Let's be honest, Inoue has fought trash. I don't care how many world champions he's beaten or how many knockouts he's registered he's fought trash and his glossy stats are thick with smoke and mirrors Don't let the boxing hipsters fool you into believing that some of these leprechaun toddler divisions he's campaigned in are actually serious divisions or have any talent or depth in them. They not and they don't and, just like many of the woman's divisions still are it's easy to become a world champion in them because there's no depth or talent and they're full of featherfists. It's also much easier to become a multi-weight champs in them too You move up 3lbs and you're a two-weight champ 6lbs and you're a three-weight one 9lbs and you're a four-weight one and you can achieve that without having fought anyone who actually possesses any genuine talent or who can punch the froth off a cappuccino or at best maybe only one or two leprechauns who can actually fight and punch You think it's a coincidence that Inoue's chin has been exposed now that he's fighting opponents his own size in a serious division albeit one which, like 118 when he campaigned down there, is currently extremely weak? Why do you think he had to be forced into finally agreeing to fight MJ after shamelessly ducking him. Because whilst MJ isn't nothing to write home about he can punch and does actually possess some talent and skills and isn't a senior citizen who has been in countless wars and bested many times like Nonito. Inoue was categorically shamed into agreeing to taking the fight, assuming he actually still doesn't find a way to wriggling out of it again. The samurai moral code Bushido went out the window when Inoue's nostrils caught scent of MJ on the prowl and Inoue's own countrymen were disgusted by his lack of honour and courage and they shamed him into agreeing to take the fight. Had they not I promise you he never would've done so. His chin has been completely exposed now and it's only a matter of time before he gets KTFO Featherfists Fulton knocked Inoue's head back about 3ft when he actually decided to throw a 'power' punch. Go watch it again if you don't believe me Let's not forget Inoue got dropped by the exact same punch in two separate fights, both in the 1st round, for goodness sake. I've literally never seen this ever happen to an elite fighter or a so called elite one. It was virtually a year to the day he was dropped by that exact same punch and he learned absolutely nothing in all that time. Embarrassing And it took him 11 rounds to solve the children's puzzle of prising open binman Paul Butler's defence. Butler is trash Loma would never have got dropped by way bigger versions of either of those bums who dropped Inoue, let alone same size versions and twice by the exact same punch and he would've solved the Butler puzzle with ease and got him out of there in well under half the amount of time it took Inoue and every single one of you knows it too.
Look at what Loma's sons Walters and Rigo did to a prime version of Inoue's best win Nonito for goodness sake. Walters and Rigo couldn't win a single second of a single round vs a Loma who still hadn't moved out of 2nd gear but he toyed with Nonito with ease and Walters sent Nonito to the shadow realm. But Walters was bigger than Nonito doe. Yeah, 5lbs bigger, Loma was routinely giving away way more weight than that at 135, like double, triple, or even quadruple vs Haney, whilst giving away huge amounts of reach too but of course these clowns completely ignore this. He was giving away over twice that much weight in just his 2nd pro fight for goodness sake But a Loma who weighs a few pounds more than Inoue with a 2'' shorter reach is way too big for Inoue and it was deemed a criminally unfair fight by the Inoue fangirl boxing hipsters. The were seething with rage and started hating on Loma with a vengeance even more than they usually do just because Loma respectfully answered the question a reporter asked him about whether he would ever consider fighting that fraud from Kanagawa. He didn't call him out for goodness sake. This content is protected ^^^ Criminally unfair fight. Loma is the Antichrist for even mentioning Inoue's name even though he actually didn't bring it up at all Totally fair fight and that's a slimmed down version of Haney. The natural size disparity was more than that This content is protected Inoue rehydrating more weight in his 4th weight class (5th from the one he started out at than Loma was in his 1st weight class. Loma tiny but Inoue clearly a massive weight bully Nothing more needs to be said than this When that photo was taken 135 << Loma here 130 126 122 118 << Inoue was here Timestamped Listen to what someone who has shared a ring with both Loma and Inoue has to say about their respectively skill level and abilities. This content is protected And Inoue turned pro at 19 not a few months before his 26th birthday. If Loma turned pro at the same age he sure as hell wouldn't only be a three, four or five weight champion, dumbasses And he didn't have the huge luxury and advantage of fighting out of his homeland like Inoue has done for the vast majority of his career or hailing from a 'cool' country like Inoue which makes the hipsters jizz their pants because they think fanboying for leprechaun child sized fighters from them makes them look oh so cool It's a shame we'll never get to see Loma vs Inoue because all these boxing hipsters who think they're oh so cool would end up with lashings of egg all over their smug faces after Loma toys with Inoue in his sleep. Loma is levels above Inoue he would utterly outclass and embarrass him and 100% knock him out and I've never been more confident of anything in my life
Apparently all his opposition is now rubbish? Yeah it's just pure luck to climb through the weights and smash guys to pieces Inoue is a great boxer. He is everything you want in a fighter. Awesome skills, power and he seeks to destroy. Even the slight vulnerability to being dropped adds to the mystique It's not often you get a fighter like this in the lower weight categories. Pacquiao was asked his current favourite fighter and I'm sure you are not surprised it's inoue
Lomachenko should have fought Tank. He had a good chance of winning. Or be spectacularly knocked out, but I suspect Loma is too smart to let that happen and would have exploited Tank's defensive weaknesses like Lamont did. But we'll never know, Loma opted to not fight when everything was set for it to happen. That will detract from his legacy. The Monster on the other hand, keeps fighting the best of the division, conquering that division, then moves up to the next one and repeats fighting all the contenders and champions and unifying the title. Instant HOF.
Inoue is the greatest ever at blowing away potato peelers and deliveroo drivers. Wake me up when he smokes fools at 130 or above. Loma took on much better competition, it's not even close.
100% This. And comparing the leprechaun divisions to womens boxing is a good comparison. 'Multi weight world champion' has a very watered down, lesser meaning in those divisions because it's so much easier to do. The weight divisional differences are tiny, the numbers of fighters per weightclass are much smaller, and the competition is weaker because a lot of the best countries/ regions of boxing don't have fighters that small.
Fun fact - Japan haven't had a single welterweight world champion ever. & Welterweight is a division with the most amount of boxers, globally the entire world competes in that division.
Loma fought GRJ in the US with a home ref and three home judges A much bigger Teofimo in the US with a home ref and three home judges. The same have gloves won't travel 'warrior' Teofimo who categorically refused to fight Josh Taylor in the UK when Taylor held all four belts, 2 of which he won in the US in JCR's backyard with a home ref and three home judges Twink also ducked Taylor when he was undisputed. Apparently the undisputed champ and P4P ranked Taylor ''brought nothing to the table'' but the mighty Barrios with his fake WBA regular title and all the other cans Twink's fought did A way bigger Haney in the US with a home ref and three home judges. A 20lb bigger, near six inch longer reach, in his backyard with a 36 hour weigh in He also fought Pedraza, Martinez, Sosa, Ortiz in the US with a home ref and three home judges And a Ukrainian fighting a Mexican (Salido) in Texas is tantamount to a home match for the Mexican. Hence why Salido was allowed to get away with blue murder and well over 50 low blows without so much as a hard warning, let alone pts deducted or being DQ'd which he 100% should've One of the three home judges scored the GRJ fight a draw. Loma won 10 rounds and beat the crap out of GRJ One of the three home judges scored the Teofimo fight 119-109 to Teofimo despite Loma clearly sweeping most of the rounds in the 2nd half of the fight One of the judges (granted Nakatani is obviously not from the US) gave Nakatani 2 rounds vs Loma despite the fight being a one-sided brutal massacre and Nakatani not winning a single second of the fight But people expected an old well past prime Loma to return to the scene of the crime where he was cruelly robbed of a huge part of his legacy and making history twice and where the judges have done him dirty many times to fight Twink and Shakur in the their country with home refs and three home judges where he would have to KO them to come away with draw but not one of these fighters or any current fighter from over there has or ever will do once what he has done at least seven times ie. fight their foreign opponent in their backyard/country with a home ref and three home judges. It's literally never happened or ever will Just come over here and let us rob you again, Loma. Come and do yet again what none of our boys have or ever will do once in their entire careers, and when it inevitably happens again we'll cheer on the corruption and dismiss you an overrated hype job I wish he learned his lesson the first time and packed his bags and headed elsewhere This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected Twink 2019: ''Loma an old man. I'll retire him'' Devin Haney 2020: ''Loma is too old too slow'' Devin Haney in 2023: ''Don't say Loma is old'' Floyd 2019: ''Lomachenko needs to fight as many fights as possible, extremely quick!, because he's very very old''
Pro and amateur combined - it's Loma by far, it's not not even a question. Just Pros - it's Inoue on paper. But if you look at things logically like weight divisional differences of being a 'multi weight champ', quality of opposition, performances, judges corrupt decisions etc.. It's Loma.
The women's divisions are still in the relative infancy and obviously the lower ones have much more depth than the higher ones albeit still not too much depth, the men's leprechaun toddler divisions have been around for ages and they're still full of featherfists and puny weaklings
Inoue is my 3rd current favourite fighter and I even moved the late great Mike McCallum out of my all time top 10 favs list to make a space for Inoue in there. McCallum climbs the ladder and is back in again and Inoue slides down the snake right out of the top 1000 thanks to the Inoue hipster fanboys for their constant and totally unnecessary hating on Loma who, again, would totally outclass and embarrass Inoue and knock him out and deep down they know it too I'm going to turn the entire internet against Inoue and make him a pariah in his own country