Stephen Fulton v Naoya Inoue 25th July 2023

**Denilson3.0** · 07-26-2023 03:07 PM

Man - Inoue is the greatest thing and most sublimely beautiful destructive force coming off Kanagawa since the Great Wave

By the way for anyone who missed the fight here's the highlights

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I'm actually annoyed that Inoue was THAT good. I let my heart rule my head and picked Fulton by UD but despite Fulton's great CV and resume he never passed my eye test.

He never looked great but then again neither did Bernard Hopkins so I was hoping Fulton would test him. I still think Fulton is better than he looked, was just terribly outclassed by a great fighter. It happens. To his credit, Fulton didn't go into survival mode. He actually stopped boxing and started trying to win via knockout. But he was just up against a guy with elite speed, elite timing, elite power, elite footwork, and elite ring IQ.

I still don't think Fulton is a solid baseline for the monster being an ATG great.

The comm crew was making Fulton out to be Sugar Ray Robinson

One thing that blew me away was the class of the Japanese crowd. They showed Fulton more respect in defeat for merely taking the fight than Americans would have shown him for BEATING Inoue. Dude got a standing ovation on his exit.

As for Inoue, you know it's shame that casuals know Ryan Garcia and Jake Paul more than Inoue. Also the finish was perfect too, glad the ref let Fulton get buckled and sink to the ground to remove any BS about a bad stoppage.