Comments Thread For: If it looks like a duck: Murodjon Akhmadaliev avoided by Naoya Inoue?

[crimsonfalcon07]

how the **** is mj mandatory, by beating bum like González. Dude is still refusing to rematch tapales. WBA is corrupt. They made mj mandatory and asked inoue to defend when he is the super champion.

Geez guy. MJ had 4 title defenses in a row, two against world champions. He lost a split decision to Tapales. I scored it for Tapales, but MJ looked to be sick and didn't fight like his usual self, and it was still a close fight. Doheny hasn't won 4 in a row either. He's only won 3, and none are even remotely in the world title range. The last one was an 8 rounder FFS. He's lost 4 of his last 10. You want to crap on MJ's worthiness when he's a former unified champ with more title defenses than Doheny's current win streak and against better competition? That's an absolute clown take.

[BoxWhere]

Geez guy. MJ had 4 title defenses in a row, two against world champions. He lost a split decision to Tapales. I scored it for Tapales, but MJ looked to be sick and didn't fight like his usual self, and it was still a close fight. Doheny hasn't won 4 in a row either. He's only won 3, and none are even remotely in the world title range. The last one was an 8 rounder FFS. He's lost 4 of his last 10. You want to crap on MJ's worthiness when he's a former unified champ with more title defenses than Doheny's current win streak and against better competition? That's an absolute clown take.

Dude at least dohney is fighting. Mj is sitting on his couch doing nothing. Dohney knocked out Japhethlee Llamido, who is way better than Gonzalez.

And Japanese fans want to see inoue fight dohney, so he is doing it. As for mj he is nobody bring nothing to the table. Only time mj had a shot was when he had the belts but he lost them. It's all his fault, he had the chance to unify with Fulton but kept fighting mandatory after mandatory until tapales beat him.

WBA is a scammer, they are making inoue pay super champion sanctioning fees, while treating him like a regular champion. Super champions get their mandatory after 18 months, from when they won the title.

WBA did the samething at 118 where they made inoue pay super champion sanctioning fees but never gave him the super belt until he was about to leave the division.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Dude at least dohney is fighting. Mj is sitting on his couch doing nothing. Dohney knocked out Japhethlee Llamido, who is way better than Gonzalez.

And Japanese fans want to see inoue fight dohney, so he is doing it. As for mj he is nobody bring nothing to the table. Only time mj had a shot was when he had the belts but he lost them. It's all his fault, he had the chance to unify with Fulton but kept fighting mandatory after mandatory until tapales beat him.

WBA is a scammer, they are making inoue pay super champion sanctioning fees, while treating him like a regular champion. Super champions get their mandatory after 18 months, from when they won the title.

WBA did the samething at 118 where they made inoue pay super champion sanctioning fees but never gave him the super belt until he was about to leave the division.

Give me a break. MJ fought in April and December last year. Doheny has fought once this year, but his last fight in 2023 was in October. That's 8 months layoff in between to 7. Llamido was 12-0 going into the fight and he's ranked 41st in the division behind Kevin Gonzalez who was 26-0-1 going into the fight.

Don't get me wrong, I think Goodman and his BS are to blame for the whole affair, and the WBA needs to sit back and wait their turn. I understand why Inoue is fighting Doheny, and I'm sure MJ will be next up after Goodman in December.

But you look like a straight clown every time you try to claim that MJ hasn't earned his ranking. He's the former unified champ, has the most consecutive defenses of any of the recent super bantam champs, and his only loss was a closely contested split decision while he was sick, which you obviously didn't even watch. He's pretty obviously the best remaining challenger in the division, aside from MAYBE Goodman, who has no power, and that overrated clown Casimero. Should tell you something that you are completely alone in your delusion here. Every credible independent ranking has MJ well ahead of Doheny (and Gonzalez ahead of Llamido, for that matter).

[BoxWhere]

Give me a break. MJ fought in April and December last year. Doheny has fought once this year, but his last fight in 2023 was in October. That's 8 months layoff in between to 7. Llamido was 12-0 going into the fight and he's ranked 41st in the division behind Kevin Gonzalez who was 26-0-1 going into the fight.

Don't get me wrong, I think Goodman and his BS are to blame for the whole affair, and the WBA needs to sit back and wait their turn. I understand why Inoue is fighting Doheny, and I'm sure MJ will be next up after Goodman in December.

But you look like a straight clown every time you try to claim that MJ hasn't earned his ranking. He's the former unified champ, has the most consecutive defenses of any of the recent super bantam champs, and his only loss was a closely contested split decision while he was sick, which you obviously didn't even watch. He's pretty obviously the best remaining challenger in the division, aside from MAYBE Goodman, who has no power, and that overrated clown Casimero. Should tell you something that you are completely alone in your delusion here. Every credible independent ranking has MJ well ahead of Doheny (and Gonzalez ahead of Llamido, for that matter).

Because mj is after payday, he avoided fulton by fighting tapales, who he thought was easy, but then got beat up. Mj is former unified champion but he won his title against Daniel Roman by barely and avoided the rematch. And is doing the same with tapales by avoiding rematch. And you should be the last one to say who is better by number of fights. Gonzalez is nowhere near Llamido, cause It's same as saying mj is **** cause he only has 13 fights.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Because mj is after payday, he avoided fulton by fighting tapales, who he thought was easy, but then got beat up. Mj is former unified champion but he won his title against Daniel Roman by barely and avoided the rematch. And is doing the same with tapales by avoiding rematch. And you should be the last one to say who is better by number of fights. Gonzalez is nowhere near Llamido, cause It's same as saying mj is **** cause he only has 13 fights.

Your double standards are really obvious here. It's clear YDKS and I'm not going to dignify your BS with any further responses. If you can't even figure out the concept that one fighter is a ranked contender and the other is still in the prospect aspect of his career, and equate beating 3 prospects and journeymen to champions and top contenders, there's nothing more to say to you.

MJ v Fulton didn't get made because Fulton is signed with PBC, and Haymon is notorious for avoiding cross promotion, especially with Matchroom. The only reason he fought Inoue is that Inoue in Japan is the cash cow of the lower weights, and they made many times their usual (3 mill compared to his previous biggest purse of 500K). But you have an agenda, so you don't understand the concept of promotional issues.

[Elheath]

Give me a break. MJ fought in April and December last year. Doheny has fought once this year, but his last fight in 2023 was in October. That's 8 months layoff in between to 7. Llamido was 12-0 going into the fight and he's ranked 41st in the division behind Kevin Gonzalez who was 26-0-1 going into the fight.

Don't get me wrong, I think Goodman and his BS are to blame for the whole affair, and the WBA needs to sit back and wait their turn. I understand why Inoue is fighting Doheny, and I'm sure MJ will be next up after Goodman in December.

But you look like a straight clown every time you try to claim that MJ hasn't earned his ranking. He's the former unified champ, has the most consecutive defenses of any of the recent super bantam champs, and his only loss was a closely contested split decision while he was sick, which you obviously didn't even watch. He's pretty obviously the best remaining challenger in the division, aside from MAYBE Goodman, who has no power, and that overrated clown Casimero. Should tell you something that you are completely alone in your delusion here. Every credible independent ranking has MJ well ahead of Doheny (and Gonzalez ahead of Llamido, for that matter).

MJ certainly is the best choice left and Casimero being a joke at this point aside, one thing for certain is that MJ and his promoter certainly is bad at trying to sell his products though. Unfortunately the casual comments in Japan are that both MJ and Doheny are equally underwhelming (which is obviously not true, but perception matters) so once Goodman fell through it didn't really change who took over. Hell, there actually are those who say Casimero will be better than both just because stuffing the face of a loudmouth heel character sells to an extent.

Among the casuals who only follow champions in Japan, the four guys mentioned are vaguely considered as:
Goodman - 25 years old, 19-0 undefeated. Don't know much about him except that he defeated Doheny so he must be better than Doheny. Made a loudmouth statement but then got scared and backed out.
MJ - 29 years old, 12-1 record former superbantam champion. Don't know much about him except that he defeated Iwasa (who already had lost to Doheny as a champion) but also lost to Tapales who Inoue already defeated with relative ease.
Doheny - 37 years old, 26-4 record former superbantam champion. Defeated Iwasa when he was a world champion and the guy best known as Inoue's sparring partner (llamido) recently. Lost to Sam Goodman who backed out of September despite the loudmouth.
Casimero - 35 years old, 33-4-1 former three division champion. Don't know much else but still talks a lot of shiz and with Nery gone is probably the next best heel character that people won't mind Inoue plucking if he's bored.

Doheny certainly has no cult following in Japan like Arum is spewing, but he actually is somewhat true when he says that MJ is a total no name who outside hardcores is only known as "the dude that lost to Tapales before Inoue defeated him"...triangle theory doesn't work in boxing but it does for casuals.

That being said, atleast one Japanese fan aka me would have loved to have MJ followed by Goodman ideally for September and December, and the best way for it was for WBA to have made the call for the "winner of Inoue-Nery" to fight MJ back then even before the fight. Instead MJ was zero crickets since December and seemed like he was uninterested the whole time while Goodman had his idiotic fallout, and hence the backup guy ala Doheny gets his lucky turn...and then WBA tries to intervene too effin late. I was hoping for a callout from MJ the whole time Goodman was rambling that never happened.

...That reminds me why was MJ NOT at Tokyo given that he was free as hell in May? He should've been the one onstage instead of Goodman to begin with.

[BoxWhere]

Your double standards are really obvious here. It's clear YDKS and I'm not going to dignify your BS with any further responses. If you can't even figure out the concept that one fighter is a ranked contender and the other is still in the prospect aspect of his career, and equate beating 3 prospects and journeymen to champions and top contenders, there's nothing more to say to you.

MJ v Fulton didn't get made because Fulton is signed with PBC, and Haymon is notorious for avoiding cross promotion, especially with Matchroom. The only reason he fought Inoue is that Inoue in Japan is the cash cow of the lower weights, and they made many times their usual (3 mill compared to his previous biggest purse of 500K). But you have an agenda, so you don't understand the concept of promotional issues.

Dude it doesn't matter about what rankings they are. Because Inoue is at the state of his career where he needs big fights against big names not guys like mj. Inoue is no longer in building stange and can give every ranked fighter a chance. Mj is no name. That's why inoue wants to fight dohney who build a following in japan. That's why inoue wants to fight goidman cause goodman has build following in Australia. That's why inoue wants to fight Casimero cause Casimero is top 2 most popular boxer in Philippines. If you want to fight inoue then it's simple either have a belt or following.

And stop with that promotion nonsense, it was mj and Eddie who stopped the unification fight against Fulton.