If Wilder unifies the division, it’s hard not to put him in the HOF for just that alone. I say that not that I think he is good enough to deserve it, but that the HOF has a lot of people who don’t deserve to be in there. I know that people will disagree, but Wlad Klitschko is mainly in the HOF because of a weak division. I think if he were in a good era of HWs, he wouldn’t have been that impressive. He would have won some but lost the big fights. His record and accomplishments put him in though.
If Wilder beats Ortiz, Fury, and AJ/Ruiz convincingly, and unifies the division, it’s hard to keep him out just off the sheer fact that he would be an undefeated unified HW champion. It would be more off accomplishment than how good he actually was. Again, I don’t think that Wlad has any really good wins. I would say that he didn’t beat anyone better than Fury (he actually got beat every round basically by Fury). I’m not even sure who he beat better than AJ.
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