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deontay's power always seemed overrated to me. there's a reason he targeted tyson on the comeback trail over aj
"... targeted Tyson on the comeback trail over AJ..."

Help me understand here. Aren't comebacks usually after you've lost, or had a down in your career? If my memory serves me correctly, Wilder didn't lose until his second Fury fight. If my memory serves me correctly even further, it was Fury who jumped in and put an end to the shenanigans between Wilder and AJ where each side continuously claimed the other side was ducking. This is all well documented and was talked about ad nauseum in the forum.

To be clear, nobody on here disputes the fact that Wilder's fundamentals have always been flawed. That he built his early resume on inferior opposition. That he had a huge right hand and little else.

Forget his two fights against the heavily avoided Luis Ortiz. Oh... he was too old? You mean like Zhang old? Oops, I forgot. Zhang is older than Luis Ortiz was at that time. Yet he could be in line for a title shot.
deontay targeted tyson who was on the comeback trail. it was a good choice because tyson hadn't looked good in his two fights back after over two & a half years out & he still held some type of claim to being the man that beat the man. tyson should have won that fight once it got to the cards. deontay's team couldn't see that if he wasn't able to beat tyson at that point he wasn't beating a better prepared tyson in the rematch. luis was either off the peds when he fought deontay or on heart/ blood pressure medication which lead to the fight being cancelled originally. deontay even admitted that he turned down bigger money offered to fight aj to take the tyson rematch. i've always felt aj would have beaten deontay & like i said deontay's power seemed overrated to me