Comments Thread For: The Bantamweight Division, Post-Inoue

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By Cliff Rold - The argument for best fighter in the world, regardless of weight, often has a few candidates. It's part of what makes it fun to argue about. Whenever a weight class loses someone who is genuinely part of the debate, it hurts. How much it hurts depends on what the pieces left behind do with the new opportunity. We're starting to find out what bantamweight will look like having lost one of the game's elite talents in Japan's Naoya Inoue.
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[landotter]

I mean, there is a nice mix of "so close, but not quite" veterans and "are they for real or not" youth, it is a well balanced division. Unlike the heavier classes, the only way for the lighter divisions to make money is to fight each other. It may not be an excellent division, but it could be topsy-turvy fun.

[KING S.O.G]

Moloney by close SD

[Boricua181]

We all know that Naoya Inoue, is the top dog in the lighter weight's, his brother is a decent fighter, but not as good.
The Maloney brother are both tough nose to the grind stone fighter's, who have improved a bit as their career's have progressed.
I would definitely like to see a rematch between Jason Maloney, and Emmanuel Rodriguez, just to see who's improved more since their first bout.
Before that can happen Rodriguez 21-2 (13 KO's), has got to defeat Melvin Lopez who has an outstanding record of 29-1 (19 KO's), not an easy task.
That said it is a fight that he can definitely win utilizing his excellent boxing skill's, and decent punching power.
If Rodriguez were to knockout Lopez in their up coming fight, he would be serving notice to the rest of the Bantam Weight Division, to watch out!

[aumonier]

Former world champion Nordine Oubaali (the only one who had beaten Takuma Inoue) is attempting a comeback too, but since he lost in April to joirneyman Ricardo Martinez, he will not be able to face again world class boxers in the near future.

[57Blues]

It will be an interesting fight, will it go beyound just interesting sure hope so, hoping that several fights are more then what they appear to be on the card. Yea this is a good one on paper and Maloney being in with some tuff fights and his losses have never stopped him in the past from growing from his defeats.He has the rounds he has the experience and the opponent has got skills and some power also. Could be good.

[trippleupper]

Did anyone see the Inoue vs. Solis fight?

For Moloney, third time's the charm.