Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue Rules Out Immediate Move To Featherweight

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Junior featherweight undisputed champion Naoya "The Monster" Inoue, widely regarded as the one of the best fighters in the sport, is now facing the question: What's next for the dominant champion?
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[The Big Dunn]

Good. Clean out 122 first then go to 126 if a big fight presents itself.

Might want to stay at 122 until Bam Rodriguez gets there.

That would be an incredible fight imo.

[hugh grant]

No need to move up. You don't get.rewarded anyway. No matter what you do, the powers that be will find a excuse why what others do is equal to you?

[TheOneAboveAll]

No need to move up. You don't get.rewarded anyway. No matter what you do, the powers that be will find a excuse why what others do is equal to you?

Spot on. There is a large segment of the American and Western fight fanbase who simply will not give due credit to foreign fighters in the lighter weight classes because they just don't watch these fighters. There are good matchups for Inoue at FW when he eventually gets there (Nick Ball, Robeisy, R. Vargas, Kholmatov, etc), but he has to grow into the weight naturally. I'd like to see him beat Akmadaliev and then Nakatani at 122lbs before moving up to full FW.

[hugh grant]

Spot on. There is a large segment of the American and Western fight fanbase who simply will not give due credit to foreign fighters in the lighter weight classes because they just don't watch these fighters. There are good matchups for Inoue at FW when he eventually gets there (Nick Ball, Robeisy, R. Vargas, Kholmatov, etc), but he has to grow into the weight naturally. I'd like to see him beat Akmadaliev and then Nakatani at 122lbs before moving up to full FW.

Yes, of course inoue will move up eventually because he has the talent.
But the powers that be, will probably try convincing themselves that Bud beating spence or usyk beating fury is equal to Inoue being 5 division champ, with inoue not needing to acclimatize to the weight

[The Big Dunn]

No need to move up. You don't get.rewarded anyway. No matter what you do, the powers that be will find an excuse why what others do is equal to you?

Lmfao. You are angry that posters and professional boxers have Crawford and Usyk ranked ahead of Inoue.

All have accomplishments worthy of being ranked #1. Both Crawford and Usyk have convincing wins over consensus top 7 p4p opponents. Inoue doesn’t.

Make sure you acknowledge that they have accomplished things Inoue hasn’t.

Inoue gets credit for everything he’s accomplished. As do Usyk and Crawford.

We all know the real reason you are angry.

[SamLangfordFan]

Inoue is continue boiling down to 122 from 143-144 to overpower dudes nobody has ever heard of or cares about. What a warrior, cutting 20% of his body weight to beat up midgets. And Too Rank wonders why nobody cares about him.

[JonDP]

It will be sooner than he wants to admit. There’s no one left at 122 that can generate a lot of Interest and the kind of payday he’s come to expect (even the Japanese general public are not going to go for left over opponents).

[Elheath]

Inoue is continue boiling down to 122 from 143-144 to overpower dudes nobody has ever heard of or cares about. What a warrior, cutting 20% of his body weight to beat up midgets. And Too Rank wonders why nobody cares about him.

Well, atleast he's getting enough attention from random haters to the point that they start making up imaginary numbers so that is a start I guess?

[Elheath]

It will be sooner than he wants to admit. There’s no one left at 122 that can generate a lot of Interest and the kind of payday he’s come to expect (even the Japanese general public are not going to go for left over opponents).

He's already said it many times that he is moving up in 2025 but no earlier. Sometimes I really wonder if these media guys are not allowed to retain info for more than a month or something.

When he came up to 122 in 2023 he mentioned staying for atleast two years (ie 2025 or later).
After he went undisputed in 2023 he mentioned he will do some defenses next year (2024) and move up the year afterwards (ie 2025).
Most recent interview he said he will stay for one more year (ie 2025).

It has ALWAYS been that he was staying in 122 for 2023 and all of 2024. It hasn't changed, and it probably won't.