Top Rank on ESPN: Naoya Inoue vs. Luis Esteban Nery Hernández & Masago Akui vs. Taku Kuwahara II RBR

Tell that to your fellow quite demented Crawford true believers, who bizarrely think he's going to "school" Canelo. I've never once called for that match, that being said... I'd love to see it made.

 

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There are. This is why they need to do something about weight bullying, because that reason you're alluding to is supposed to ensure we have fair fights between relatively equal sized fighters. Not that there was any weight bullying in this fight though.

Inoue and Nery looked about the same size as each other to me but I don't know what their weights were. I believe Inoue can win world titles at 126 but, as with Loma at 135, he's going to start running into some very big boys at 130 and even the massive weight bullies at 126 are going to pose him lots of problems, especially if they also have much longer reaches than him. It's not just weight, power, punch resistance of these bigger guys or much bigger guys at the higher weights smaller fighters have to contend against when they move up it's reach too.

 

Beterbiev maybe, Benavidez doubtful. It took him 6 rounds to TKO glass jawed bum Andrade. Canelo's defense is sound enough to evade most of what's coming at him. Beterbiev on the other hand, will rabbit punch him into a brain bleed.

 

Yes but it defeats the whole purpose of having weight classes in the first place, Olu. They need to find some way to get fighters campaigning in or much closer to their natural weight class. I don't know what the solution is. Bringing back same day weighs, monitoring fighter's weight all year which could be done with an app, but we sure as have to get rid of these 36 hour before the fight weigh ins. If you have two fighters in the ring and one is two or three divisions bigger than the other with a much bigger reach it's just not fair.

You can also have fighters who hit extremely hard for their size and weight whose power is devastating even for much bigger fighters than them, you stick a 2-3 division lighter opponent in with them and it's way more dangerous