Naoya Inoue vs Prime Donaire-Current Donaire

Puncher's chance. That's all the current donaire have to beat inoue.

Prime donaire would more than likely give inoue his first loss. The biggest problem current donaire has is that his reflexes are not there anymore as most of the time hes a step behind and that won't be good against inoue.

 

Prime Donaire couldn't put a dent in Narvaez. Inoue smoked him.

 

Impressive as it was we know power ain't everything and donaire himself has enough power to knockout most guys too.

 

Donaire is going to get creamed. Inoue is great.

 

Inoue is way better than Nonito fundamentally and skill wise. Nonito is more of an athletic freak, but Inoue hit harder than Donaire in his prime.

 

Yes i think its already obvious that inoue punches harder even than prime donaire. Im just saying that there are still many factors to consider before saying inoue would beat prime donaire. For example inoue hasn't been chin checked yet, no one has dragged him into deeper waters, still hasn't fought anyone that stylistically has an advantage over him. Im not trying to discredit him at all but i still can't fully asses what inoue is truly capable of when he's just knocking out everyone. He's an offensive monster yes but what happens when that power becomes a non factor.

 

Inoue has never been in with a puncher and he is no defensive wiz.He might want to box than trade hooks with a hooker.

 

I agree he still needs to be tested, but I just think Nonito(although he was really damn good in his prime), gets really overrated here when people say he just runs through Inoue. I think it's a nostalgia thing, a lot of people just favor past fighters far more than our current crop because they have selective memory. Of course Nonito can knockout anyone, but so can Inoue, and Inoue is a lot better fundamentally than Nonito. It would've been an amazing fight in their prime.

 

Prime donaire was an athletic beast with serious power, speed and size combined with counter punching. His prime only really lost to an elite defensive fighter. Haven't seen a lot of Inoue but I hear he also has a hook. I would give donaire an edge since in his prime, every fighter was afraid of trading with him.

 

Inoue is the most powerful puncher P4P in boxing at the moment. He will K.O. Donaire both prime and not prime.

 

Here's why Inoue is and will always be a superior fighter to any version of Donaire—Donaire only has a left hook and Inoue can literally KO anyone with any punch in his arsenal. He's done it.

 

Donaire Prime or Current are top level (that is why he is fighting Inoue)

 

People who does not give Donaire a fighting chance should learn that this is Boxing. Upsets happen.
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