Wilder-Ortiz set for March 3

[p4pking]

Joshua has the better skills for sure, but Wilder does have the better jab. That combined with the range and scary right hand ensures he’d have a very good chance, IMO. It’s a fight that needs to happen

[sanatogen]

Joshua may be surprised by wilder for a couple of rounds, but he's compact enough to ride any initial storm and stop Wilder. Much younger and fresher than what Wilder has faced before.

And depending what Tyson surfaces out of his rehabilitation, he may school them both.

[Master]

Joshua may be surprised by wilder for a couple of rounds, but he's compact enough to ride any initial storm and stop Wilder. Much younger and fresher than what Wilder has faced before.

And depending what Tyson surfaces out of his rehabilitation, he may school them both.

Tyson will be past it by the time he is ready.

[Alpha]

Wilder should have been behind on the cards after 9. He weathered the storm, Ortiz may have punched himself out in the 8th and 9th. The extra time at the start of the 8th was sus, Wilder can hit tho and he recorded the voctory over a very capable, credible opponent.

[powerpuncher]

I won’t be surprised on any outcome for a Wilder and AJ fight. I can easily see a KO for either guy or I can see both guys being very cautious and either one winning a decision

[Master]

I won’t be surprised on any outcome for a Wilder and AJ fight. I can easily see a KO for either guy or I can see both guys being very cautious and either one winning a decision

That covers everything but the draw.

[Batman]

I won’t be surprised on any outcome for a Wilder and AJ fight. I can easily see a KO for either guy or I can see both guys being very cautious and either one winning a decision

That covers everything but the draw.

I think that's what he was getting at.

[X]

Interesting and entertaining fight. Wilder is certainly fun to watch and is much more charismatic than AJ.

We learned a few things;

- Wlder is very fit with a good engine and excellent stamina. Only a guy at prime fitness would have recovered so quickly after his torrid round when he was bashed from pillar to post for over a minute by a very heavy handed puncher.

- he has an excellent jab, good hand speed and a very awkward style. If you were preparing to fight him, where would you get sparring partners who fight like that??

- Wilder showed good composure, a good chin and a really really good heart. He closed the show when he ne did to.

- a solid fighter with decent, if unspectacular technique, can outbox Wilde handily. Especially if he has enough power to keep Wilder respectful. Ironically, if Ortiz had not hurt Wilder and shot his bolt trying to finish him, he might have continued to outbox Wilder ...... and the joke scorecards would have been a black eye to the sport yet again. There was no way Wilder was in front so clearly at the time of the stoppage.

- Wilder is a magnificent athlete, but he is very light for a modern heavyweight. AJ is about two or three stone heavier, and I think that would be too much for Wilder. Mike Tyson was about the same weight in his prime ..... and (in my view), prime Tyson wrecks Wilder.

- Ortiz' age caught up with him. If he was ten years younger in there he would likely have won that fight. He couldn't muster up the energy to be really explosive when Wilder was hurt and it looks to me that it was also exhaustion that beat him. 38 (or older) is an old man in the boxing ring. Looks like the years of being frozen and out and avoided have succeeded in denying King Kong a legitimate heavyweigh title shot. He started too late at age 30, and when he was 33 the top two heavyweights were the Klitschko brothers. Not sure he would ever have beaten Vitali, but he could have hurt Wlad.