Do you think that Inoue is overrated?

**** no. If anything he's underrated.

 

Well this is a stroke of luck given how Serge just completed his irrefutable scientific breakdown of Inoue vs Floyd a few hours ago. My eyes are sore as **** so if there are any errors here they're weren't intentional.

Inoue was 6-0 and 20 y/o when he won his first world title

Floyd was 18-0 and 21 y/o when he won his first world title

Inoue was 8-0 and 21 y/o when he became a two-weight world champion

Floyd was 29-0 and 25 y/o when he became a two-weight world champion

Inoue was 16-0 and 25 y/o when he became a three-weight world champion

Floyd was 34-0 and 28 y/o when he became a three-weight world champion

So it took Inoue two fights less to become a three-weight world champion than it took Floyd to become a one weight one and he is arguably P4P#1 by his 18th fight and at 26 y/o whereas Floyd didn't become P4P #1 until he was 28 y/o and was 34-0 IIRC, and Inoue is doing the kind of TV views on tape delay that Floyd couldn't even achieve in his wildest dreams.

'This past Saturday Naoya Inoue (18-0, 16) [井上 尚弥] * <<<That's Japanese writing, btw* claimed the IBF Bantamweight title and booked his place in the WBSS final with a second round TKO win over Puerto Rican Emmanuel Rodriguez (19-1, 12).

The bout was shown in Japan via 2 different methods. Firstly the bout was shown live on WOWOW at around 5am, not a great time for a TV audience and given that WOWOW is a subscription service the potential audience is limited. The figures for this airing haven't been revealed, though we can't ever recall WOWOW figures being reported in the Japanese press anyway.

The bout was then shown on tape delay during prime time on Sunday night on Fuji TV, Inoue's usual broadcaster. Fuji, for those unaware, is a terrestrial channel, free to air in the Kanto region, with affiliate across the country, such as Kansai TV. The figures have been reported for this broadcast are truly astonishing, especially for a tape broadcast that was available online and had had the result spoiled.

In Kanto, where over 43,000,000 million people live, the audience share is a 10.3%. By raw numbers that's big, and was an increase of 4.8% from the average of the last 4 weeks in the same time slot. That's almost doubling the average that Fuji are getting for that particular slot.

Things were even more impressive in Kansai, the second largest region where around 23,000,000 people live. Here the broadcast drew 13.5% of the audience a figure up 8.4% on the average of the last 4 weeks, almost tripling the previous few weeks numbers.

The figures for the rest of the country haven't been reported yet, but there's a very, very good chance that this bout broke an audience of 10,000,000 viewers, a staggering number for a tape delay broadcast where fans who were in a rush to watch could have found the bout in full online.

According to sources these were the average numbers as well, not the peak viewership leaving real questions as to just how many people tuned in at some point during the broadcast.

So Inoue>>Floyd and 100% guaranteed prime Inoue wins via KO against a prime Floyd if they were even close to being the same size as each other and that's a FACT, btw.

So Inoue isn't just not overrated he's the greatest fighter of the last 25 years besides Loma

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