Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: Inoue is a Tremendous Fighter...Probably Better Than Pacquiao Was

[Combat Talk Radio]

Here's what we do know. And ALL of you know this.

Manny Pacquiao's WORST weight class was bantamweight/super bantamweight. He was already struggling with weight when Singsurat stopped him.

Naoya Inoue is stronger than ever at the weight.

You know what would happen if they fought at super bantamweight:

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The problem is, some of you are measuring based on featherweight/jr. lightweight Manny, which is flawed. Be consistent. Bantam vs. Bantam - Inoue WASHES this man.

[IronDanHamza]

Arum has the same script for every fighter he promotes

Inoue is awesome but Pacquaio is in a different league, at least at the moment.

[r.burgundy]

He is a more skilled boxer for sure. Inoue is a Classic boxer puncher while manny was a brawler/boxer.
if Manny couldn't overwhelm you he generally looked avg,which is why he struggled with every single boxer who actually used movement

[Spray_resistant]

Inoue is pretty close to the total package you want to see in a fighter as you can get and he is building his list of accomplishments. In terms of attributes and skills he is much better than Pac, accomplishments? not near Pac yet but Pac's book is written and concluded while we're still in the middle of Inoue's story.

[Jsmooth9876]

Here we go again with that same line he uses. Floyd was the greatest ever until he left TR. So was ODLH. Look at almost how they wrecked Bud's career.

There's nothing they could do when the 147 guys at PBC didn't want any part of Crawford. There just wasn't many options elsewhere. We saw what happened when the guys finally did fight him. They just prolonged the inevitable

[STREET CLEANER]

There's nothing they could do when the 147 guys at PBC didn't want any part of Crawford. There just wasn't many options elsewhere. We saw what happened when the guys finally did fight him. They just prolonged the inevitable

Arum dangled a Pac and a Taylor fight that he never got.

[Jsmooth9876]

Arum dangled a Pac and a Taylor fight that he never got.

Well they signed a deal with Pac and Crawford to fight and then the money was never put up by the investors in Abu-Dhabi so it never happened and Crawford moved on to the Porter fight. Let's be honest, PBC had Spence, Porter, Garcia and Thurman over there and none of them were about to fight Crawford at any point and PBC wasn't going to let him beat all of them until they exhausted all their options on their side first.
As far as Taylor goes, he's been talking about moving up for like 3 years and still hasn't and we saw what happened to him against Teo. He should have moved up for a Crawford fight and at least got beat up for little more $$

[Teetotaler69]

Here we go again with that same line he uses. Floyd was the greatest ever until he left TR. So was ODLH. Look at almost how they wrecked Bud's career.

How the hell did they almost wreck buds career? He left top rank as a 2 division champion and lineal at 140 not to mention all the paydays he got.

[MulaKO]

Sounding a little sour there Bobfather

[The Big Dunn]

How the hell did they almost wreck buds career? He left top rank as a 2 division champion and lineal at 140 not to mention all the paydays he got.

By not being able to make this fight.

Fishnets, Floyd and Manny all made their biggest payday away from Bob just like Crawford.

If youre at or near the top of the sport, leave TR before Bob does you dirty.