Comments Thread For: Sunny Edwards believes Bam Rodriguez can challenge Naoya Inoue

[Elheath]

This sounds more like Sunny trying to indirectly fluff himself up where despite the KO loss he's not that far behind Bam, and Bam isn't too far off from Inoue, and therefore he is also not too far below Inoue / P4P level either.

In reality though Sunny is basically a lighter weight version of Inoue...as in, Takuma Inoue at best. Coincidentally they both are near identical age too, born less than a week apart.

[BlackRobb]

It all depends on the weight classes
If Junto and Naoya were at 115, I wouldn't favor them as much as now. Now they have the weight advantage where Rodriguez would need to acclimate to higher weight classes.

Weight won't matter. Monster has destroyed very good fighters at every weight he's fought at. He's not going to sit at 122 for four years waiting for Bam to get there either.

[boxingitis]

Weight won't matter. Monster has destroyed very good fighters at every weight he's fought at. He's not going to sit at 122 for four years waiting for Bam to get there either.

He can come down to 118 now. Nonito went from 126 all the way down to 118 to fight Inuoe.

[tokon]

That would be a very hard fight for Bam. I think Junto is the goods. But Bam has surprisingly long arms. Despite the height difference, Junto only has an inch and a half reach advantage. He's very patient and economical in his work, and they're both southpaw, so it's a more dangerous closed stance fight for Bam, who has struggled more with fellow southpaws in the past. It's still hard for Bam to close distance because unlike, say, Fundora, who fights small, Junto adopts that wide stance that gives him a lot of upper body distance adjustment range without adjusting his feet. I think he's focused on Inoue though, while Bam has plenty of business at 115.

That's the big fight to make, for both guys, in the next 12 months not Inoue.

[JOITATS]

And he still couldn't stop him, he als has other lesser opponents he couldn't stop.

Argi Cortes also got ripped off vs Estrada.


Nakatani dominated and beat the piss out of Cortes.

Bam is a midget compared to Nakatani. Good fight, but Nakatani is superior to Bam in every aspect.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Argi Cortes also got ripped off vs Estrada.


Nakatani dominated and beat the piss out of Cortes.

Bam is a midget compared to Nakatani. Good fight, but Nakatani is superior to Bam in every aspect.

4" height advantage, only 1.5" advantage. And superior in every way? That's a stretch. Their styles are very different, so very apples to oranges. Bam certainly has better footwork. I do think he knows Junto would be a hard task, but there's still questions to be answered about Junto, and at this point, we know Bam is legit.

[boxingitis]

Argi Cortes also got ripped off vs Estrada.


Nakatani dominated and beat the piss out of Cortes.

Bam is a midget compared to Nakatani. Good fight, but Nakatani is superior to Bam in every aspect.

Then he should come down to 115 and prove it. Nakatani has the size advantage, maybe the power, but not the skills.

[BoxWhere]

Never did I say Bam would stop Nakatani in 6 or at all.

I said junto will stop him inside 6 because bam will come to fight instead of just trying to survive.

[BoxWhere]

He can come down to 118 now. Nonito went from 126 all the way down to 118 to fight Inuoe.

Inoue isn't moving down to 118 at all. Once he moves up he never comes down. And why the F would he come down to 118 for bam. When inoue is the superstar and A-side.

[BoxWhere]

4" height advantage, only 1.5" advantage. And superior in every way? That's a stretch. Their styles are very different, so very apples to oranges. Bam certainly has better footwork. I do think he knows Junto would be a hard task, but there's still questions to be answered about Junto, and at this point, we know Bam is legit.

How do we know bam is legit lol. All he did was beat old inactive guys.