Inoue's Plan Was To KO Rodriguez AT ALL COST...

For some reason, Puerto Ricans always seem to go overboard with the pre fight provocations.

 

Don't think it would have mattered much either way. Even if the Monster had taken it easy it wouldn't have gone past 8.

 

The Japanese are a reserved and respectfully polite nation.

The absolute reverse of the Puerto Ricans , no disrespect but they are loud and very different to the Japanese.

 

That seems harsh. Im sure not all

 

Not surprised. Angry or not i think inoue would have still gotten him. Bad luck for rodriguez he doesn't have enough to take advantage of an emotional inoue.

 

And rightly so - his son was forced to pay for his actions and it was a glorious sight to see him curled up like a fetus after the disrespect.

 

It's a respect thing and you could see it in his stare down,from that moment I knew he was done for.
Goes back to what I been saying about real fighters like Manny and Inoue,these guys are humble,respectful to their opposition but in the ring they're savages and you don't wanna give em any extra incentive in there.

 

Where did you get that quote? That doesn't sound like something Inoue would say, he rarely gets emotional. Unless the marketing team changed and they are encouraging him to say stuff like that to get his own brand up.

 

It was Rodriguez who was boxing with the dumber gameplan, trying to walk Inoue down and exchanging with him. At the start of the second round, Rodriguez got tagged with some good shots, and seemed to lose his cool, and went swinging with Inoue, at which point he got dropped and the fight was over.