Naoya "El Monstruo de Japón/The 1.65m Godzilla/怪物 (Kaibutsu/Monster)" Inoue - acknowledge him!

This is easily one of the idiotic posts I've seen you write. What an uninformed childish assessment of some of the most thrilling divisions in the sport. What? Are you like legendary "size queen" Vince McMahon, and have a big guy fetish? That's a silly built in bigoted bias that you need to rid yourself of immediately. You're depriving yourself of so much joy and entertainment with this mindset. Inoue's matches are thrilling, and his KO's put those of Fury and Joshua to shame. He's the lower division equivalent of Deontay Wilder, with the skillset of Oleksandr Usyk. Fine, I get the joy you feel in watching Usyk, the man is a monumental talent and my favorite fighter. But the vast majority of HW's are overweight sluggish skilless bores, who gas out after 4 or 5 rounds, and hug one until until one of them falls over from sheer exhaustion. With the little guys, you're guaranteed not 4 or 5 rounds, but usually 12 or less depending on whether it ends in a KO, of sheer unbridaled carnage. Go watch Inoue-Donaire 1 either for the first time or again, if you think that's boring... check your pulse.

 

You also need to take a step back and assess the career of Manny Pacquiao through the casual lens that most are currently applying to Naoya Inoue. Manny greatly benefitted from all four of those fighters getting a ton of exposure on HBO beforehand, where people were exposed to what quality operators they truly were. Without that, all we'd be hearing about is Pacquiao beating Mexican three cab drivers, specifically Barrera's 3 L's, Morales' 3 L's and Marquez's 2 L's, and that those wins weren't impressive in the least. Especially considering he lost to Morales, and got a gift win and draw over Marquez. They'd also bring up his two early KO losses, and ignore how he got revenge x2 on Morales and only fixate on the loss. Also, the luster and allure of Cotto was pretty badly fading already. He basically won both his match against Paulie and Clottey due to a knockdown, and even then it's kind of debatable. He got a bit of a gift against Mosley and had been thoroughly destroyed by Margarito. Without HBO being there every step of the way for us, walking us through this, how would history and boxing forums everywhere judge Pacquiao at 30 if it was up to people boxrecing and YouTubing his history? They'd be doing the same thing you're doing now with Inoue, probably even worse.

 

How many matches have you actually seen of fighters Featherweight and below?

 

Rectify that immediately. Try not to judge a fighter and stereotype several boxing divisions based on a few highlights. Try not to have such prejudice against and a fixed opinion of something, that you've never given a chance to begin with.

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