Comments Thread For: Mexican great calls for ?close to invincible? Naoya Inoue to fight Rafael Espinoza

[BoxingUpdates]

Marco Antonio Barrera considers Naoya Inoue ?pretty close to invincible? ? but wants to see him fight Rafael Espinoza next.
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[pretty boy_]

Said it once and I'll say it again, Inoue is the new Mexicutioner. Bring on Espinoza after Cardenas.

[steeve steel]

Espinoza is 6'1", 31 yrs and fights at ... 126. Hmmm...

[Griever0730]

Despite Inoue being as great a fighter as he is, moving up to 126 is already asking alot for a guy who started at 108. Espinoza's dimensions and ability for guy in these lower weights are nightmare for anybody to deal with. This would be a crazy, yet intriguing fight to see just bc of what a wild size difference it would be between them. Would still pick Inoue to win this fight just bc of how near of a complete fighter he is, but it is a tall order(no pun intended) for him to get thru this matchup without some real difficulty.

[letsbox10]

Idk why people are asking for this fight when Espinoza hasn't done anything. 1st let Espinoza unify and then hold the belts at 126 and move up to 130 to become 2 division champion. Then come back down to 126 and defend the belts. That way Espinoza will have a good resume and will have a bigger name. Now we have a big fight between 2 guys who are accomplished. Most guys don't want to accomplish anything but are waiting for handouts. 1st become accomplished then you won't have to ask for the fight cause it will happen on its own. If inoue were to fight him now everyone will say inoue beat up a nobody.

[kiaba360]

Idk why people are asking for this fight when Espinoza hasn't done anything. 1st let Espinoza unify and then hold the belts at 126 and move up to 130 to become 2 division champion. Then come back down to 126 and defend the belts. That way Espinoza will have a good resume and will have a bigger name. Now we have a big fight between 2 guys who are accomplished. Most guys don't want to accomplish anything but are waiting for handouts. 1st become accomplished then you won't have to ask for the fight cause it will happen on its own. If inoue were to fight him now everyone will say inoue beat up a nobody.

Inoue is the money fight. The titlists can't be bothered to unify their division because the money isn't there. TR has access to all of the 126lb titlists, yet there's been no unifications.

[letsbox10]

So it's safe to say Inoue won't be undisputed at 126?
You can't really complain since they hold the belts.
If you want to be undisputed, you have to fight and take the belts from the beltholders.

He will be undisputed as that's what he wants. But it'll happen on Inoue's time and schedule as he is the cash cow. So there's no point in guys at 126 calling him out. Instead they should unify and make their resume better so when the fight happens it'll be a bigger fight meaning more money.

[just the facts]

Idk why people are asking for this fight when Espinoza hasn't done anything. 1st let Espinoza unify and then hold the belts at 126 and move up to 130 to become 2 division champion. Then come back down to 126 and defend the belts. That way Espinoza will have a good resume and will have a bigger name. Now we have a big fight between 2 guys who are accomplished. Most guys don't want to accomplish anything but are waiting for handouts. 1st become accomplished then you won't have to ask for the fight cause it will happen on its own. If inoue were to fight him now everyone will say inoue beat up a nobody.

Much more $$$ in having Inoue beat all the champions one at a time (if he can). Don’t sell Espinoza short here, a determined fighter with a HUGE size advantage is hard to beat.

[SteveM]

Lets get Carrington a title shot at 126 before trying to jam Inoue in at 126. Akhmadaliev and Nakatani will be better fights for Inoue at 122 - with too many fans its just move up until you get beaten - at LHW or below every fighter will have a ceiling as to how far they can move up - it only makes sense if there are no more decent fights in the weight class they're in. And btw - Nakatani should at least unify a couple of belts at 118 before moving up to fight Inoue.

[letsbox10]

No need to say he'll be undisputed at 126 then.
Since he won't be fighting at 126 for the next 2 years at best.

Dude do you even understand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is guys at 126 shouldn't be calling out Inoue since he will do things his way. You were the one who brought up undisputed thing. All I said was that it will happen on Inoue's time cause he is the money guy.