Comments Thread For: Paul Butler Offers No Excuses, Gives High Praise To Naoya Inoue

[dan-b]

You're rétarded, I wanted him to fight like he intends to win not like a shíthouse looking to survive is the biggest fight of his life and quitting as soon as he gets the opportunity.

You need to stop responding to me in general you're too thick to comprehend what's being said almost every time.

The usual dullard response to a performance like that is "he came to survive the 12 rounds". It's a cliche comment. Butler's a pure boxer and his plan was very likely always to take it late and see if Inoue slowed down. As it happens, he didn't.

But of course, we know you could beat both of them, so we should defer to your authority here.

[JOITATS]

butler is a solid fighter. he had a gameplan, play defensive and look for those rare opportunities to counter in between.
but he realised, it was much harder than he expected. he remained on his gameplan, never took much of any risk, and basically got shut down.

butler realized inoue is at a different level. but he stayed within his own. which is why it turned out to be a dull fight. it is what it is.

[Silence]

The “Monster” is a true champion, but he has to fight the elite to become elite, until that happens, it’s the media’s high favor that keeps that “monster” title on him. If it was some other champ, fighting a Butler class fighter, he’d be torn apart by the medía.

There ain't much elite in his division. He already beat Donaire the elite of elites twice.

[Damn Wicked]

Butler's a pure boxer and his plan was very likely always to take it late and see if Inoue slowed down. As it happens, he didn't.

I believe that was an important part of his strategy.

Am I the only one who was surprised at Butler's skill and tenacity? I didn't expect him to be that good.

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Ignorant in his defense, eh? Yet people are in a big rush to put him at #1 P4P.

I personally think he needs to show a little more, against better quality of opposition, before we crown him.

[SteveM]

Ignorant in his defense, eh? Yet people are in a big rush to put him at #1 P4P.

I personally think he needs to show a little more, against better quality of opposition, before we crown him.

Really? Donaire is a shoe-in for the HOF and before anyone says he was old Donaire won a belt after their first fight. Inoue also beat Manny Rodriguez who is a very capable titlist in his own right.
Which HOF has Crawford beaten? Not Postol. I'd say Postol is on Rodriguez level - ditto Shawn Porter.
What about Usyk? His best wins are Breidis, Gassiev and Joshua twice - currently none of them are getting in the HOF unless AJ goes through some miraculous transformation.

[ShoulderRoll]

Really? Donaire is a shoe-in for the HOF and before anyone says he was old Donaire won a belt after their first fight. Inoue also beat Manny Rodriguez who is a very capable titlist in his own right.
Which HOF has Crawford beaten? Not Postol. I'd say Postol is on Rodriguez level - ditto Shawn Porter.
What about Usyk? His best wins are Breidis, Gassiev and Joshua twice - currently none of them are getting in the HOF unless AJ goes through some miraculous transformation.

Donaire was almost 40 years old. Just like Omar Narvaez. That's just reality.

Emmanuel Rodriguez won a vacant belt by beating Paul Butler (who failed to make weight.) That's far from impressive to me. And it's inferior to Shawn Porter who at least has wins over Devin Alexander, Danny Garcia, Adrien Broner, and the Cuban Yordenis Ugas.

Usyk unified the cruiserweight division along with taking 3 of the 4 belts at heavyweight against a much bigger man. All on the road. That's a pretty good run historically already.

I'm not a fan of Dud Crawford's resume so I won't bother to defend it.