Comments Thread For: Crawford: I'm Leaning Towards Fulton [Over Inoue]; Not Only Bigger, Stronger, He Has Skills, Too

[Knuckle sandwich]

Respect to fulton, I like both fighters skill set, boxing is winning with this fight

Fair comment.

I just don't see what fulton brings to the table to beat Inoue, Inoue and his team are extremely smart, he boxes with intelligents, he will break down fulton, 4lbs is nothing, Inoues power and timing ends this fight, he is also capable of moving up?

[SteveM]

You must mean because Fulton is more skillled, slick, and diverse in his punch placement and defense. Or maybe because Fulton has actually fought a bigger array of styles and came out victorious. I refuse to believe that you would overlook these things to go to the shallow minded thought process that runs rampant on this site that any fool could pull out when they would like to be accepted by the ignorance club.

What you say is true and justified. Except, we had this conversation a couple of months back - there's many black fans on this site who will come out and always root for a black boxer against another race. Maybe Crawford is like that. Maybe not. It is what it is. Same deal with Mexican fighters and some white fans going for white boxers. To me, that is BS - I root for whoever I like regardless of colour and there are many others of all colours who do the same. Everyone's different I guess.

[SteveM]

Fair comment.

I just don't see what fulton brings to the table to beat Inoue, Inoue and his team are extremely smart, he boxes with intelligents, he will break down fulton, 4lbs is nothing, Inoues power and timing ends this fight, he is also capable of moving up?

Fulton brings exceptional defensive skills and enough pop to keep Inoue honest. If - and a big if - Fulton can keep his concentration for 12 rounds, tie up Inoue when necessary (which tires the smaller guy) then he can make this a close fight. I looked at the Figueroa fight - very difficult to defend against Brandon - he has a whirling dervish offence. Inoue's offence is slicker but more predictable as he is is more orthodox. Inoue still the favourite but Fulton not out of it.

[Knuckle sandwich]

Fulton brings exceptional defensive skills and enough pop to keep Inoue honest. If - and a big if - Fulton can keep his concentration for 12 rounds, tie up Inoue when necessary (which tires the smaller guy) then he can make this a close fight. I looked at the Figueroa fight - very difficult to defend against Brandon - he has a whirling dervish offence. Inoue's offence is slicker but more predictable as he is is more orthodox. Inoue still the favourite but Fulton not out of it.

Inoue doesn't like being tied up by his opponents, he is also very good at not allowing his opponents to do this, that's why he knocks out fulton, Fulton will eat precision body shots, fall behind on points, take to many risks to catch up, gets stopped in 10

[57Blues]

You must mean because Fulton is more skillled, slick, and diverse in his punch placement and defense. Or maybe because Fulton has actually fought a bigger array of styles and came out victorious. I refuse to believe that you would overlook these things to go to the shallow minded thought process that runs rampant on this site that any fool could pull out when they would like to be accepted by the ignorance club.

No i just mean Fulton is going to loose the fight simple as that.

[Rebelrbg]

What you say is true and justified. Except, we had this conversation a couple of months back - there's many black fans on this site who will come out and always root for a black boxer against another race. Maybe Crawford is like that. Maybe not. It is what it is. Same deal with Mexican fighters and some white fans going for white boxers. To me, that is BS - I root for whoever I like regardless of colour and there are many others of all colours who do the same. Everyone's different I guess.

Exactly, but to assume that anyone is rooting for or leaning towards a fighter winning purely because of ethnicity, without that person stating so or proving the pattern to be true, is just bringing someone into the ignorance of the wide cast net of many posters on this site. Crawford stated why he's giving Fulton the edge, why is that not enough? Why does he have to be brought into the ignorance of the one questioning what he believes?

[Rebelrbg]

No i just mean Fulton is going to loose the fight simple as that.

Then just state that rather than implying an underlying reason why Crawford is leaning towards Fulton, especially when he just gave his reasoning behind his pick.

[Madison Boxing]

fulton isnt one of them 7 stone ,minimumweight mongolian fighters that inoue has been ko'ing.... i see inoue getting exposed and hitting air

[Madison Boxing]

Fulton brings exceptional defensive skills and enough pop to keep Inoue honest. If - and a big if - Fulton can keep his concentration for 12 rounds, tie up Inoue when necessary (which tires the smaller guy) then he can make this a close fight. I looked at the Figueroa fight - very difficult to defend against Brandon - he has a whirling dervish offence. Inoue's offence is slicker but more predictable as he is is more orthodox. Inoue still the favourite but Fulton not out of it.

inoues power is a myth not hard to look like mike tyson against C level guys/40 year olds, weve seen this all before these so called boogeyman monster punchers and they get found out against a good slick boxer

[Motofan]

I’m a big fan of the Monster but this fight is a toss up in my mind.