Why did Inoue leave the Superfly division?

You're right. Inoue got off to such a fast start beating Omar Narvaez in his eighth fight two years in but he hasn't done anything worthwhile in his last seven fights and three years.

 

It's called daring to be great, aka having balls, not playing it safe. I wouldn't say that too many make that mistake, since you can count on two hands the number of four weight champions we've had in the last eighteen years. Jones Jr, Pac, May, Marquez, Morales, Barrera, Donaire, Gonzalez... and Broner?

 

The question should be asked why did Frank Warren make Tete move up? Tete stated he had no problem making weight after he KO'd Butler. Can you imagine if he was on the Super Fly Card against Cuadras, Estrada, Gonzalez, or Wangek.

 

He liked eating.

 

True, 104-115 is only about 10 percent of his body weight, whereas Jones Jr put on 25%, Mayweather put on 18%, Pacquiao put on 43%, and Marquez put on 18%. But Gonzalez' 10% is still equivalent to say Mikey Garcia 11% (at 140), slightly more than Crawford 8% (at 147), more than Lomachenko 7% (at 135), and now Inoue 9% (at 118) and people cream themselves over their weight climbing. None of them measure up to Arguello's 18% either. I still think Gonzalez deserved his #1 spot based on the %climb and his resume which shits all over everyone else currently in the p4p list.

 

I was certain he would be fighting Rungvisai as they were on the same hbo card but I don't know if hbo offered any of the big name super flyweights to him. Cuadras and Inoue would've made it an even bigger event to super fly.