Comments Thread For: BoxingScene.com's 2023 Fighter of The Year: Naoya Inoue

[boxing IQ]

If there was a prize for most impressive performance of the year then Bud would have won it - but it was dominating a NEW division in less than a year that did it for Naoya - I don't believe anybody has EVER done that before.

It's definitely possible. But I guarantee no one's ever knocked out an undefeated top 5 p4p unified champ to become the 1st male boxer to be undisputed at 2 weight classes.

[hugh grant]

It's definitely possible. But I guarantee no one's ever knocked out an undefeated top 5 p4p unified champ to become the 1st male boxer to be undisputed at 2 weight classes.

People best pfp fighters all the time even when they're underdogs. Bud beating spence is no big deal, it took bud 5 years too, good boxingscene could see that.
The fact Inoue wasn't underdog stepping up another division shows Inoue s no1 pfp

[hugh grant]

It's not announced - it's updated on a monthly basis or adhoc basis. In a good year where all the top fighters fight it might change 2/3 times.

Oh I see. They got bud no1 last time I checked so now Might be good time to update it

[boxing IQ]

People best pfp fighters all the time even when they're underdogs. Bud beating spence is no big deal, it took bud 5 years too, good boxingscene could see that.
The fact Inoue wasn't underdog stepping up another division shows Inoue s no1 pfp

Lol thanks for the laugh.

[harry-greb]

I would have favoured Bud, but can't complain with Inoue. He had a fantastic year.

[hugh grant]

Lol thanks for the laugh.

Why laughing?. Pfp fighters get best all time, no bigbdeal..lomachenko got beat, donaire got beat, rigondeuax got beat.

[Smash]

pac robbed floyd for fighter of the decade and now this, the system is rigged

[puroylan]

2 undisputed crowns at different weight classes in one year deserves it. Bud should be second or okay with first too but I gave the fighter of the year to the Monster too. If Bud get lucky and squeaked by Canelo this year, then he'll be FOTY again.

[Robi13]

Well deserved

[Boro]

It's definitely possible. But I guarantee no one's ever knocked out an undefeated top 5 p4p unified champ to become the 1st male boxer to be undisputed at 2 weight classes.

There has only ever really been a select few multi weight undisputed titlists pre 4 belt era and that's the likes of Holyfield, Armstrong, Tiger and Griffith who ironically actually fought each other, so stating something obvious like "i can guarantee blah blah to become 2x undisputed" is redundant.

You should ask yourself why was spence considered P4P, he beat on PBC hypejobs...

Porter lost all of his big fights including the Ugas fight despite the result.

Danny Garcia hasn't done anything at 47.

Ugas no one really rates and we all know it should've been Pacman in there but Spence faked his injury rather than get embarrassed.

We know Spence actively avoid one time when he was one time and not once upon a time, the one guy at PBC who was a legit threat.

Lastly Brook who wasn't with PBC but he never proved anything after he beat Porter, in fact even his long time trainers and coach admit his career went to shít after winning the belt and he also took a beating off GGG just before the Spence fight.

Realistically Spence had smoke blown up his ass because he was rumoured to give Floyd a hard time in sparring that's it, he shouldn't be a considered a P4P talent when he hasn't moved through divisions, he's a known weight bully and his resume is questionable if you look at it properly...