The Japanese cards that shook the world!!!

You clearly are a pretty angry young man who needs to vent about something you view as some grave injustice.

 

And by doing so you point it at a guy who covers fightcards all over the world, from countries most US citizens never even heard of.
So what if he didn't find this one to be significant enough to do a complete RbR about at some unholy hour at the end of the year? Give it a rest.

 

Jeez. Well done you said some fights were not mismatches when some other people said they were. You were right, we get it. Now give it a rest.

I bet if 20 years ago you'd have picked Douglas you'd still be banging on about it now.

 

I’m no expert on Inoue , but he seems to have the star quality to me. Unreal.

I could see him making a Pacquiao-like run through the divisions and becoming huge in Japan and maybe even in the US.

 

:yep

For the record, Narváez vs. Inoue was and still is the most notable and important of last week's many bouts in Japan.

I was incorrect about its competitiveness (and not alone in that) - but that doesn't suddenly lessen the significance of it and to say it does unfairly cheapens Inoue's accomplishment.

Jimenez, Taguchi, and Guevara deserve props for making the most of their opportunities and performing as well as they did in the underdog role and, in the latter two cases, fulfilling their world title dreams (and in Jimenez's case scoring at least the moral victory of forcing a hard-earned draw on Kono) - but none of their deeds, and this is meant with all due respect, was even a blip on the radar compared with Inoue's shocking and violent usurping of Narvaez. Yes, capturing a world title means something - but everything is relative. Defeating a weak paper champ like Rossel (and I like Rossel, actually; he's just very limited compared with a Narváez - and has never actually defeated a reigning world titlist in his life, or in fact won a world title bout that wasn't for an "interim" version...) shouldn't net you the same credit as positively destroying the divisional #1 like Inoue did. They just aren't comparable.

My original point, which you seemed to not get, WildStyle, never was to disparage the other two cards in Japan (which is the idea you latched onto and seem to have been railing against until blue in the face) but to elevate the December 30th one because it, rightfully, deserved more attention - before it happened and now, even after it proved to be a one-sided display of savagery. If you read the OP in the original thread in which you began this little crusade - http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=525703 - I'm clearly pumping up Narváez vs. Inoue and only made the offhand comparison to all the NYE fights to illustrate that even though it technically wasn't the last televised card of the year (or even the last to feature world titles on the line) it was the last of THAT order of magnitude. Which it was. And still is, in hindsight. Guevara upsetting Yaegashi (even though he was softened up by Chocolatito) and Jimenez and Taguchi making the most of their respective opportunities - that's all well and fine. None of that should be given as many plaudits as what Inoue did, because Narváez is head and shoulders above the opponents they all faced, and the manner of victory was infinitely more impressive.

 

Has anyone ever won a title in 2 weight classes within 8 fights before does anyone know? :think

 

Never been done.

There is a fairly short list of those who captured one in that short a time.

If anyone is being disrespectful, it would be someone equating Taguchi bumping off a weak titlist like Rossel to what Inoue did (which is almost unthinkable) on the mere basis of both having been world title bouts as though all of those are created equal. :deal

 

No, the previous record was Paul Weir (9 fights)

 

Naoya Inuoe has fight fans eyes on Japanese Boxing at the moment. What a boxer! Fast with explosive power.Although he can be touched because of his stand up style.He doesn't run like Floyd.We want to see Chocolatito and him next. The monster first real test and i believe the MONSTER has the goods to win.

 

atsch
Get a room you 2.

And don't invite me or i'll bring Kellie