ESPN has Deontay Wilder in their top 10 p4p list!

[Fenster]

They have had Wilder there for a while. No HW is even close to a top 10 guy IMO. Wilder is maybe in the top 30.

ESPN usually have pretty bad rankings. They have always loved Canelo though. Canelo at 3 is as much of a joke as Wilder being #10.

Agree with all this, and of course wilder being there is a joke. However, you can easily say that no HW ever has been close to a top ten P4P guy, unless you go back to the days when guys fought there but Weren’t close to naturally big enough and came up from much lighter weights. It’s impossible for a guy who is 6’6 200+ pounds to do the same things as a lightweight. You take any great from middleweight or below in any era and imagine they were that big but could fight the same way, nobody could have ever lived with them. The term was only invented to describe the best fighter who wasn’t a hw, and now seems to be more of a most accomplished list. Way I see it at least.

This is a modern thing... Either people today are so thick they can't grasp that Wilder and Joshua would literally murder their Floyd's and Loma's and Crawford's or it's because being the heavyweight champion no longer means most famous.

[mikeeod]

I don’t have Deontay in my top 10, BUT... he does get in the ring consistently with fighters who are over 40 pounds heavier and wins (or draws). I wonder if we aren’t holding him to an unfair standard because he’s a heavyweight? What other fighter gets in with other guys who outweigh him/them by that much??