Comments Thread For: Inoue Wins Big In Japan As He Scoops Fighter Of The Year Award

[BoxingUpdates]

Naoya Inoue wins major honors in Japan for Fighter of the Year
[Click Here To Read More]

[Lance98]

Yes of course...who else is there in japan other than him?

[Boro]

Yes of course...who else is there in japan other than him?

Nakatani and Ioka are both solid, particularly Nakatani...

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Yes he's the best in Japan and only known in Japan


arigatou gozaimasu

[Griever0730]

He's gonna win this award(s) over there every year until he retires. As good as some of the other Japanese fighters are, this dude is just something different.

[Elheath]

He's basically won it 6 times in a row, and seventh time in his career. If anything next year is the first chance in years for the other boxers as he'll likely "only" do defenses without getting a new belts so others getting multiple belts will possibly put them above him.

Past 7 Inoue Japanese FotY wins:
2023 Won 4 newbelts to go undisputed at 122.
2022 Won 2 new belts to go undisputed at 118.
2021 As the only Japanese unified champion that fought twice (Due to COVID 2020-2021 majority of the Japanese boxers were shelved so it was a somewhat de facto win).
2020 As the only Japanese unified champion that fought and won.
2019 Won 2 new belts and WBSS.
2018 Won the "Regular" belt to become the sixth Japanese three division champion boxer.
2014 Won 2 belts between two divisions.

If Nakatani wins against Santiago this week and can manage to get an unification fight this year at 118 he's got a chance for 2024 MVP.

[Boxingfanatic75]

Yes he's the best in Japan and only known in Japan


arigatou gozaimasu

Sure, to casuals of course. Is this an attempt at a snub? Then again name me a single boxer since Tyson that’s been known outside of boxing….i’ll wait. Your average person that doesn’t watch boxing doesn’t know a single one.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

Yes he's the best in Japan and only known in Japan


arigatou gozaimasu

That doesn't take anything away from Inoue. It's the peoples loss. The guy is a very special fighter.

[YGriffith]

Yes he's the best in Japan and only known in Japan


arigatou gozaimasu

The best American boxers are barely known in their bloc much less outside of it.

[The Big Dunn]

IMO he rightfully won RING FOTY.