Detony "Tomato Can Conquer" Windmiller is a brutal KO waiting to happen.
The HW division is weak as it is, prospects or not.
To be fair, Wilder needs to step up his competition big time, but he IS still pretty raw. His amateur background was very shallow and he didn't turn pro until he was 23 (he's only 27 right now).
He shouldn't be in w/ an Arreola yet at all, he's not ready for it, but at the same time he isn't going to get the experience he needs fighting all these fat pieces of sh*t that go down from one punch. Wilder needs to fight a guy with limited skills, but is durable and will actually go rounds with him for once.
The HW division seems to be getting a little better at least, w/ prospects (or contenders for some) like Fury, Pulev, Wilder, Banks, Jennings, Arreola, etc....
David Price, despite getting knocked out and having a glass chin, he has a lot of firepower on offense so the combination of the two should make for fun fights on his behalf.
There are good fights to be made, even if the fighters aren't even close to as good as they were back in the day. If we can't get any great fighters, hopefully we'll get some fun fights.
By fighting, like I call them Tomato Cans, a good prospect does not gain the valuable experience needed to teach his prospect. It is not to say what you would want to throw your fighter with a top ten contender right away, but a pretty descent one tat could show him the ropes for a few rounds. In today's boxing the only thing that an undefeated record brings in is cash for the promoter of the fight. It is like that 1956 movie "The Harder They Fall," starring Humphrey Bogart and Max Baer sr. It was a story in a round about way of Primo Carnera,, how he fought last rate fighters that would guarantee their fighter, Toro Moreno to stay unbeaten. When he fights the champ, played by Baer, he gets demolished including a broken jaw. This is what they also did to Gerry Cooney, they fed him the Retirement Community Bunch, to keep and pad his record to build up the gate against WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes, in June 1982. Holmes destroyed his over matched opponent. The prospects these days have to be brought up slowly and little by little they move up, fighting better fighters. Same thing also happened to Duane Bobick back in May 1977 against Ken Norton, he was stopped in round 1, he was in over his head. A defeat here and there might be good for a promising student of the game. In 1957, they threw 1956 Olympic Champion Pete Raedemacher against World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, who stopped Pete in round 6 of his first pro fight.
The heavyweight division needs to bring back David Haye.
The heavyweight division today is an absolute joke.
Some of the old best heavyweights were said to be way past their prime at 30. Fighters like Holyfield and Frazier were called old fighters by the time they were 30.
But these days all the prospects like David Price and Deontay Wilder are all hovering around 30 and saying they need more experience and want to get better....while fighting bums. It's an absolute joke.
And plus the only thing fighters and promoters are looking for is to keep an undefeated record squeaky clean before a title shot. That's probably one reason why every top rated fighter is fighting bums.
