Naoya Inoue Vs. Stephen Fulton Weigh In and Face/Off (!!!)

But in this fight, no one can. Because . . .

 

It's one thing to agree to not tape his hands, it's another for him to "choose" use a softer glove. I mean, lets face it, all this could significantly increase Fulton's chances of surviving.

 

My only thing is if Inoue stops knocking out fighters because every fighter he now fights in the future brings up wrap concerns whats going to be your excuse for it.. "He couldn't carry up his power, what cant you understand"?

 

In Inoue's fights, the gloves he used were very small and tight. And you can tell that his gloves were like an extension of his fist. Perhaps due to the taping of the hands and the way the gloves fit over the hand wraps. Now he's using loose gloves with more padding. This could drastically change his punch style. Now if he still knocks out Fulton then it'll seem like a big nothing burger. But if he can't hurt Fulton then obvioiusly this has the potential to be a massive storyline. Fulton at this point must feel better about his chances, he and his team has to feel that Inoue's ability to hurt or KO him have been drastically reduced. Whether or not that will play out in the ring is anyone's guess, but all this has to help Fulton's confident going into this.

 

So inoue agreed not to directly put tape to the skin for this fight?

 

lol you just said winning were pillows. So he's been KOing people with pillows?

 

Apparently.

 

Interesting. You gotta credit Inoue for that, he could have made a big fuss about it.

 

The winning gloves he uses, the black ones, don't look soft. They look pretty tight and hard. They're not long that look like they have a lot of soft padding or anything.

You made it seem like he chose to not wear his normal gloves and decided to wear a softer "pillow-like" glove (winning) when he's been using winning, so it's the same gloves as what he always wears.

 

I guess, it's a little weird for him to do that if in fact it's legal. What I'm trying to find out is how many other fighters (in America, UK, or anywhere) actually wrap their hands that way, with tape applied to the glove. Has there been any high profile fights (ever) where we can confirm that other fighters have applied tape directly to the hands like Inoue did?

And what about the claim that it was Donaire who wraps his hands that way and he got Inoue to wrap his hands that way? Is there any truth to that? (some have said this) If that's true then Inoue is being told by his last 2 opponents how to wrap his hands. Which is mind boggling if true.

 

is really not a difficult concept.