Did anyone watch the Inkin v. Zuniga fight? What was Inkin like?

i watched about 5 or 6 rounds of highlights which were shown on german tv.

very low key fight from the looks of it, inkin the cleaner puncher , could not miss with the right hand.

both were very slow of hand and foot and looking at the highlights it did not seem to be a fight of high quality or much drama.

zuniga had inkin off balance with punches a couple of times and inkin landed flush right hands on zuniga , seemingly at will.

inkin was able to slip and block zuniga`s wide punches and zuniga throws nothing down the pipe.

but it was highlights and possibly biased and so i could not score or say how the rest of the fight went with any certainty.

zuniga as i have said quite a few times is a decent gatekeeper, but thats all , and inkin is well schooled offensivley and defensivley, but he is so damn slow .

towards the 11th and 12th round i had to check whether i had touched the slow motion button on the remote due the slowness of the punches being delivered by both fighters.

 

They didn't look like they could hurt each other at all.

Inkin controlled the fight, and he was satisfied picking his shots without risking too much. Inkin's defense is pretty good and every time zuniga opened up, Inkin could land his straight right. I thought Zuniga could give him some problems by being physical, but there was no explosiveness in his punches and the entire fight was fought in a monotonous tempo.

 

I think he regressed, same as Zuniga - Inactivity hurts as much as fighting bums to blow up your record...

 

Both fighters looked very average, and even though Inkin won an easy UD, he is not going to change anything in the division IMO.

 

it showed that he is capable of beating gatekeepers and has the basic skills to be competitive.

but IMO speed will hurt him stylistacally and the divisions 2 best bute and kessler would both have to much arsenal/speed and abilty for inkin to do anything about it.

inkin took a couple of zuniga flush shots and his chin is ok , but he fights in 2nd to 3rd gear all the time and has no change of pace .

IMO not a long title reign unless matched carefully.

zuniga can continue to be a gatekeeper and he will win some and lose some at that level.

fighters with abilty and he will lose, but good enough to beat the wannabee`s and third tier fighters .

he is the south american version of tatovesyan.

 

IMO the best chance inkin has of making money is if he takes his show on the road and does chase the big fights.

he can get small change fighting erdei type top 100 opponents but not sure they will even be televised and i cannot see him being a top of the bill fighter in germany or on german tv.

double headers maybe.

a bute/froch/taylor/kessler promoter could buy this belt from inkin as i beleive they will have much more financial support than kohl will give inkin ,and a big payday for inkin would be the reward.

froch he could beat maybe technically ,if he lasts the route.

a fighter like andrade would be tough for inkin.

andrade can throw all night and inkin simply does not have the workrate to keep up and does not use his legs to get away.

he is very solid fundamentally, just has no x factors.

 

inkin has no chance of making 20 title defenses because 1 he is not good enough and 2 he does not have the financial or tv backing in germany to build him up.

inkin has very rarely had fights televised , his by far bigest fight to date was against veit and that was because there was a german taking part.

perhaps in russia he could get some bigger following , but i have no idea on that score.

the belt does give him something that other promoters will want though for there fighters and he might be seen as the easiest route to a belt .

froch does not have great marketabilty himself at the moment outside of nottingham but i could see the fight happening if froch were to beat pascal somewhere down the line if they were both stillchamps.

 

I'm surprised and disappointed by the outcome of this fight. A couple of posters said it was fought at a slow pace. Slow pace and Zuniga are pretty much polar opposites, so that really surprise me. Fulgencio needs to drop back down to 160, and stay there. Abraham and Pavlik will move up soon, and Winky is getting old.