Lol yall definitely taking what i said about "aura" and just running with it.
Example....GGG had an aura around him but once Brook, a fighter who was perceived as on a lower level than him, showed some cracks in GGG, then you noticed fighters were then more willing to speak up and wanna face em. Same with what i felt was gonna start, and probably will pre accident, with Spence after the Porter fight. Once he went life and death with Porter...notice how the vibe changed. That's ALLL I'm saying and that's not a bad thing.
Losing an aura is nothing new. It happens to a lot of fighters, especially ones that were previously unbeaten or knockout artists.
What may hurt Wilder is his own self perception may be hurt so it will hurt his confidence a lot. He wasn't the man he built himself up to be in his head, that's why he's sounding mad emotional on Instagram videos and trying to keep up the facade.
In terms of willingness of opponents to face Wilder or AJ, I agree, after a loss or knockout the opponents see it's possible and more flaws so it gives them more of a willingness to get in the ring sometimes. AJ may be able to deal with the loss better because his whole philosophy is self improvement, he knew he wasn't the finished article and had work to do to get better. Wilder thought he was invincible, now that invincibility is gone it may crush him. It shouldn't because he still has the power, but he's a very emotional individual, AJ is a lot more intelligent and logical, he looks at thinks from a philosophical place of, how can I get better? What adjustments do I have to make? Wilder started with the ridiculous excuses. Unless he can improve he's heading for more of those nights if he fights top level competition regularly, I don't think his delusion helps him because it distracts from the real thing that would help him, self improvement.
If I was Wilder, I'd use it as a wake up call, find a new team and a coach that will focus on his strengths which are the power and speed but make some strong adjustments to help his overall game to enable him to land more and not be too reliant mentally or technically on the big shots. The whole mentality has to change in my opinion, utilize the power as a strong asset, don't completely rely on it to bail you out because at top level it just won't always land. He's got away with it because he's fought low level opposition, if he was fighting Wlad, Vitali and others they would have exposed those flaws long ago. Even Haye would have given him problems, when they sparred Wilder was doing well the first few times, but Haye kind of worked his style out and started to avoid punches and start landing his own. The best thing Wilder could have done is instead of fighting such low level for so long to gradually have stepped up and up to higher levels, he would have been way more prepared. But he took too big of a leap up so got exposed.
After around 20 fights he should have been really learning and challenging himself in every fight, but he was fighting people like Oltmanns, Beck, Manswell, Greer and people like that. That's what has held him back, in his 34th fight he fought Molina, that's a a dude AJ knocked out in his 18th fight and Hrgovic just knocked out in his 10th. This is a large part of the problem, if he'd fought competition like Whyte, Wlad, Parker, Ruiz, Povetkin (rearranged it) etc, he could have really learnt something. It would have been to his benefit, but he went from Z level then eventually D/C, 1 B level and then straight to A. He was unprepared, they've managed him to create false hype rather than improve his craft and become the best fighter he could be, with his amazing power he could have been incredible if he was taught better and was challenged, you learn through experience and overcoming challenges. He got gassed off fighting fighters levels below him and then he stepped up vs a fit Fury he got exposed and destroyed. Maybe this will be a wake up call for him to finally change, we'll see.
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that's pretty soon, Wilder better work on that footwork
