Sources say Inoue and Nery have signed for a title bout in Tokyo

[IceTrayDaGang]

Inoue P4P # 1.

Been calling it for a while.

The Nery fight is a gift to his Japanese fans.
Redemption for the b.s done to his countryman. Twice.

I remember laughing as I watched Japanese fans yelling " ch!nga tu madre " at Nery as he walked out for the second Yamanaka fight.
Well deserved.

Inoue KO 6.

nah.. just like his fans said, he cant sell here in the US... so no, he's not the p4p #1... according to his fans, nobody knows him outside of japan.

[Citizen Koba]

stop it!!! there's plenty of BIG fights in the US that were sold out!! why you acting like floyd vs pac never happened?

I think he's drawing the distinction between casual fans that only know a few big names in the sport and those who follow all the divisons and follow the sport internationally. Most US fans fit into the former catagory. Fights like Many vs Floyd have mass appeal and success because both their names had transcended the sport and entered the mainsteam in the US.

And he's right - Inoue vs Nery ain't filling any stadiums anywhere outside Japan.

[ELPacman]

Do Mexicans have the highest number of fighters who tested positive/did some illegal shenanigans in fights? I swear. Though really, what Nery did against, Shinsuke Yamanaka was so shameful. The dude was about to make history if he beat Nery. Who knows, maybe Nery could of still won that fight without the assistance, but the fact that he cheated and stripped Shinsuke away from making history should be a bigger crime. I would of taken away Nery's entire purse after that. I'm glad he's banned from Japan, they don't need a POS fighter like him in their country that could cause potential death of their own.

Granted, I would LOVE to see Inoue beat the piss out of him. It's trash opponents like the Margarito's an Nery's of the world that deserve all the brutal beatdowns that they can receive.

It's funny we would never talk about Canelo that way because those were just tainted steaks, nothing more.

[IceTrayDaGang]

I think he's drawing the distinction between casual fans that only know a few big names in the sport and those who follow all the divisons and follow the sport internationally. Most US fans fit into the former catagory. Fights like Many vs Floyd have mass appeal and success because both their names had transcended the sport and entered the mainsteam in the US.

And he's right - Inoue vs Nery ain't filling any stadiums anywhere outside Japan.

I never said that fight will fill stadiums!! but match inoue up with a more known fighter and the fight will sell!! i know this fight will never happen but are you telling me if inoue somehow was able to move up and fought tank, are you telling me this fight wont fil stadiums here in the US???????!!!

[crimsonfalcon07]

I never said that fight will fill stadiums!! but match inoue up with a more known fighter and the fight will sell!! i know this fight will never happen but are you telling me if inoue somehow was able to move up and fought tank, are you telling me this fight wont fil stadiums here in the US???????!!!

Maybe Tank should move up to 147/154 and fight Terence Crawford. Tank can't even sell more than 250K PPV without a social media star for an opponent. You're asking a guy who was getting 5-10 million eyes on in Japan as far back as Payano to get ignored in the US to satisfy your ******ity. He's fought in the US, and FACTS are that there are zero recognizable names in his weight class in the US BECAUSE THE US FANS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE LITTLE GUYS. Fulton was a unified champ and nobody cared about him here. They are much more interested in blowing smoke up Boots' butt, even though he wasn't a champ. Both from Philly.

And then you think he's got to fight up 3 more weight divisions to get recognition as P4P? Canelo shouldn't be able to be P4P without fighting Tyson Fury then. Bud isn't P4P without fighting Canelo or Bivol. Haney and Tank need to fight Bud to be P4P. That's one of the ******est things I've seen on this site.

US fans are ******. There's NEVER been a market for the little guys. GTFO with the Pacquiao crap because A, that's one guy out of the entirety of history with a totally different frame and build from Inoue, and B, he didn't even become mainstream until he left the smaller classes. Chocolatito and Estrada aren't even mainstream here. Their best purses are what a middleweight contender gets paid in the US. Shut up and do your research. You don't know anything about the finances and your delusion that the US matters at all in the lower divisions is getting more asinine by the moment.

[IceTrayDaGang]

Maybe Tank should move up to 147/154 and fight Terence Crawford. Tank can't even sell more than 250K PPV without a social media star for an opponent. You're asking a guy who was getting 5-10 million eyes on in Japan as far back as Payano to get ignored in the US to satisfy your ******ity. He's fought in the US, and FACTS are that there are zero recognizable names in his weight class in the US BECAUSE THE US FANS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE LITTLE GUYS. Fulton was a unified champ and nobody cared about him here. They are much more interested in blowing smoke up Boots' butt, even though he wasn't a champ. Both from Philly.

And then you think he's got to fight up 3 more weight divisions to get recognition as P4P? Canelo shouldn't be able to be P4P without fighting Tyson Fury then. Bud isn't P4P without fighting Canelo or Bivol. Haney and Tank need to fight Bud to be P4P. That's one of the ******est things I've seen on this site.

US fans are ******. There's NEVER been a market for the little guys. GTFO with the Pacquiao crap because A, that's one guy out of the entirety of history with a totally different frame and build from Inoue, and B, he didn't even become mainstream until he left the smaller classes. Chocolatito and Estrada aren't even mainstream here. Their best purses are what a middleweight contender gets paid in the US. Shut up and do your research. You don't know anything about the finances and your delusion that the US matters at all in the lower divisions is getting more asinine by the moment.

you made a bunch of excuses.... i guess you forgot all about erik morales, barrera, etc..

[crimsonfalcon07]

you made a bunch of excuses.... i guess you forgot all about erik morales, barrera, etc..

Just wow. Literally proves my point. Barrera v Morales one wasn't even a PPV. 2 was made a PPV and only managed 400k buys, and that was when boxing was doing well. 3 was at 130, when Americans start paying attention, and still only managed 325K. And the latest of those was 20 years ago, when Americans still cared about boxing. Barrera made only 1.2 million for his highest paying fight ever. Inoue's opponents who are unknown in the US to the idiot US fans make more than that fighting him in Japan.

Just more evidence that Americans don't start paying attention until the higher weight classes.

You're literally proving the point.

You have to dig back 20 years to guys who are ATG's to even find any that were at all of interest to US fans, and even then, they're earning fractions of the purses available to even the B-sides for Inoue in Japan.

SMH. Go back to school. You need help.

Let's also put things in perspective. Tank Davis made 1 million each fight vs Ruiz, Gamboa, and Santa Cruz. He made 2 million vs Isaac Cruz. Vs Ryan Garcia, he made 5 million after PPV cut. Inoue made 5.7 million just from the Fulton fight. Inoue already makes more money in Japan than the biggest US star below welterweight makes here. Even fighting Tank Davis he'd likely take a pay cut if the fight happened here in the US, and Davis would likely insist on fighting in Japan.

[IceTrayDaGang]

Just wow. Literally proves my point. Barrera v Morales one wasn't even a PPV. 2 was made a PPV and only managed 400k buys, and that was when boxing was doing well. 3 was at 130, when Americans start paying attention, and still only managed 325K. And the latest of those was 20 years ago, when Americans still cared about boxing. Barrera made only 1.2 million for his highest paying fight ever. Inoue's opponents who are unknown in the US to the idiot US fans make more than that fighting him in Japan.

Just more evidence that Americans don't start paying attention until the higher weight classes.

You're literally proving the point.

You have to dig back 20 years to guys who are ATG's to even find any that were at all of interest to US fans, and even then, they're earning fractions of the purses available to even the B-sides for Inoue in Japan.

SMH. Go back to school. You need help.

i never said it was on PPV!!! .. you said US fanbase dont care about the lower weights... then you said pacquiao dont count... so i brought up those 2 names to remind you when matched with the right opponent (which i said the same for inoue), look how big those fights were.

[crimsonfalcon07]

i never said it was on PPV!!! .. you said US fanbase dont care about the lower weights... then you said pacquiao dont count... so i brought up those 2 names to remind you when matched with the right opponent (which i said the same for inoue), look how big those fights were.

Those fights weren't even big in comparison to what Inoue does in Japan, clown.

You brought up Tank Davis, and even he made less in his biggest fight ever than Inoue did against the likes of Fulton in Japan. That was the biggest US PPV in recent years, and it still did worse than Inoue v Fulton. That was 1.2+ million buys, and Tank gets 5 million. Bud v Spence only sold 700k buys, but they each had 25 million guarantees.

And you have to go back 20 years to ATG's to find any fans who will watch the smaller guys in the US. Fulton was the biggest US star below 130, and he's not even going to sell out in his hometown. You think O'Shaquie Foster is going to sell big time? How about another Shakur Stevenson or Devin Haney snoozefest? Those guys are huge names and they can't sell for crap. How about David Benavidez vs Demetrius Andrade. Both big names in the US. 60K buys. The US can't even sell fights with its biggest names in any division.

[_Rexy_]

stop it!!! there's plenty of BIG fights in the US that were sold out!! why you acting like floyd vs pac never happened?

That was nine years ago.


can you name any big fights between guys under 130?