Naoya "Email PFP King" Inoue and his place among the least deserving PFP 1s.

Oh.. so he’s deserving of the spot. But in the OP he’s the most UN-deserving. So which is it then? You keep wanting to criticize the list of opponents that Inoue beat and yet you somehow cant even make a case of guys like Shakur, Bam, Benavidez, or Bivol being P4P higher. That leads me to believe that you concede in Inoue’s resume being that good but you just don’t want to admit that.

Time after time you’ve tried going out of your way to discredit Inoue resume by shifting the goal post and even trying to compare him to the likes of Tank, someone who is actually the least deserving of being considered a top P4P fighter even at the time he was still going hot. Inoue not only kept proving you wrong but Tank had continuously kept fumbling the ball and now you’re taking your frustration out by still trying to pick holes in Inoue’s resume. Can’t even hide your own agenda.

It’s obvious that no matter who Inoue beats the goal post will just keep shifting and you’ll never give him his dues. Quite a bizarre hatred towards a fighter that practically does everything the right way.

 

isnt everyone an email p4p king? its not a title that changes hands in a ring

 

Funny because this entire thread is you having a bone to pick on Inoue for some odd reason despite having an outstanding resume. Who does Inoue have to beat to actually win over your good graces? Or are you just going to keep finding excuses to criticize him?

 

Winning a huge high stake fight in the biggest event in Japanese boxing history against another P4P fighter is now considered sitting on his ass?

 

I think with p4p in the past decade there's been a massive bias to the micro-weight guys. Inoue is doing what he's supposed to do, but boxing has become absurd with all the weight classes and belts. There could be 20 "legitimate" world champions across about 12 pounds way down there. No one can get a real sense of what's being accomplished, what the level of competition and talent pools are, etc.

When Inoue got dropped by a 100-1 underdog cab driver a few fights ago, no one blinked an eye. He was credited for his resilience. An old, slow Usyk having a close fight with a much bigger opponent who, let's be real, has comparable experience to a 100-1 cab driver, everyone was there to say he was never great.

Yes, Inoue is an unconvincing p4p #1. Always has been.

 

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I’m guessing this is referring to Crawford. Then funnily enough you say…

And you don’t see the irony?

 

Fulton and Tapales to become undisputed at 122 > Fury, AJ, and Dubois becoming undisputed at heavyweight.

By your standard, Usyk should only be considered a one-weight champion. Cruiserweight was changed from 190 to 200 pounds, and fighters like Opetaia and Usyk at cruiserweight are heavyweights in everything but name. David Haye and Evander Holyfield were real cruiserweights who were genuinely undersized for heavyweight, although Holyfield eventually grew into the division. If there were only nine weight classes, Naoya Inoue would be a two-division champion, which I would still rank higher than Usyk's fake "two-division champ" achievement.

Also, Inoue fights four times a year, so if you don't keep up with the division, you might think he's getting dropped by cab drivers; he's not, hahahaha. These smaller weight classes have the most skilled fighters; if Usyk were the same size as Inoue and fought as often, he would definitely have lost badly.

 

You mean beating up an inactive, weight drained, multiple car crash victim who still hasn’t boxed again 3 years later, then narrowly scraping past a 10 fight novice who had no notable wins and lost his next fight more convincingly? Canelo was a good win, Mayweather, Golovkin and Bivol had all beaten him more widely already and Canelo had looked poor in his last couple fights but still that’s a solid win.

Inoue beating Nakatani is better than anything Crawford ever did. Arguably so is beating Donaire. Guys like Fulton, MJ and Neri would all be among Crawford’s best wins as well.