Stephon Fulton, Jr. vs. Naoya Inoue & Robeisy Eloy Ramirez Carrazana vs. Satoshi Shimizu RBR.

I scored every round for Inoue but you could give Fulton one of them, no problem. Can't see two, tho.

To his credit, Fulton didn't go into survival mode. He actually stopped boxing and started trying to win via knockout. I don't think his performance was as bad as it looked, he just had no answers. All I ever ask is for a fighter to prepare the right way and try to win, and for me Fulton did that.

He's also a champion fighting in his challenger's home country, getting introduced first, etc. Fulton has nothing to be ashamed of.

 

You and the rest of the bandwagon Fulton fangirls who only started caring about Fulton when the possibility of fighting Inoue begun. The usuals who pick fighters to win not cause of their ability but cause of something else who doesn't matter one bit in the ring.

Face it YDKSAB.

 

Love spotting my nomenclature in the wild.

My only problem with giving him the 7th is that when Fulton belted him with that big right, the reply came swift & hard and effectively shut down any immediate follow-up on that success. I'm seeing people claim the onscreen graphic showed Fulton out-landing Inoue that round; I'd be willing to give it an isolated careful rewatch, but from memory in real-time it only seemed like Fulton was maybe declaring himself "in the fight" in a meaningful way (showing that he did possess the courage, timing and precision to score with a bomb like that) in that one fleeting moment, which Inoue canceled out with his return salvo.

 

Was pulling for Fulton but credit to Inoue the man is the truth respect

 

He was moving up anyways - I don’t think it would have been seen as a duck. He could have made good money at 126.

 

Presumably he means the many pre-fight comments that Inoue was too small or too basic and that Fulton would school him. A large majority picked Inoue, and by KO, but there was a sizable and vocal minority clinging to a belief that in a pure boxing contest, Fulton was a shoe-in.

 

He had to fight him. He was a p4p fighter and a big name to.

 

Inoue was simply better period. He tried but wasn't good enough.

 

60-54 is the mandatory halfway point score, though. Zero swing rounds in the first half (they ranged from 10-9.0 up to maybe 10-9.25)

Seventh like I said, I'm willing to revisit. More in deference to my respect for the judgment of Drew than anything. Had it just been habitual distal limb-sitter shadow, then probably nah.

 

No one is respecting Scooter for daring to be great and taking this fight. Just shitting on him. He did it for the fans and the fan hate him.

 

Hold on skills pay the bills and Fulton isn't slick. Shakur Stevenson is slick but Fulton isn't. I could say the same thing about people who thought Marshall would simply walk through and ko Shields that they don't know **** about boxing. Sometimes you make a wrong pick it happens

 

Yeah it was odd to see them almost stepping on each other's toes several times, which is not something you usually see between two orthodox boxers. They were jockeying for front foot position a surprising amount.

 

Manny of the ones hating on him are his bandwagon fangirls. He's a pretty good fighter and was the best at 122 until today he just went against a generational talent that isn't going to get beat anytime soon. He needs to back in the gym gain his confidence back and maybe move up and try to win a belt at 126.

 

Fair. But, it should be noted that Fulton managed to partially deflect a lot of the return fire in that particular frame. Not all of it certainly, but enough for me to think "Inoue hasn't quite caught me eye this time like he has in the past few round." And then there was a nice closing flourish where Fulton landed a cuffing right and a very clean up jab of his own and managed to blunt the force of Inoue's return fire as the bell sounded. That was enough for me to say he shaded the frame, given the informal edict against giving even rounds.

Kind of plays into the overall story of Fulton trying his damndest to find a way into the fight, actually managing to open the door a crack and then promptly having Inoue shut it in its face, like great ones tend to do.