If anyone had answers to give heading into the fight it was Wilder, who had run up a record with an almost vulgar ratio of fights to knockouts. Pole-axing a handful of names you would recognize, and a census of those you would not, Wilder, 33-0 (32), was expected to either bomb Stiverne out or be spectacularly exposed—and the absence of a middle ground in those outcomes speaks to just how split perception of Wilder was.
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