Bobbyptsd wrote:30% is so specific. Did you run it through one of those supercomputers the Dutch are so famous for developing?
We got nice servers, a nice network, things like that.
But not really nice computers actually, next to that, Bill Gates still dominates entire Europe when it comes to Microsoft software.
The reason we got nice servers is because the Netherlands is really crowded, we got 408 people on every square kilometer on avarage in the entire country, America for example got 32,5 people on every square kilometer on avarage.
That means that our internet is about 12 times as busy, so our netwerk should also be about 12 times as strong, just to simply keep up.
Now at moment most Dutch people don't use much internet (when they are asleep for example) the few people awake their internet is much more powerfull as the avarage American network.
The combination of how rich/poor a county is combined with the amount of people every square kilometer is about the keyword to countrys with fast internet, even countrys where you don't expect it from, like South Korea or Israel prove that.
When it actually comes to computers, the Americans and Japanese guys still beat the Dutch easely, simply because they have a far bigger budget, and are willing to use it.
It's just like rockets and stuff like that, in fact the Europe got a far better climate as America for it (never tornado's, never extreme temperatures), but we just don't use our budget for it. I even think America could consider starting their projects inside Europe, it would safe some money for them because of the better weather conditions.
The 30% is an estimation out of my head, but also based on recent history, take a look at Cunningham for example.
According to boxrec he's rank 5 of America, in fact, he never lost against any American at all (Mansour, Tarver, not just bums).
At the same time he lost against all the Europeans he ever faced, while only one of them ended in a KO loss.
Things like that prove it isn't just quality, but just the American/European style that makes the difference.
In fact European heavyweight boxers have far lower KOratings as American boxers, this is partly why the American heavyweight division is less predictable, they all go for the KO, unlike Europeans.
Also note, that Jennings for example has proved much more as Wilder has done at this point, for me Jennings is still the best of America at this point (and I'm keeping an eye on Washington for the future).
Jennings won against Artur Szpilka, who's a far better as any boxer Wilder ever faced, just like Mike Perez, especially at the time, and according to the rankings, so is Andrey Fedosev (because he fought a lot of experienced and active boxers).
Even Jason Gavern, one of the very few Americans with European boxing experience that fought Wilder, clearly gave Wilder a lot more problems as anyone ever expected, just watch that fight on youtube and note that this fight was done while he was out of shape and wasn't prepared for this fight. Eventually he actually wasn't really KOed at all, he was just tired and litterally gave the fight away (and that was just 3 fights ago!) and Jason actually had quite a bad record thanks to all the high level guys he fought.
Things like that prove for me that Wilder simply isn't ready for the top.
I've also seen the Duhaupas-Teper fight and Teper is ranked 8 at this moment according to boxrec, now if you watch the fight it's actually a really dirty ugly fight and Duhaupas really wasn't that bad.
As a latest thing, I'd like to say that Wilder really should watch out for hitting the wall.
Big, hard working guys without a gram of fat on their body (like Wilder during a long boxing match) can hit the wall, marathon runners often got this just before the finish, just look on youtube on "hitting the wall".
That was exactly what happened with Wladimir Klitschko in his younger years.
http://boxrec.com/boxer/7035
In his first lose ever, he was boxing a lot, remarkeble to see is that he was actually 7 pounds lighter as in his boxing match three weeks before.
Wladimir was probably ill just before the match, but felt ready for it anyway.
During the match he simply ran out of energy and lost the fight, you can still look the fight up on youtube and judge for yourself, he wasn't KO, he just forgot to take breakfast and couldn't stand on his legs any more after 20 minits of boxing.
Two months later, hist first match after, he gained 13 pounds again.
Against Brewster exactly the same thing happened, there are rumour that he was poisoned or something like that, but I think he was simply hitting the wall in that fight as well.
After Brewster Klitschko never used more energy as needed to win any of his rounds, he later said that Brewster was a turning point in his life for him.
Anyway, this is a thing that could happen to Wilder as well, for Duhaupas this chance is far lower, first of all because he fought more longer matches and is prepared for that, and second of all because he simply got a bit of fat on his body.
In the end, Wilder is longer, stronger, got bigger lungs, but no fat, less experience, isn't used to pointscoring instead of going for the KO, Duhaupas will show him an entire new style of boxing and despite Duhaupas is worser in every single way, he will still achieve the maximum result he got with his body.
