Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue-TJ Doheny undercard set for September 3

[BoxWhere]

To me and I know I'm hyper critical, this is a step back for Inoue, a vote of no confidence. Like Hannibal at the walls of Rome, or more recently, Japan at Pearl Harbor. Retreat on the heals of victory.

Dohney is a former champion. Who's southpaw and power puncher with 77% KO ratio. He has never been stopped. So this is as good as it gets for a September date. And inoue is fighting again on December.

[mxtali]

Cmon Grandpa!!

[Corelone]

Dohney is a former champion. Who's southpaw and power puncher with 77% KO ratio. He has never been stopped. So this is as good as it gets for a September date. And inoue is fighting again on December.

You kind of make my point. Inoue will win, but the hits add up. In my opinion, Inoue has a better chance in a big fight now, than he will after eating more leather. That was no love tap Nery nailed him with.

[BoxWhere]

You kind of make my point. Inoue will win, but the hits add up. In my opinion, Inoue has a better chance in a big fight now, than he will after eating more leather. That was no love tap Nery nailed him with.

The hit landed by nery was nothing. It was just feet entanglement which happens when Orthodox fights aggressive Southpaw. Because both fighters are trying to put their lead foot on the outside. Which is why nery couldn't do anything after that.

If anything it was donaire who landed monster left hook and monstrous straight right on inoue, still he didn't back down and won the fight.

[Corelone]

We must assume that the only path for the Monster is 126. A run of cheap imports at 122 won't add to his stature. Worse a jump to 126 late, after he sees decline might bring disaster.

[Elheath]

We must assume that the only path for the Monster is 126. A run of cheap imports at 122 won't add to his stature. Worse a jump to 126 late, after he sees decline might bring disaster.

126 is likely going to be Inoue's final weight class but he won't go there until his body is filled out and ready to go up. People are too used to the American style annual fight champions and forget his first fight at 122 was still only 13 month ago.

Either way haters gonna hate regardless, if he stays to fight MJ/Goodman and such they will claim he's too scared to go up. If he moves up earlier they will claim he ducked them and fled to feather.

[Elheath]

I sure will be rooting for Barroso. After the screw job that was done to him against Romero , this guy deserves everything good that can happen for him. I'd love to see him win a world title to make up for the one that was stolen from him.

That reminds me, I'm glad that even though it is an interim "belt" that he has, Barroso atleast got to get a decent bag from it. Obviously not as much as the main event opponent but Inoue undercard "A-side" foreigners are known to get good money from Ohashi so that they would agree to come to Japan as an undercard. Obviously losing the belt wasn't in his plans, but Moloney agreed to come to Japan for a voluntary defense as Inoue's undercard because he got significantly more financial benefit to kick a homecoming defense in Australia.

Romero stole his actual belt and sold it to Pitbull instead of rematching with Barroso, and Valenzuela seems more interested in a Pitbull rematch anyway.