Oscar Manuel Collazo vs. Neider Valdez Aguilar & Ruslan Abdullaev vs. Orestes Velazquez RBR.

inoue’s walk around weight is like 140?

 

My point still applies. A 112-pound boxer is only about 10 pounds lighter than a 122-pound boxer, so their walk-around weights are probably separated by a similar margin. Yeah, Collazo is probably closer to 20 pounds lighter than Inoue, but even then, making fun of a boxer for his size is childish; just like mocking any other trait he can't control.

The flyweight divisions have produced some of the most entertaining fighters in boxing history: Humberto Gonzalez, Wonjongkam, Jung Koo Chang, Chartchai Chionoi, Khaosai Galaxy, Rosendo Alvarez, Estrada, and Jorge Arce. That's not even mentioning current fighters like Simsri, Yabuki, and Bam.

Don't limit your enjoyment of great boxing because the fighters look small. Most of these flyweights have 10x the skill and heart of your favorite heavyweight.

 

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A great photo of the flyweight champion Chartchai Chionoi.

 

I can't stand this site's image embedding. I have been trying for 20 minutes.

 

I won’t necessarily say heart, plenty of heavyweights have plenty of heart. But skill, yeah, your average flyweight has more skill in his big toe than your average heavyweight has in his whole body. It isn’t even close.

to move up a bit as an example of the skill, some of the sequences from the Inoue-Nakatani fight are absolutely unreal in slow-motion. There’s one where one guy throws first (can’t remember who), the other counters, the other counters the counter, both just hit air by about a millimeter as both slip the shots, both recognize what happened, and both laugh. All in the span of like a half second.