Naoya Inoue vs Brandon Figueroa @ 126

True for sure. But figgy would be facing, presumably of course, the hardest puncher he ever faced.

 

Robeisy is good but he's not special, even before the loss to Espinoza I'd have favoured Inoue to break his body due to his reliance on that high guard. His footwork too isn't that great, balanced but not particularly light on his feet, I think he'd struggle with Inoue's speed, get beaten to the punch, forced to lead too much and eats counters as he's forced to press because he can't win on the outside. Inoue stops him in the 2nd half of the fight, in a pretty one sided fight for me.

Espinosa fight would be interesting simply due to the crazy height difference. Inoue's a lot faster but can that make up for such a huge difference in height? Inoue's beaten tall fighters before but Espinosa makes those fighters look short. But I'd still favour Inoue, there is nobody special at 126 just like there was nobody special at 122, other than Inoue.

 

Brandon Figueroa is a very big guy. There's a lot of danger for Inoue in a potential fight like this.

 

Too slow and easy to hit hes tough but as hell so he could make it the full 12. I will be going for my boy fig.

 

I don't know about that one. Figs needs to really tighten up on the D. His, take one to give one approach will be his undoing against Inoue. Unless Inoue's power drops off significantly at 126.

 

Nery is Mexican and Figaroa is of Mexican descent.