Re-Watched Inoue vs Donaire

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

Re-Watched Inoue vs Donaire and scored it this time.

Was fan of both these guys cuz I prefer action fighters with KO power and who go for the KO. Currently huge fan of Inoue since no one else in the sport is steamrolling through opponents and collecting belts like him. He probably my fav fighter right now!

Round 1 Inoue (feeling out round I landed cleaner)
Round 2 Donaire pressing forward more busy
Round 3 Donaire same as round two
Round 4 Inoue starting to find his rhythm/timing
Round 5 Inoue looked like he could have got the stoppage at the end but let Donaire off for some reason?
Round 6 Inoue out boxing and landing cleaner
Round 7 some more of round 6 plus Inoue tosses Donaire to the ground and then bows to him out of respect saying sorry? WTF?
Round 8 Gave to Donaire busier and landed more.
Round 9 Best round for Donaire landed his best punch and had Inoue holding on and just running.
Round 10 Inoue got his legs back and outboxed.
Round 11 Inoue scores the knock down with body shot. Ref takes extra time to even begin his count. Ref counts all the way to 10 and still lets Donaire continue? WTF? Also Inoue actually is about to throw his hands up in victory when ref hits 10 count and is kind of like ok guess the fights going on?
Round 12 Inoue, Donaire is still hurt by the body shot from previous round and is in survival mode. Inoue probably could have really went for the KO here but did not?

Final score for me was 116 to 110 Inoue.

The bigger question is why did Inoue struggle so much with Donaire?

I mean much respect to Donaire in his prime he was a beast but this version of Donaire was way past it.

Was Donaire just way too big for Inoue?

Did Inoue just respect Donaire too much and didnt wanna hurt him or something?

Did Inoue overtrain? I heard some fans say Inoue overtrained since they kept rescheduling this fight it got pushed back like 3 times right? Inoue started came like crazy early?


Anyways fam I like Inoue and I think we need a new star who's exciting and who's all action who knocks out everyone like my man Iron Mike in his prime.

I thought Inoue might be that dude to get everyone excited but this fight still dont sit right with me for some reason?

Thoughts?

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

Re-Watched Inoue vs Donaire and scored it this time.

Was fan of both these guys cuz I prefer action fighters with KO power and who go for the KO. Currently huge fan of Inoue since no one else in the sport is steamrolling through opponents and collecting belts like him. He probably my fav fighter right now!

Round 1 Inoue (feeling out round I landed cleaner)
Round 2 Donaire pressing forward more busy
Round 3 Donaire same as round two
Round 4 Inoue starting to find his rhythm/timing
Round 5 Inoue looked like he could have got the stoppage at the end but let Donaire off for some reason?
Round 6 Inoue out boxing and landing cleaner
Round 7 some more of round 6 plus Inoue tosses Donaire to the ground and then bows to him out of respect saying sorry? WTF?
Round 8 Gave to Donaire busier and landed more.
Round 9 Best round for Donaire landed his best punch and had Inoue holding on and just running.
Round 10 Inoue got his legs back and outboxed.
Round 11 Inoue scores the knock down with body shot. Ref takes extra time to even begin his count. Ref counts all the way to 10 and still lets Donaire continue? WTF? Also Inoue actually is about to throw his hands up in victory when ref hits 10 count and is kind of like ok guess the fights going on?
Round 12 Inoue, Donaire is still hurt by the body shot from previous round and is in survival mode. Inoue probably could have really went for the KO here but did not?

Final score for me was 116 to 110 Inoue.

The bigger question is why did Inoue struggle so much with Donaire?

I mean much respect to Donaire in his prime he was a beast but this version of Donaire was way past it.

Was Donaire just way too big for Inoue?

Did Inoue just respect Donaire too much and didnt wanna hurt him or something?

Did Inoue overtrain? I heard some fans say Inoue overtrained since they kept rescheduling this fight it got pushed back like 3 times right? Inoue started came like crazy early?


Anyways fam I like Inoue and I think we need a new star who's exciting and who's all action who knocks out everyone like my man Iron Mike in his prime.

I thought Inoue might be that dude to get everyone excited but this fight still dont sit right with me for some reason?

Thoughts?

oh btw one of the judges scored this fight 114 to 113 for Inoue WTF? lol

[Citizen Koba]

Re-Watched Inoue vs Donaire and scored it this time.

Was fan of both these guys cuz I prefer action fighters with KO power and who go for the KO. Currently huge fan of Inoue since no one else in the sport is steamrolling through opponents and collecting belts like him. He probably my fav fighter right now!

Round 1 Inoue (feeling out round I landed cleaner)
Round 2 Donaire pressing forward more busy
Round 3 Donaire same as round two
Round 4 Inoue starting to find his rhythm/timing
Round 5 Inoue looked like he could have got the stoppage at the end but let Donaire off for some reason?
Round 6 Inoue out boxing and landing cleaner
Round 7 some more of round 6 plus Inoue tosses Donaire to the ground and then bows to him out of respect saying sorry? WTF?
Round 8 Gave to Donaire busier and landed more.
Round 9 Best round for Donaire landed his best punch and had Inoue holding on and just running.
Round 10 Inoue got his legs back and outboxed.
Round 11 Inoue scores the knock down with body shot. Ref takes extra time to even begin his count. Ref counts all the way to 10 and still lets Donaire continue? WTF? Also Inoue actually is about to throw his hands up in victory when ref hits 10 count and is kind of like ok guess the fights going on?
Round 12 Inoue, Donaire is still hurt by the body shot from previous round and is in survival mode. Inoue probably could have really went for the KO here but did not?

Final score for me was 116 to 110 Inoue.

The bigger question is why did Inoue struggle so much with Donaire?

I mean much respect to Donaire in his prime he was a beast but this version of Donaire was way past it.

Was Donaire just way too big for Inoue?

Did Inoue just respect Donaire too much and didnt wanna hurt him or something?

Did Inoue overtrain? I heard some fans say Inoue overtrained since they kept rescheduling this fight it got pushed back like 3 times right? Inoue started came like crazy early?


Anyways fam I like Inoue and I think we need a new star who's exciting and who's all action who knocks out everyone like my man Iron Mike in his prime.

I thought Inoue might be that dude to get everyone excited but this fight still dont sit right with me for some reason?

Thoughts?

Inoue's still that dude, man, don't ever underestimate a motivated elite level veteran like Donaire, all that maturity and ring experience at the top level counts for a lot. Naoya still pulled it off when he had to and in the process showed that characteristic that is most vital in any fighter... tenacity - the ability to fight through adversity. That's the last box that needed checking for me with Naoya, and one of the most important things to know about any fighter.

sad fact though that unless these dudes are right in front of the audience with a major promoter in the US they're just not gonna get talked about as much on places like NSB... maybe now Naoya's signed with Arum he'll get a bit more attention outside of Japan, but he's never gonna be that kinda star. Hell, look at Chocalatito... dude was tearing through the lower divisions much like Inoue and almost as destructively, was in the P4P lists, still only really got attention form the hardcore dudes. It is what it is.

Still one of my favourite fighters though... if it can be done before Guillermo gets too old Inoue vs Rigo is a high one on my wishlist.

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

Inoue's still that dude, man, don't ever underestimate a motivated elite level veteran like Donaire, all that maturity and ring experience at the top level counts for a lot. Naoya still pulled it off when he had to and in the process showed that characteristic that is most vital in any fighter... tenacity - the ability to fight through adversity. That's the last box that needed checking for me with Naoya, and one of the most important things to know about any fighter.

sad fact though that unless these dudes are right in front of the audience with a major promoter in the US they're just not gonna get talked about as much on places like NSB... maybe now Naoya's signed with Arum he'll get a bit more attention outside of Japan, but he's never gonna be that kinda star. Hell, look at Chocalatito... dude was tearing through the lower divisions much like Inoue and almost as destructively, was in the P4P lists, still only really got attention form the hardcore dudes. It is what it is.

Still one of my favourite fighters though... if it can be done before Guillermo gets too old Inoue vs Rigo is a high one on my wishlist.

green k bro! u a real positive dude! hopefully u right.

I do wanna see Inoue just knocking out champs from now on with the quickness too.

Thats actually a brilliant comparison to Choc but thing is Choc was getting crazy love on HBO towards the end. Both Max and Jim were pumping Choc up like crazy.

They even made it clear hes on top of their p4p list as number 1. Which made the Thai dude's upset win even more impressive twice both times lol.

Theres no huge major outlet hyping Inoue or any of the current rising stars of the sport at all.

If DAZN can get back on track it might happen, but thats why I preferred Inoue to stay with DAZN because I dont trust Arum at all. Guys got long history of F'n over fighters and making his fighters only fight weak in stable competition!

[hugh grant]

Donaires has pedigree, you don't suddenly become bad donaires pretty close to what he always was, just he might have been overrated in first place.
But he was obviously good in first place for him to be rated so highly in first .place. He's not a guerrerro.
Inoue stepped up in class, he did ok

[HeadShots]

Donaire's power is ATG. He shocked Inoue with a few flush left hooks, one of which broke his eye socket. affecting his vision.

Inoue opted to box and still won the fight.

[SinderellaMan]

That's crazy.
I just watched it today before I saw your post.
Damn good fight

[Affogato`]

My favorite fight ! I have watched like 5times really enjoy it
Should have been knock out TBH

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

That's crazy.
I just watched it today before I saw your post.
Damn good fight

great fight but what's your take on why Inoue didnt just blow ND away like everyone was assuming?

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

My favorite fight ! I have watched like 5times really enjoy it
Should have been knock out TBH

yeah that 11th round was suspect as hell!

looks like the ref was paid by Richard Schaeffer or something?