Comments Thread For: BoxingScene?s Midweek Mailbag: Fighter of the Year, Naoya Inoue-Junto Nakatani and more

[BoxingUpdates]

In this week?s mailbag, we tackle your thoughts on whether BoxingScene?s team made the right pick in selecting Terence Crawford as fighter of the year
[Click Here To Read More]

[famicommander]

I just don't see any way Nakatani makes it a close fight with Inoue. I was saying Nakatani eats way too many clean punches even before the Hernandez fight.

Nobody can take that mean clean shots from a puncher like Inoue. Every fighter than took him the distance fought very conservatively; Nakatani doesn't have that in him. His defense is leaky on his best day.

[SteveM]

There isn't intrigue for a Wilder-Usyk fight - and Wilder most definitelt can't pull the trigger anymore - people forget that there are 2 tell-tale signs of a shot fighter, 1/ punch resistance gone, 2/ can't pull the trigger - lacking either signala a likely loss, lacking both signals a mismatch.
So any promoter putting together this fight is a cynical money grab. If Lance Pugmire can't see this I'm inclined to think he didn't watch the Zhang and Parker fights or he doesn't understand levels in boxing.

[Moz_boxing]

"Has his trigger slowed at age 40? Yes, but it’s still there"

Is it really? Wilders last two fights beg to differ. I think Wilder lost something mentally and thats it.

Many people will be suprised of the outcome between Inoue vs Nakatani. It suprises me that in a boxing forum many people never heard or understood what styles make fights mean. Its rock paper scissors my friends.

Nakatani gets hit a lot its what they say but Nakatani is a precise counter puncher who hits opponents way more often clean than the other way around Inoue on the other hand got caught by counterpunches through out his career and even in his last two fights and he was put down against guys with 0 punching power.

Inoue vs Nakatani will not be a war and it will not be one sided but i suspect both going down at least ones.

[Oregonian]

I just don't see any way Nakatani makes it a close fight with Inoue. I was saying Nakatani eats way too many clean punches even before the Hernandez fight.

Nobody can take that mean clean shots from a puncher like Inoue. Every fighter than took him the distance fought very conservatively; Nakatani doesn't have that in him. His defense is leaky on his best day.

----------------------
Agreed 100%. It's not just Nakatani's defense being leaky. Nakatani can and has looked good against people that aren't as violent as Inoue. The hellish violent style of Inoue is going to end Nakatani.

[BlackRobb]

Nakatani would be better off fighting Bam at 118. I just don't see him surviving beyond eight rounds against Monster. He has height and reach, but he will struggle tremendously with Inoue's speed and footwork. The same "pundits" who say this will be a close fight are the same ones who called Crawford-Spence a 50/50 fight and predicted that Canelo would stop Bud.