
Originally Posted by
powerpuncher

Originally Posted by
Freedom
Joshua will become the first in many years to unify ALL the heavyweight titles, if Wilder fights him.
Although I think Wilder and his management are very afraid of Joshua, the potential money is so much that eventually they'll probably the fight and cash out.
Afraid? Wilder has been calling out AJ forever. Whether or not he wins doesn’t matter. Nothing Wilder has done makes me believe he is afraid.
Wilder talks a lot, but it's just talk. He priced himself out against Joshua, and demanded the fight be in the USA where it would make less money, which means he had no intentions of fighting him. Joshua's management offer four times Wilder's highest payday to date, but Wilder demanded more.
He's carefully avoided all the decent heavyweights for years.
On the way up a few years, he was matched against guys he could easily KO, usually much smaller men. He fought old
former middleweights and light heavyweights who became fat with middle age. Even Kevin Johnson said Wilder refused to fight him, and instead chose a chinny journeyman at the time! Wilder's WBC title defenses continue the pattern: he fought poor completely shot Arreola, old Stiverne, old overweight Ortiz (whom he ducked 3 years ago and again in 2017 before finally getting up the courage to fight the old man this year) and chinny Szpilka while avoiding decent prime guys like Takem, Parker, Whyte, Miller, and Povetkin, as well as physically fit older fighters like Klitschko and Mansour.
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