Before 2025 starts: your retrospection on Inoue's Super Bantam run.

You can only beat the guys in front of you. Fulton is a great win imo, Nery is legit, and Tapales while not exceptional is still solid and was coming off the biggest win of his career. If Inoue adds MJ, Picasso, Goodman, and Junto to his list of scalps at 122 like he plans to then it would be a truly legendary run.

 

See, that's what I was was referring to in my original post. People are not going to properly read each word in the post, and will start saying that Idksab just because I disagree with them. I literally even said Inoue is top 3 P4P because his overall resume is way better than that of his contemporaries. That's because those contemporaries include the likes of Tank, Boots and the Charlos. But making Inoue's 122 foes out to be an outstanding bunch because the lower divisions ''generally are'' is just a false equivalence.

Fulton was the only one who had beaten more than just 1 notewothy name in that division. Nery only has the wins over a past it Yamanaka at 118, but he was on PEDs in the first fight and weighed in as a FW in the second fight, never even managing to defeat a proper title holder at 122 prior to fighting Inoue, only winning a bunch of Silver or vacant Mickey Mouse titles. Doheny lost to everyone, and Tapales's only world class win in his entire career is his SD over MJ. That's the murderer's row that Canelo would be afraid to fight ? Nonsense, they're impressive and dominant wins over solid comp, but nothing special.

 

thank you, and even Fulton, while good, you could see he was nothing special and that’s why most people expected Inoue to beat him…

Inoue fanboys like to retroactively make it seem like all of his opponents are great, digging through their records, sometimes even amateur careers to justify it….

It’s strange, especially when literally no one refutes that Inoue is great and top 3 p4p - we just don’t have to pretend he’s beating great fighters to appreciate his greatness….. because he’s not.

 

Most here are either just ignorant or have forgotten true greatness due to how weak most divisions are, currently. People were saying that Inoue was greater than Fighting Harada after defeating Fulton, saying that Harada only had the 2 Jofre wins to his name No mention of Pone Kingpetch, Alan Rudkin, Hiroyuki Ebihara (possibly the most offensive case of a fighter not being in the HoF), Jose Medel, Bernardo Caraballo, or his robbed win against Johnny Famechon.

While Inoue beating the likes of Paul Butler, Jason Moloney and an old ass Narvaez and Donaire the second time around ? Clearly superior to being 1-1 (the win being a KO and the loss being controversial, at that) against a top 10 Flyweights ever in Kingpetch and being 2-0 over the Golden Bantam himself. McDonell, Payano and Rodriguez ? Clearly a better bunch of Bantams than Hudkins, Caraballo and Medel. You can't make this **** up.