Seen this great article of Inoue floating about, well worth a read if your a fan of the kid. He does look VERY special and like you said, he's the truth.
Naoya Inoue - Boxing Prospects
Seen this great article of Inoue floating about, well worth a read if your a fan of the kid. He does look VERY special and like you said, he's the truth.
Naoya Inoue - Boxing Prospects
He'll need to be the truth looking at his next bout. Next time out he will face 31 year old Yuki Sano (17-2-4, 12) a former Japanese Light Flyweight title contender in a 10 round bout. Sano has never been stopped, hits hard and his last loss was a controversial one to Masayuki Kuroda.
The experience difference is ridiculous. Sano has had 23 fights to Inoue's 2, Sano has had 117 rounds to Inoue's 5 and Sano has gone 6 or more rounds something like 12 times whilst Inoue has never been the 4th!
Insane experience difference.
They don't give a fuck in Japan. They move there fighters quick. Experience is overrated over there. They don't care for it. They go by skills and talent. If you have them than you should win. If they could have a muthafukka fight for a title in his pro debut they would
They arguably pushed Iwasa too fast as well (though I imagine he will go on to win a world title at some point) and Hirofumi Mukai (his next bout is a hard one as well!)
Way to fast. And he's not alone. Two other fellow prospects took there first L recently. Yukinori Oguni and Shuhei Tsuchiya. The Tsuchiya one you can kind of see coming. Cuz he leaves himself wide open looking for the knock out. So he was at risk. Oguni was opposite. He has no power. He boxes to win. Him losing was surprising
Talking about Wake he looked REALLY good last time out on route to stopping Eita Kikuchi, fair to say he's much better than his record indicates.
Anyway back to Inoue, he will be facing Ryochi Taguchi for the Japanese Light Flyweight title in March. The once beaten Taguchi is ranked #3 by the WBA and a victory opens up a very real possibility of Inoue v Ioka in a chance for Hideyuki Ohashi to get revenge for Ioka beating Akira Yaegashi.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks