Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions

[Baofeng]

@Hirose UK. I agree on your argument that Inoue does not need this fight, however, I very much disagree that this fight will be worthless if this was negotiated by their teams, approved by the fighters and promoted by the promoters. This will be one of the biggest fights in boxing similar to Tank vs. King Ry. If they are not fighting for a championship, this fight will also be a legacy fight.

It will really cemented their legacy specially for the winner of this fight and I think it will be bigger than Tank vs King Ry specially if Inoue can continue to win and become a champion and dominated his opponent, similar to what Tank Davis might also do.

So it will be good though, no matter how you look at it and then we have the comparison again with Manny Pacquiao going up in weight limit and then punishing Miguel Cotto at his best weight class. So this is very much possible to happen, hopefully both can sit down and talk if the opportunity presents itself.

I very much agree, especially if the Japanese fans want to compare him to Pacman. Inoue should accept great challenged vs. great boxers who might be bigger than him. However, if he is happy to be less than Pacman and all of the great boxers then this is also okay. But the Japanese fans should never say that Inoue is on a similar level as Pacman. Also, I am aware that this is arguable, but I reckon Mayweather is lesser than Pacman in boxing greatness.

To be fair, I don't see Inoue backing down from any challenges, he has tasted the canvass already and so it might make him hungry and motivated the next time and doesn't want that to happen to him. But we really don't know though on the side of Tank Davis. He has publicity said that he will not fight Inoue because Inoue is too small for him. Although he said that will be a fun fight.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lCYj39ZAi9E

Also, another comparison is Pacman vs. Antonio Margarito who is very much bigger than Pacman. After he won the championship against him, Pacman said he can keep the championship because he will not fight in the heavier middleweight division again hehehehe.

Pacquiao was really hurt in that fight. He admitted that he took him weeks to recover specially the body blows that he took and there are rounds that he almost knock down from a huge body shot from Margarito.

I would only begin to consider the greatness of Naoya Inoue if he will fight 2 more big names after Stephen Fulton. I reckon these big names would be Brandon Figueroa and the other name is we have mentioned already, Tank Davis.

Also on these big names, 1 of them should be a fight that would give Inoue much difficulty and this would force a rematch very much similar to his fight against Nonito Donaire.

There's plenty of time for Inoue to become great, first he really had to go out of Japan and fight other champions. Need to clean up the 122 lbs and then move up to 126 lbs and then beat the likes of Figueroa or Vargas or any other champion Featherweight.

I want him to fight Rey Vargas, it might be the first time that we will see him fighting a taller guy and we gonna look at how he will adjust with that kind of disadvantage. That's a good measurement for him in my opinion and probably it will bring the greatness in him if he is put on this kind of uncomfortable situation.

[jakelyson]

To be honest, he hasn't done anything yet in the 135 lbs division and what others have said, he is a paper champ here. He didn't face Haney at this division, and then we have Shakur and Loma still lurking. Loma is a regular champion now and so there is a chance that Davis could step up and fight Loma or even Shakur. And in this fight, he weigh in at a slim and trim 133 lbs, so meaning he can still make weight here and probably have time to make it in the next coming years. And I don't think that money will be a problem as for sure there will be a lot of promotions or even the Saudi to cover for this big fight if Davis wants it.

After that fight with Frank Martin maybe a fight that is not a cherry-pick but Gervonta Davis's fight will need to wait I want to see Devin Haney, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, or even Denys Berinchyk for the WBO belt so he can be an undisputed champion just like Naoya Inoue and unified the belt in the lightweight division but another defense fight and I think he can have a shot into getting those belts.

I would only begin to consider the greatness of Naoya Inoue if he will fight 2 more big names after Stephen Fulton. I reckon these big names would be Brandon Figueroa and the other name is we have mentioned already, Tank Davis.

Also on these big names, 1 of them should be a fight that would give Inoue much difficulty and this would force a rematch very much similar to his fight against Nonito Donaire.

Yup! he was really amazing in unifying the belts in the Bantamweight and the Super Bantamweight and right now Stephen Fulton has shifted into the Featherweight Division I really think Naoya Inoue can also dominate the Featherweight Division now that Stephen Fulton is in that Division and he is now dominating the Super Bantamweight I really think he is already ready to give it a try in the featherweight Division in my honest opinion but it is taking it slowly and surely.

[inthelongrun]

To be honest, he hasn't done anything yet in the 135 lbs division and what others have said, he is a paper champ here. He didn't face Haney at this division, and then we have Shakur and Loma still lurking. Loma is a regular champion now and so there is a chance that Davis could step up and fight Loma or even Shakur. And in this fight, he weigh in at a slim and trim 133 lbs, so meaning he can still make weight here and probably have time to make it in the next coming years. And I don't think that money will be a problem as for sure there will be a lot of promotions or even the Saudi to cover for this big fight if Davis wants it.

After that fight with Frank Martin maybe a fight that is not a cherry-pick but Gervonta Davis's fight will need to wait I want to see Devin Haney, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, or even Denys Berinchyk for the WBO belt so he can be an undisputed champion just like Naoya Inoue and unified the belt in the lightweight division but another defense fight and I think he can have a shot into getting those belts.

Indeed. Tank is only popular just like Jake Paul and Ryan Garcia but never really great. But he has the potential to be great although he seems to be running out of time at 29 years old. So far Tank became a 2 division world champion. But he never tried unifying his belt against the other champions. Tank's current WBA belt was only emailed to him because he was the regular champ before Haney vacated all the belts.

I was also surprised Tank came in at 133 lbs which means he'll be staying in this weight for long. Hopefully after this win over Martin, he unifies the belt. WBO champion Denys Berinchyk is the least popular among champions so he should be easy to negotiate with. I will also give Tank credit if he moves up at 140 and rematch WBA champion, Pitbull Cruz for a chance to become a 3 division champion although I heard he rejected interest of a rematch.