Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue: I Have Room To Improve, I'll Get Stronger at 122

[IceTrayDaGang]

Agreed. I love how they had Tapales there for the fight and set up the unification.

Seems like The plan was for him to fight the winner all along. Love that. Need more of this.

is this one of the fighter that will give inoue problems with his 72-74 reach?

[shawnkemp804]

I called it many times before that if fulton can't take inoues power it will be over very soon and it did turn out that way. But inoue is not only about power he's got great boxing skills.This is the guy mostly black Americans were branding him as hypejob. Those people would be crying for months now.

Look another racist finding away to bring up race. Tons of black people supported Inoue and thought he would win. If anything racist like you only wanted Fulton to lose because he is black.

[eco1]

Unless the opponents come in with a *******, I don't see them beating Inoue

[_Rexy_]

So if bud beats spence. 2 time undisputed means nothing?

Heard you

It means something. It just doesn't put him past Inoue. 4 division champion, and has never had a close fight. Spence is past it anyways. Fight should have happened three or four damn years ago.

[_Rexy_]

Look another racist finding away to bring up race. Tons of black people supported Inoue and thought he would win. If anything racist like you only wanted Fulton to lose because he is black.

Every black fan I saw on twitter pick Inoue was immediately called an Uncle Tom or a Coon.

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Look another racist finding away to bring up race. Tons of black people supported Inoue and thought he would win. If anything racist like you only wanted Fulton to lose because he is black.

The black fragility is strong with this one

[crimsonfalcon07]

With a win saturday, Spence would have beat more quality fighters than inoue..

So I disagree

bud, ugas, Porter, brook> donaire, butler, fulton, Rodriguez

As I said in another thread,

I don't see how Spence winning puts him above Inoue. His resume just isn't there.

He's 7-0(4) in title fights compared to 20-0(18).
He's beaten 5 world champions, most of whom were coming up from lower weights. When was the last time he fought the champ as a smaller guy? Inoue has beaten I think 12 world champs. In both cases I'm not counting the IBO champs both guys have beaten, or guys with secondary titles. Spence's best win was probably Porter, and he got a split in that. Inoue has dominated everyone. His hardest fight was against Donaire, who will likely be a first ballot HOF, and who has further opportunities to build his own legacy on Saturday, and he won that conclusively, fighting for 10 rounds with a broken orbital and nose, and then destroyed Donaire in the rematch.

Just seems like a pretty big gulf in resume to surmount. Maybe Bud could, as the smaller guy and previous undisputed champion also. He's got wins against 9 champions, and 17-0(15) in title fights. If he dominates and stops Spence, that's a strong case for #1. Usyk beating Fury would be a good case also.

Can you explain why Spence's wins are worth so much more than anyone else's? It's never made sense to me.

[_Rexy_]

Can you explain why Spence's wins are worth so much more than anyone else's? It's never made sense to me.

It's the same as it's always been for Inoue, just like Chocolatito, Ioka, and other guys in these lower weight classes.


Fans in North America have never heard of them. So the automatic assumption is "I can't pronounce that persons name. They're a bum."

[boxingitis]

Until Saturday

Of next year.

[Oregonian]

I don’t think a Spence win puts him at #1 p4p, but if Bud wins that makes him a 2 time undisputed champ in 2 weight divisions, with a win over a p4p level fighter in Spence. A win for Crawford elevates him to the p4p throne, Spence has to show more by moving up

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Calzaghe fought at 168 his whole career. So I suppose “he didn’t show more”?
And no, beating a past his prime Roy Jones was NOT “showing more”
Malignaggi won a belt at 140 and 147 so he’s better than Spence because he “showed more”?
Clearly Heavyweights should never be spoken of as great because they NEVER “showed more” by moving to another division?

This idea that a person has to move up in weight to prove he’s “more” is yet another example of moving goalposts when one does not like another.