How Do You Beat Naoya Inoue?

True but in the rematch he showed he'd fully grown into the division and had also improved his movement. The Inoue we have now is a better fighter than the one that struggled with Donaire. Plus Inoue was injured early in the first fight that hampered his performance.

But you are right, he's not invincible. He'll likely lose at some point, especially if he keeps looking to fight the best in each division. It's just impossible to be 100% for every fight and if you are only facing top guys in back to back fights, it's only a matter of time before he has an off night or simply burns out and ends up losing.

 

Lomas style would beat Inoue.

 

Yes.

 

Very interesting match up. Pac had a style that would be effective.

 

You have to let him age
That's the only way

 

I think Fulton will show what it takes to beat inoue in 4 weeks time.

 

Drag him up to cruiserweight

 

If anything, surviving Donaire, like so few did in those lower divisions were Noni himself was a Monsta was super impressive. I was very worried in both fights as Noni came riding TKO waves over world champs and he was completely cold cut him in the 2nd fight. That was the career defining win for Inoue, and we learnt in the previous one that he can take a massive punch and fight thru hell to win.

 

He got his orbital bone broken by an old man who was a shadow of himself. He was forced to go tooth and nail. I know your a big fan, but call a spade a spade. A prime Donaire would have stopped him that night.

 

Exactly. Unlike these clowns who haven't seen the fight and claim Inoue went life and death with Donaire and use that fight as a way to downgrade him for me it's the opposite for me that was Inoue s best fight. Before that fight we knew he had great skills we knew he had terrific power we didn't know if he could take a punch that fight showed he can take a great shot, We didn't know about his heart and how he would handle adversity but after that fight where he suffered a broken orbital bone early in the fight and was seeing double for most of the fight he showed amazing heart and showed there's no quitting in him. That fight erased any doubts I had about him.

I already knew Inoue was a great fighter before the first Donaire fight but afterwards I knew he was a special once in a generation fighter that will not get beat by anyone unless he makes some ridiculous move to a much higher division than the one he's gonna fight next.

 

The final score totals was certainly not life and death but I think it's fair to say a couple of the rounds were. Either way, for the most part Inoue was clearly the better fighter

 

With a baseball bat.

Or gun.