Comments Thread For: Shakur Stevenson on Naoya Inoue: "He's a Helluva Fighter, Tell Him Come Up and Fight Me"

[BenjaminLinus]

Inoue ****s Stevenson up.

[WholeSoul75]

Remembering cool boy saying the exact thing on the Tyson podcast..more like he better catch up. Haha like how everyone is an Asian genetics analyst now too. Google bard will tell you natural weight average of men his age in his country, if you know how to prompt correctly...I wouldn't be shocked if the monster naturally can complete at 135. Monster plan for his career is more calculated than Pacquiao's. Excited to see how this plays out

[messi807]

Because literally until he got up to 118 and started to rake in money no one wanted to fight him for unification.

Inoue got his first belt back in 2014 at age 20 on his 6th match as a pro, but couldn't secure a unification fight so he ended up jumping directly to 115 where Narvarez who had a belt at the time was willing to fight him a year later. As a result the Chocolatito/Estrada didn't happen, but instead he knocked out Narvaez at R2 on his first match at 115 to get his second belt. However possibly as a result of his stunning debut at 115, he couldn't get a unification to save his life afterward. He ended up staying at 115 for three years doing seven defenses in the mean time, until he decided to go up to bantam and go for a third division instead of wait for an unification match that didn't seem to happen. In 2018 he went up and fought McDonnell then won WBSS and came out with two belts, fought Donaire again for the third, and ended up getting Butler for the undisputed because shortly before that Casimero due to his problem got stripped of the belt. Which comes down too...

Casimero unification was supposed to happen on April 2020 until COVID cancelled it. Inoue would still have fought Casimero when he went for bantam undisputed, as after Donaire on June 2022 for third belt he would've gone for Casimero's belt. However in April of 2022 Casimero got his belt stripped and Butler got it, and Casimero went up to 122 leaving Inoue to end up fighting Butler instead. As a result after clearing out 118 Inoue went immediately up to 122, because there literally was no one left that was enticing in 118.

At 122 after destroying the no. 1 ranked guy as a starter, he is going to go undisputed then plan to take out MJ/Nery/Casimero before going up. Tapales is only getting a chance because MJ somehow lost to him a few month before Fulton match, and just to show he still could've gotten undisputed even if Tapales didn't luck out. Casimero and Nery are more of a personal grudge combined with the best of whats left in 122, and not sure if Goodman will get a chance, but if he wins an eliminater he might get a match too.

Only worry I have is that Casimero looked rather unimpressive against Oguni and might have fallen down the priority rankings.

Yeah I'm excited for the fights at 122. I don't think Casimero beats Inoue.. I think Fulton is slighlty better but it'll be a very entertaining grudge match. I think Inoue's work at 122 will be most significant W's in his career

[F l i c k e r]

Shakur has made himself a clown these days.

[crimsonfalcon07]

His trainer said Inoue’s dream fight was Tank

You got that backwards. Tank Davis said Inoue was HIS dream fight. Where did Inoue or his dad ever say that? Floyd has said that he wants Tank to fight Inoue. Tank has said that. All these 135 lb guys calling out a guy 3 divisions down. It's ******. They're just chasing his greatness because he's the Canelo of the lower divisions, but they're not willing to face Canelo themselves. Maybe Tank should fight Crawford at Crawford's preferred weight.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Jesus where do you guys get your info, Inoue and his father have never mentioned Tank or any desire to fight him. Inoue's promoter was the one who mentioned the Tank fight might be a possibility as Inoue moves up in weight.

This also isn't true. Tank's promoter came up with that. Bob Arum said:

“I mean, it’s wonderful but at this particular point, it’s 122 pound guy against a 140 pound guy.
Inoue is great with guys his own size or guys a little bigger, but at some particular point the size really matters. That’s why they have these classifications for.”

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[messi807]

You got that backwards. Tank Davis said Inoue was HIS dream fight. Where did Inoue or his dad ever say that? Floyd has said that he wants Tank to fight Inoue. Tank has said that. All these 135 lb guys calling out a guy 3 divisions down. It's ******. They're just chasing his greatness because he's the Canelo of the lower divisions, but they're not willing to face Canelo themselves. Maybe Tank should fight Crawford at Crawford's preferred weight.

His promoter said it.. not his trainer. My mistake. But still

[Airtioteclint]

First tank now Stevenson? This some kind of new trend calling out smaller fighters now? I bet all the supporters didn't say nothing when bud said there's weight classes for a reason. I wonder why...

[-Kev-]

That’s a crazy ass jump and pointless right now.

Shakur moving up to 147 right now, would be less dangerous than Inoue moving up from 122 to 135.

[crimsonfalcon07]

His promoter said it.. not his trainer. My mistake. But still

His promoter still didn't say it... Tank's did. Arum, eg Inoue's promoter, says it's not going to happen because weight classes exist for a reason. Nobody on Inoue's side is chasing Tank. The clout chasing is all on the other side.