i know i know protect yourself at all times blah blah

but youd think zhang would want to win in a much more dignified way than a cheap sucker punch while the guy is (stupidly) whining to the ref about god knows what.



>He got KO'd in the 5th round yesterday by 41 yr old Chinese
>heavyweight Zhilei Zhang. Zhang is a puncher with good IQ, so
>there's no shame in it. He had more amateur success than
>Wilder as well, so it wasn't AT ALL surprising (I picked Zhang
>to win by stoppage).
>Wilder has been an overachiever. He started boxing very late
>in life and went on to win an Olympic Bronze medal. Got into
>boxing to make money for his daughter's medical condition and
>made plenty of it, thanks to Al Haymon and the PBC diet that
>constantly fed him opponents who were tailor made for him.
>Eventually, he began to feel he was invincible and wanted to
>fight Fury.


i still feel like he won the fight and the ref should have called it off after fury got KOd, and got a generous 10 count and allowed to rise like the undertaker but thats all in the past now.





Even after defeat, he couldn't face his
>limitations or failures and fired the trainer who got him
>where he was along with publicly disparaging the man and
>accusing him of foul play. He's only gone downhill from there.
>His punch output and aggression is lacking to the point that
>he lost a decision to Joseph Parker without putting up a
>fight. Now he get stopped by Zhang and is ready to hang it
>up.


firing mark breland was stupid as hell on his behalf, got rid of the man who got you were you are to replace him w a motivational speaker


still tho, great career. salute to bronze bomber. I feel like he could still get one more payday in Saudi vs someone but the days of fighting for belts are over