Naoya Inoue Vs. Stephen Fulton Weigh In and Face/Off (!!!)

Team Fulton managed to get Inoue to do his wrap differently. That has to be seen as a mental victory in their minds. They go into Japan and start making demands about how Inoue must wrap his hands, and Team Inoue agrees. Pretty ballsy for them to do that. And to get Inoue to agree, it's a little surprising because given Inoue's twitter post about how he follows Japan rules, that made it sound like he was gonna wrap the normal since it's legal. But then he agrees to do it differently, presumably because Fulton's trainer said he'd pull out if he didn't. But would he really pull out, or was he bluffing? I guess we'll never know.

As far as where it's legal (specifically tape applied directly to the skin) I'm not sure (and correct me if I'm wrong) that it's actually laid out in the rules that you are prohibited from doing it. Perhaps in some states (like NY?) or in the UK it actually says in the rules that you can't apply tape directly to the skin? It sounds like something that perhaps isn't specifically addressed in the rules in some places, and therefore the argument is that since it's not in the rules that you can't do it, it's legal. What I'd like to know is are there examples of fighters who've actually done it like Inoue did it, with tape first, in Nevada, or anywhere else in the world.

Like in any big fights, where hand wrapping are filmed, are there examples of fighters who have wrapped their hands that way?

 

Winning gloves are known for having foam padding, they still weigh the same. The issue was the clip of Inoue getting 1.5 inch tape applied (pieces) in layers over the back of the hand, if Spence was getting his hands wrapped like that if he fought pac while Pac is wrapping his hand with pre wrap first, would you be calling out spence?

 

So if Spence would apply tape directly to the skin, while Pac used a prewrap that would be OK to you?

 

In this case, there was no education from Inoue to Fulton. The un-educated (Fulton's trainer) got Inoue to agree to do it differently, so you can't exactly say get educated when the person who supposedly was the one who knew the rules was forced to do it differently. This begs the question, why. If it was illegal, Fulton shoudl have been "educated" about what was legal and then be forced to fight. That wasn't what happened. Fulton's trainer got his way. Does that concern you or are you OK with that?

 

No, but when it's layered in that fashion it creates a cast. Inoue has power that's a fact nobody is disputing that, but calling Fulton a ***** for raising concern about how his hands are wrapped is out of line.

 

Does all this give Fulton a mental edge? And why would Inoue go with pillows (winning)? You're interpreting that as Inoue being so confident that he's KOing Fulton that he's willing to handicap himself here. But why should he have to? Why shouldn't he be allowed to wrap his hands the way he does if it's legal? And how do you know that Inoue going with Pillows (winning gloves) was voluntary? How do we know that he decided to wear pillows on his own, to prove a point? How do we know that wasn't also a demand from Fulton's camp?

 

So everybody can wrap their hands however they want. Great, no need for commissions. **** them all, those corrupt *******s!

 

But in this case, one side is NOT LETTING the other do what they allegedly can. So you can't say it's a difficult concept since Inoue literally agreed to the same demands that you say Fulton's side isn't understanding.