Inoue's a massive star in Japan. He brings in big money over there. And Inoue's fought the clear #1 across four divisions starting in his 6th pro fight. He ain't padding or protecting his record.
I mean, it's all relative. He can stay fighting bums and get that bank, but he's hunting down and destroying belt holders.
The Saudi Prince apparently is on a bender. One day, he gets a wild hair up his butt and says he wants to spend $200 million for a Fury-Usyk/Wilder-Joshua doubleheader ... and demands his spokesman issue a release. Everyone stops what they are doing ... because they know he has the money. And everyone wants it. Then the Saudi Prince has to build a stadium first. People wait. Then he does a hundred more lines that week and has to go on vacation and race his yacht against Mou Mou's yacht. Then they crash and a bunch of prostitutes die, and they blow up the wreckage and do some more lines ... and fly somewhere else and order all the people buried who died in the heat building the new stadium and get more people to come work on it ... before flying off on their next drug-fueled party adventure. Meanwhile, Eddie Hearn has boxing scribes asking him every day when the fight will be signed. The spokesman keeps saying he'll know when the Prince tells him. Meanwhile, the prince is lost in a haze of all the drugs he can buy and doesn't even remember who Eddie Hearn is. The money is there. But a whackjob is holding the purse strings. So everyone is willing to fight if and when the Saudi prince sobers up long enough to remember he thought something was a "good idea" a few months ago. But, as fans, nobody wants to wait anymore. And nobody is going to remember the Saudi prince's name when talking about why Fury or Usyk didn't do this or that. Fighters have a relatively short shelf life. If they want to wait around for a big payday that may or may not come, that's on them. But fans just pick the next fighter to follow and move on. We aren't getting paid for this. We were fans of the sport before Fury, Joshua, Wilder and Usyk ... and we'll be fans of the sport when other heavyweights replace them and they fade away.
As long as they don't bait Fury Usyk and keep selling us crap in till Usyk is 40 years old and Fury only has to lean on him once which will crush him. People are judging Fury out of shape as bad news but people don't understand that he has high miles on him same as Usyk. To put in a full hard camp for Francis in October does more harm than good if they are expecting to make the big fight early next year.
Usyk fought Joshua, got ducked by Fury and Wilder would duck anyone remotely decent... then not having those fights to make he has mandatories to deal with and doesn't get to decide to fight Ruiz/Zhang etc. He might be small, but at least he's a real champ. The final belt for undisputed is, sadly, cursed to only belong to frauds, it seems.
Joshua isn’t another stiff for Wilder to pad his resume with. Wilder is a fraud and unsurprisingly has run for the hills.
Wilder's the only one actually in camp right now, other than Ngannou. Joshua isn't. He's hanging out with KS1. Usyk isn't. Fury clearly isn't, given his stomach. Andy Ruiz isn't.
I had no faith that it would be lined up anyways just the usual regurgitated boxing talk that goes no where.