DUCK SAUCE: Team Fulton Swerves Naoya Inoue—Tells Monster Come To 126!

If Fulton does run up to 126 just as Inoue has departed 118 with the intention of going on Fulton and strap season safari it will be a cast-iron duck. Not saying he will but if he does there's no ambiguity about it at all. He knows Inoue wants that smoke, he says he wants it too and that he's willing to travel to Japan for it, and they both know the fans want to see it

It was announced he was moving up like a month before Inoue vs Butler which he knew full well was Inoue's last fight at 118 but he replied to this tweet with this the other day so hopefully he's planning on running towards that Kanagawa smoke and not away from it

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His next reply was ''I've never vacated poop what the beep are you talking about''

Maybe witnessing the 10 round defensive masterclass Paul Butler administered to Inoue the other week has imbued him with the confidence not to run away from that Japanese heat. He'll be thinking to himself that Inoue struggled with Butler's slickness and maybe Inoue's power won't be as effective up at 122 against big 122 pounders as it has been at the lower weights and he may well be right because we know that this has often been the case with big punchers who've moved up one division too far.

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He fought the vast majority of the fight with badly broken ribs and two broken wrists

 

Imagine you're the biggest, baddest guy in the bar but people keep telling you there's another guy who drops by sometimes who is a real bad mofo who could kick you ass and then you turn to them and say we'll see about that and that he best not drop by while I'm here because I'm going to paddle his ass something terrible only for you to then duck out the fire escape the instance he arrives

That's the scenario we're dealing with here

 

Butler Willie Pep'd him all night ie. winning rounds on defence alone. His defence was too slick for Inoue's offence right up until the end

Butler's defence was better than Inoue's offence for 10 rounds, whereas, conversely, Inoue's offence was only better than Butler's defence for 1 round. It was a 10-1 schooling but lucky for Inoue his offence in that one round was enough to wipe out the 10 round deficit. I ain't gonna call it a lucky punch but it kind of was because the better man who dominated pretty much the entire fight went home with an L that night.