Inoue is the best puncher in modern boxing

I don't know how well his punching power will carry up through the divisions, but regardless his punch mechanics are insane. Every shot sounds like a shotgun blast going off, and he doesn't even seem to put that much into them a lot of the time. Nor does he seem to be a hugely powerful guy for his weight division, the way Beterbiev is. All his power seems to stem from perfect technique, balance, accuracy and weight transference.

 

So he was wearing high heels to hit a heavyweights chin? Get real. His body shot is the most devastating shot he has to be honest.

 

Yes sir he is

 

The reason why is immaterial, dude.

The larger point is that Canelo didn't have to "walk" through a whole lot from Kovalev.

 

kovalev was already dead tired after throwing a few jabs and a couple of straights.

 

Inoue's power will probably not carry beyond 126. He's a very skinny dude.

 

Inoue is overrated. He still has many things to prove. I saw Inoue hugging Donaire for a dear life after he got caught by some solid punches in that fight. He needs to fight big name fighters or unify the World Championship titles to prove that he's the real deal.

 

Needs to be bumped he's the best right now

 

Lol, he couldn’t even stop a past-it Donaire.

He’s too textbook. It’s great fighting against C level guys but soon as he stepped up (and despite how show Donaire was, he was a major step up which says a lot) he couldn’t do what he usually does.

It was the same story with GGG. The hallmark of having ATG power, speed, skills etc. Is when you still look like you have ATG power, skills, speed against Elite opponents.

Mikey is another one everyone was going crazy about. People seems to love textbook style, but textbook is too basic and all the elites in history surpassed textbook. They needed to add something in there that was their own.

The most textbook elite I can think of is Holmes. But Ali, Tyson, Duran, SRL, Pac, Floyd, RJJ, SRR - these guys aren’t “textbook”. Slow, methodical type of guys.

Mikey Garcia, Tsyzu, Inoue - they reach a very high level, but usually not elite of elites.

 

Jesus Christ imagine thinking Inoue isn't elite.

 

Inoue is not an elite boxer - now I've heard everything!

 

He clinched exactly 3X in that fight — 2 after Donaire landed fight-ending type haymakers and once when they got tangled up. And you forget that he had his orbital shattered in the second round.