Naoya Inoue keeping it 100% real, says he's too green/not ready for Chocolatito

Smart move. Monster is a fitting name, but another year of seasoning would help him tremendously. It's insane what he's accomplished already as a pro- he's just giving Roman and a potential match with him the respect it deserves. It's going to take something special to beat Chocolatito. Inoue could be the guy, but he's not there yet.

 

yeah he probably needs more than 8 fights. not rocket science

 

Ok, real talk here :good

But Roman isn't safe forever...

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Smart career move...This fight will be epic when it does happen.

 

He beat the champ at the division above Gonzalez and the champ in the division below Gonzalez. His jump over Gonzalez division now looks like a duck. It looks like HBO has been doing all sorts of things trying to get him to fight in the states for the express purpose of building up a fight with Gonzalez and he wants to take the exposure plus extra money without ever fighting the opponent they are building him up for? This sounds like Ward inking a deal with HBO to fight Kovalev in a year and then possibly weaseling out after some ****ty tune up fights.

He's bigger than Gonzalez and will likely grow out of that upper division in a year or two to one that Gonzalez can't make.

Who's he signed with? I know he got injured a year ago and that accounted for some of his layoff, but he's been inactive longer than it takes to heal and I thought he was trying to change management or promoters to get some U.S. representation connected to HBO. Haymon got Tomoki Kameda over here. I wonder if he's bending Inoue's ear now?

 

zolani tete! these 2 should fight him

 

Inoue needs to prove himself against The Baby Faced Assassin Paul Butler, while Gonzalez needs to take the test and fight Prince Patel. If they both win, then we'll talk but the hunch is the world will be demanding Butler v Patel instead.

 

:deal

Paul Butler is one of the best at super fly. He was fighting a middleweight in tete, and it was a 1 out of a million punch. :thumbsup

 

Yep. That punch would've ko'd Vitali Klitschko

 

butler got up and was ready to do tete in but the ref foolishly called it off. :-(

 

He's signed with Ohashi, there is NO Haymon link at all, hence the talk with HBO. He injured his hand then re-injured it. There has been NO SUGGESTION of signing with anyone else and has been spending time sparring left handed at the Ohashi gym. Him and Mr Ohashi appear to have an excellent relationship with the Ohashi gym having a family-like feel to most the guys signed to them.

The "jumping over Flyweight" was due to the fact they couldn't tie Reveco to a title bout last year and instead skipped the division and got Narvaez. Feelers were sent to Reveco from both Inoue and Ioka, though those plans were put on ice as Reveco had to face Yodmongkol in a mandatory, rather than waiting around he decided to make history.