Comments Thread For: 'Monster' Numbers: Naoya Inoue Is Trending Globally - Not Just in Japan

[Robi13]

Phenom, icon, legend are all words you affiliate with an ATG and inoue along with Canelo are the only legit ATG in the game as of this moment. Bud is almost there and so is the winner of fury/usyk. Who am I missing?

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

I don't care where or at what time Inoue is fighting, I'm watching, and I am watching live because I hate to know the result before I see a fight. Inoue is must see TV no matter where you are or where he is. I don't throw the word great around loosely , Inoue is great. I proudly wear my Noaya Inoue baseball cap here in North Mississippi and Memphis , even though almost nobody knows who the little guy with the gloves on is on my hat.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Inoue needs to be tested by VADA and fights Casimero in a neutral ground to get my respect

https://vada-testing.org/2022/06/21/naoya-inoue/

You mean like he already did? Casimero is a clown who lost his belt to a sauna, or he'd already have gotten a beatdown from Inoue. If he wants another shot at the King, he needs to claim a mandatory shot by beating Goodman or MJ, or maybe win a belt at 126. Casimero. Lol.

[dan-b]

Todd duBoef shows a refreshing amount of self-awareness for an American in this article. "Cracking America" is old hat generally, and for boxing specifically they can barely get their stars fighting once a year now.

I think it’s a very shallow perspective in today’s world.

[dan-b]

I've never believed Inoue HAS to come to America to be a superstar. He's doing big things anyway. But I disagree with Todd Boof on one thing. Inoue is an amazing fighter and certainly one of the best. But I cannot put him over Boots Ennis. In accomplishments so far, yes. But in skill? Skill for skill? Inoue is extremely good. He'll be in the hall of fame for certain. He deserves every accolade he's receiving and then some. He's fit and extremely explosive. He packs a mean punch with both hands and has blinding speed. He's not some normal dude. His IQ is high, he has no weaknesses and yada yada. But Boots is still more skilled as far as boxing goes

Boots is an untested contender. There's no comparison.

[theface07]

Best hard rock band since the RHCP

Are you for real? I didn't know Red Hot Chili Peppers were a hard rock band. I always thought they were more alternative funk rap. They've become very generic and uninspired as of late much like the Foo Fighters. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a great album by them just like Color and the Shape by Foo Fighters. Since that, neither have been that inspired. Californication was alright.

[_Rexy_]

In Vegas, the Japanese can party hard, in their fashion. The japanese community is huge in America almost as many as in Japan. Unlke a smaller place where such a community wouldn't fit and not just the Japanese.

Bro, there's only 1.5 million Japanese Americans, and almost half of those are in Hawaii and California. Are you just assuming every asian american is Japanese?

[Airtioteclint]

Are you for real? I didn't know Red Hot Chili Peppers were a hard rock band. I always thought they were more alternative funk rap. They've become very generic and uninspired as of late much like the Foo Fighters. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a great album by them just like Color and the Shape by Foo Fighters. Since that, neither have been that inspired. Californication was alright.

I don't know any of their new stuff I didn't even know they had new stuff but they were the shiet back in the early 2000's.

I always considered them rock although I think I've heard some call it grunge before.

I could have said the best rock band since led zeppelin and imo i wouldn't even be lying but those kind of words would only make people hate them.

[Airtioteclint]

Rock Band only when they sold out
Listen to Mothers Milk
Cool if you wanna call it Rock but not imo
And pretty darn good especially live

I'll check em out

[Sid-Knee]

I think there’s a difference in watching on TV and actually fighting live here on our soil. It has less to do with the fighter and more to do with our fans. Take Messi for example. We all knew him here. He comes to America and ticket prices and sales go up by a bazillion for soccer which isn’t even that big a deal here compared to other countries. Why is that? Hell if I know, I guess we’re crazy Americans . But it does make a different impact. Maybe because we know he’s never fought here but we’d pay that PPV price to watch him. But to see him live when he never is here, people take out a second mortgage haha. Not ME, but our society.

Inoue has fought in the US before. But to do it again with no dance partner, it doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't do good PPV numbers. Hell, maybe even with a good dance partner it doesn't do good numbers.

But the point Porter was making was, that in order to be a global star, Inoue would have to fight in the US. Which of course, is rubbish. The global scene can watch Inoue out of Japan. The same way they can watch any fighter out of any country on their TV.