[Boxing] Stephen Fulton vs. Naoya Inoue | WBC & WBO 122 lbs bout | July 25

[Baofeng]

Inoue is taking a risk, there is little doubt in my mind this is the case, and we have a very recent example with Canelo, Canelo has a huge punching power on his division, but as soon as he moved up and fought against Bivol his punching power became trivial and Bivol dominated him clearly, now I think of Inoue as a better fighter than Canelo so it is likely he can overcome this, so it is a risk to fight a champion right away but even then I still think he can win.

Inoue taking a risk? Fulton is even the underdog in this match. Inoue can surely handle Fulton. That Canelo's case is different from Inoue's today, Canelo is pushing for a big difference in the environment when he chooses to fight Dmitry Bivol. Just wait and see how Inoue will beat Fulton and unify all other belts at the Super Bantamweight division.

As we speaks, Inoue as a challenger is still the Favorite to win the match.

I believe Canelo was also the favorite when he fought Bivol, but it turns out he was well dominated by the speed and size of a champion. Maybe this fight is quite different as Inoue is the heavy favorite, and I think Inoue is very much comfortable with the new weight class.

Yes, he was. However, Inoue and Canelo are completely a different fighter. So, different fighter, different weight class, and definitely will have different outcome.
In this match, Inoue will surely going to be heavily favoured than Canelo had when he fought Bivol.
I am one of those who admire Inoue, as he is a complete fighter. Not underestimating his opponent, but more of believing what Inoue is capable of.

I think it depends on their opponents, in the Bivol fight, I would say that Bivol is great but for sure he is not yet exposed to casual boxing fans as it is the 147 lbs who is the biggest draw followed by Heavyweight division.

So yeah it's completely different division and there's not need to compare in my opinion. But we all know that Canelo get REKT by Bivol, hehehe.

Now's is the question whether Fulton has that ability to believed in himself to beat the Monster in his hometown.

[Botnake]

I think it depends on their opponents, in the Bivol fight, I would say that Bivol is great but for sure he is not yet exposed to casual boxing fans as it is the 147 lbs who is the biggest draw followed by Heavyweight division.

So yeah it's completely different division and there's not need to compare in my opinion. But we all know that Canelo get REKT by Bivol, hehehe.

That was a bad defeat by Canelo, because after he won the undisputed fight, he tried to climb but lose via unanimous decision.
He wants a rematch right away, but good thing it didn't happen because I'm afraid he will experience another lose.
More time to study Bivol is better, I'm sure he'll find a way to even their rivalry, if we called it that way.

Now's is the question whether Fulton has that ability to believed in himself to beat the Monster in his hometown.

We will know that once he is already in the ring because that's the only time he will feel how strong the punches of Inoue are.

[Vaculin]

Inoue is taking a risk, there is little doubt in my mind this is the case, and we have a very recent example with Canelo, Canelo has a huge punching power on his division, but as soon as he moved up and fought against Bivol his punching power became trivial and Bivol dominated him clearly, now I think of Inoue as a better fighter than Canelo so it is likely he can overcome this, so it is a risk to fight a champion right away but even then I still think he can win.

Inoue taking a risk? Fulton is even the underdog in this match. Inoue can surely handle Fulton. That Canelo's case is different from Inoue's today, Canelo is pushing for a big difference in the environment when he chooses to fight Dmitry Bivol. Just wait and see how Inoue will beat Fulton and unify all other belts at the Super Bantamweight division.

As we speaks, Inoue as a challenger is still the Favorite to win the match.

I believe Canelo was also the favorite when he fought Bivol, but it turns out he was well dominated by the speed and size of a champion. Maybe this fight is quite different as Inoue is the heavy favorite, and I think Inoue is very much comfortable with the new weight class.

Yes, you're right about that. Canelo Alvarez was indeed the heavy favorite at that time when he fought for Bivol's LHW WBA belt, if I'm not mistaken, it was a 3:1 odds in favor of Canelo to win and I won't deny that even me at that time underestimated Bivol especially about the fact that he might be pressured and can't think clearly because of the on-going war on his country against Ukraine and besides, who could possibly side against Canelo, right? But Bivol proved a lot of us here wrong because he clearly dominated Canelo in almost every round and leave Canelo upset especially in the late rounds where the challenger did not expect that Bivol will embarrass him.

[danherbias07]

Inoue is taking a risk, there is little doubt in my mind this is the case, and we have a very recent example with Canelo, Canelo has a huge punching power on his division, but as soon as he moved up and fought against Bivol his punching power became trivial and Bivol dominated him clearly, now I think of Inoue as a better fighter than Canelo so it is likely he can overcome this, so it is a risk to fight a champion right away but even then I still think he can win.

Inoue taking a risk? Fulton is even the underdog in this match. Inoue can surely handle Fulton. That Canelo's case is different from Inoue's today, Canelo is pushing for a big difference in the environment when he chooses to fight Dmitry Bivol. Just wait and see how Inoue will beat Fulton and unify all other belts at the Super Bantamweight division.

As we speaks, Inoue as a challenger is still the Favorite to win the match.

I think what he means is the failures of those who are going in the higher-weight class. Just like recently, Rey Vargas was defeated and he also went higher trying to get another title from an upper-weight class against O'Shaquie Foster. Vargas was defeated even though he has a clean record of being undefeated.
Hector Luis Garcia was also defeated by Tank Davis.

But I would like to see how Inoue will change that point of view too. There's no competition left in his former weight class and this is the obvious reason why he climbed the ladder. Maximize that young career of him and gain more fame by dominating another weight.
My prediction is, he will just be a bit surprised in the first round or maybe until the second round but he will definitely show us a good fight when he finds his rhythm.

[Hypnosis00]

But I would like to see how Inoue will change that point of view too. There's no competition left in his former weight class and this is the obvious reason why he climbed the ladder. Maximize that young career of him and gain more fame by dominating another weight.
My prediction is, he will just be a bit surprised in the first round or maybe until the second round but he will definitely show us a good fight when he finds his rhythm.

Inoue is an extraordinary boxer, he dominate the division before he move up, and since he still believe he can achieve more, that's the reason why he moved up and challenge the champion. The most interesting part here is never a chance that people think Inoue would lose, I mean, you can see on the betting odds, Inoue is the heavy favorite, so that represents how majority think on his chances to win this fight.

[carlisle1]

But I would like to see how Inoue will change that point of view too. There's no competition left in his former weight class and this is the obvious reason why he climbed the ladder. Maximize that young career of him and gain more fame by dominating another weight.
My prediction is, he will just be a bit surprised in the first round or maybe until the second round but he will definitely show us a good fight when he finds his rhythm.

Inoue is an extraordinary boxer, he dominate the division before he move up, and since he still believe he can achieve more, that's the reason why he moved up and challenge the champion. The most interesting part here is never a chance that people think Inoue would lose, I mean, you can see on the betting odds, Inoue is the heavy favorite, so that represents how majority think on his chances to win this fight.

He is still hot after completing that unifying all the belts from his previous division, just like how you analyze it,
bookies give him the favor in terms of betting odd.

We will know if he can still dominate when he's facing a much bigger fighter. It will be a good test with his solid
punches if that's also effective with bigger opponent.

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

[Jawhead999]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

[Baofeng]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

[Natalim]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

I don't mind if this fight ends quickly or goes the distance, as long as it's entertaining. In Inoue's last fight, which was the undisputed fight with Butler, it went the distance, but we didn't enjoy it because it was a boring fight until Inoue caught Butler and knocked him out

[Shamm]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

I don't mind if this fight ends quickly or goes the distance, as long as it's entertaining. In Inoue's last fight, which was the undisputed fight with Butler, it went the distance, but we didn't enjoy it because it was a boring fight until Inoue caught Butler and knocked him out

For me I'll go for inoue not because he is undisputed but what I saw in his his previous fight and compared it in Fulton's fight and  in my own opinion that inoue will win and this. And this fight will long last until the end it because as we all know that how Fulton fight he is a good boxer and have a strong stamina to sustain all the punches by his opponent. So it's a good and closer fight for me.

[stadus]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

I don't mind if this fight ends quickly or goes the distance, as long as it's entertaining. In Inoue's last fight, which was the undisputed fight with Butler, it went the distance, but we didn't enjoy it because it was a boring fight until Inoue caught Butler and knocked him out

Mainly because we already expected the same outcome where Inoue will be unifying all the belts and become the undisputed champion in the bantamweight division, what we're trying to guess is if the fight will go to the distance or not, and whether Butler can weather all the rounds and come up to the judges. Although, we already know that it's quite impossible for Butler as he's just there to give his belt and try to survive.

This time, it's different because Fulton is not known to be an easy enemy and the fact that he holds this division and became a two-belt champion, that just means that he's not easy to defeat and that makes me wonder how this fight will end. Speaking of, I'm still in-favor of Naoya Inoue to win by a way of TKO/KO.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Yeah, he has proven that he can win outside of his native country Japan. But if this one is going to be held in Saitama again, Inoue will have so much confident because he wanted to please the crowd again, just like what he did against Donaire, devastating knockout win.

Perhaps we may want to re-phrase that, chances of Fulton are slim to stop the train hype of the Inoue. Naoya is on a destructive path that we don't know who is going to beat him in 122 lbs.

Fulton is really in a tough challenge here as Inoue will be the crowd favorite despite being the challenger. I can't imagine this fight will end in judges' scorecards as if we follow the trend, Inoue will easily win here via KO. As long as Fulton is willing to go toe to toe, it will not be a boring fight, and of course, he has to suffer a painful defeat as Inoue is such a heavy hitter.

Depends how tough Fulton's chin against Inoue's power. But we all know that there are no chin in the boxer that can't be broken. Sooner or later, they will have to face a boxer that punches hard and their chin are going to be soft.

Fulton might not go toe to toe because it will be dangerous for him and will try to avoid Inoue's power punch. Not saying it will be boring, but Fulton could not be willing to go fight in that strategy in the first half of the fight but then will adjust how the fight goes.

Cant really be still that too confident for Inoue to make some infight against Fulton.Not to reside with Fulton but we know that he wont really be that a belt holder for nothing.Its true that there's no such thing about
tough chin specially if it gets hit hard but we dont know on what extent it could hold into.For sure Fultons team is really that finding methods and ways on beating or trying to counter basing up on
how Inoue fights.Month of May is fast approaching and having 5 months of training is something that would be sufficient specially for Inoue on trying to go with heavier weight division? Lets see.

Well I like the idea as you see it, almost everyone is saying that Inoue can win easily, of course he is a boxer who has had a very good reputation in his previous category, but at the same time I like what he did by leaving his titles just for go to this new category, just for that gesture I respect him much more.

Now, the point of view you have is very valid because I also believe that a boxer can change everything from the perspective of his training. Of course, many things can happen in this fight, we don't know how Fulton will come, he must be preparing in a great way.

Liborio Solis asks Inoue to prepare for a war – World Boxing Association

At 41 years young, Venezuelan fighter Liborio Solis is preparing for another world title fight and he does it with the same commitment and optimism as always.

The Maracay-born fighter will be facing Japan’s Takuma Inoue, 14 years younger, on April 18, in a fight that will have the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight (118 lbs.) title at stake.

Inoue is the second challenger in that division and Solis is ranked third.

“It’s one more challenge in my life and we face it as it comes. We’re going all out,” Solis said while completing a training session at the Pedro ‘Rockero’ Alcazar gym in Curundu, Panama City.

“I have been patient waiting for a new title opportunity, I fought for it and now it has arrived”, added the former WBA super flyweight (115 lbs.) champion.

Source: https://www.saddoboxing.com/58616-liborio-solis-asks-inoue-to-prepare-for-a-war-world-boxing-association.html

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

I don't mind if this fight ends quickly or goes the distance, as long as it's entertaining. In Inoue's last fight, which was the undisputed fight with Butler, it went the distance, but we didn't enjoy it because it was a boring fight until Inoue caught Butler and knocked him out

If the other party doesn't want to dance with him, it will be a boring fighter, specially if he felt the power of Inoue early, Butler just chooses to run around the ring and avoid his power punches.

But it as not enough though, sooner or later he will be caught and so it was brutal to see Butler going down from body punches.

Hopefully as Fulton is supposedly the bigger and stronger guy and the natural boxer at 122 lbs, there will be no running around and fight toe to toe.

[Kemarit]

Waiting to see if Inoue will make an addition to his belt or if how Fulton will defend this division and add good hypes
to his name.

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Yes, we wish it will be as close as we wanted to see and Fulton going on a full distance against the Monster. But we have seen our the likes of Donaire and Butler fall from Inoue's power punches. He you could say that he dominated everyone in this division he beat the majority by KO/TKO, only Donaire last 12 rounds in the final of WBSS tournament, but we can see how tough Inoue is, still goes to win despite Nonito breaking his orbital bone. And once it healed they go on a rematch and we all know how that fight turns out.

I don't mind if this fight ends quickly or goes the distance, as long as it's entertaining. In Inoue's last fight, which was the undisputed fight with Butler, it went the distance, but we didn't enjoy it because it was a boring fight until Inoue caught Butler and knocked him out

Mainly because we already expected the same outcome where Inoue will be unifying all the belts and become the undisputed champion in the bantamweight division, what we're trying to guess is if the fight will go to the distance or not, and whether Butler can weather all the rounds and come up to the judges. Although, we already know that it's quite impossible for Butler as he's just there to give his belt and try to survive.

This time, it's different because Fulton is not known to be an easy enemy and the fact that he holds this division and became a two-belt champion, that just means that he's not easy to defeat and that makes me wonder how this fight will end. Speaking of, I'm still in-favor of Naoya Inoue to win by a way of TKO/KO.

Yes, we are in the majority in favor of Inoue winning by a way of TKO/KO in the late rounds, or if Stephen Fulton wants to engage, it might be an early night for him. Fulton is not an easy fight, but nevertheless, Inoue is known to also adjust in the fight so maybe it's going to be a feel out in the early rounds and when Inoue heats up, he might go on a offensive and show his talent again in front of his home crowd. So Fulton will need to be the slick American fighter here if he wants to beat Inoue. What I mean by being slick is play like Foster, when he beat a brawler like Vargas, go on that Philly shell and see if Inoue can crack that kind of defense known to be be pulled by Black American boxers like Floyd.

[Sanitough]

Yes, we are in the majority in favor of Inoue winning by a way of TKO/KO in the late rounds, or if Stephen Fulton wants to engage, it might be an early night for him.

The likelihood of Inoue knocking out Fulton in the early rounds of the fight is higher than in the later rounds. Inoue has won most of his fights that ended in a knockout in less than 6 rounds, so if Fulton can't withstand Inoue's power early on, he may not last. While Fulton is a champion, I have yet to see a fighter who has made Inoue struggle in a fight, and I hope Fulton can provide a challenge in this one.

[inthelongrun]

Now's is the question whether Fulton has that ability to believed in himself to beat the Monster in his hometown.

We will know that once he is already in the ring because that's the only time he will feel how strong the punches of Inoue are.

I found a video saying Fulton is not willing to travel to Japan. I haven't watched it though as it might be a clicked-bait video. Fulton's confidence is clearly because he was able to withstand the heavy-handed brawler Brandon Figueroa who is clearly heavier than Inoue during fight nights. I myself cannot believe Fulton was able to survive and then continued to box in the championship rounds. The fight was very close though and I had a draw but 2 of the official judges awarded it to Fulton making him the unified WBO and WBC champion.

Inoue started as champion at 108 lb and is now 4 divisions north. It will be interesting if he can still manage to hurt bigger guys and if his speed remains after being added another weight. Personally, I think Inoue's speed will make a difference in this fight. Figueroa might be heavy but he is not as fast as Inoue. There's probably a difference in the impact when you already know that a punch is coming to your face or your body compared to getting hit unexpectedly by Inoue's very fast and powerful punches.  

[yazher]

Just like how Bivol can pull an upset against Canelo, many people including me now respecting Bivol

But I think it's really different to compare Canelo and Inoue, when Canelo fight with GGG it's really close, while Inoue is really dominated against all champions. Despite Fulton not a popular boxer, but he have undefeated record and have fought many good boxers, so I just hope the fight would be interesting and the result would be different with majority of people predictions

Surprises often occur in a boxing fight but most of the time what's close to reality always occurs as we said, we are not closing any possibilities against Inoue in this fight because we know that it's his first time-fighting in this weight division, and sometimes boxers cannot be the same when they increase their weight. His opponent has never been losing before and he really needs to do the same training as his other past fight or he might consider making it more intense because if he slacks off a little bit, it will be his own big disadvantage once his opponent has training some skills to beat him.

[Silberman]

Inoue is taking a risk, there is little doubt in my mind this is the case, and we have a very recent example with Canelo, Canelo has a huge punching power on his division, but as soon as he moved up and fought against Bivol his punching power became trivial and Bivol dominated him clearly, now I think of Inoue as a better fighter than Canelo so it is likely he can overcome this, so it is a risk to fight a champion right away but even then I still think he can win.

Inoue taking a risk? Fulton is even the underdog in this match. Inoue can surely handle Fulton. That Canelo's case is different from Inoue's today, Canelo is pushing for a big difference in the environment when he chooses to fight Dmitry Bivol. Just wait and see how Inoue will beat Fulton and unify all other belts at the Super Bantamweight division.

As we speaks, Inoue as a challenger is still the Favorite to win the match.

I think what he means is the failures of those who are going in the higher-weight class. Just like recently, Rey Vargas was defeated and he also went higher trying to get another title from an upper-weight class against O'Shaquie Foster. Vargas was defeated even though he has a clean record of being undefeated.
Hector Luis Garcia was also defeated by Tank Davis.

But I would like to see how Inoue will change that point of view too. There's no competition left in his former weight class and this is the obvious reason why he climbed the ladder. Maximize that young career of him and gain more fame by dominating another weight.
My prediction is, he will just be a bit surprised in the first round or maybe until the second round but he will definitely show us a good fight when he finds his rhythm.

Exactly, we see the likes of Usyk moving up a division after getting the undisputed and beating Joshua twice and trying to unify all the titles on the heavyweight division and we think this is the standard, and even if Inoue is so good that he may actually try to unify the titles on a second division, and it should be clear this is his intention, moving up a division is never easy and if anything the stories of failure seem to be more common than the stories of success.

[Japinat]

Yes, we are in the majority in favor of Inoue winning by a way of TKO/KO in the late rounds, or if Stephen Fulton wants to engage, it might be an early night for him.

The likelihood of Inoue knocking out Fulton in the early rounds of the fight is higher than in the later rounds. Inoue has won most of his fights that ended in a knockout in less than 6 rounds, so if Fulton can't withstand Inoue's power early on, he may not last. While Fulton is a champion, I have yet to see a fighter who has made Inoue struggle in a fight, and I hope Fulton can provide a challenge in this one.

Yes, I too get that point because it is really a proven fact that Naoya Inoue made most of his KO/TKOs in not later than 6 rounds but this time it is on a different stage and heavier weight class, although, the weight difference is not that big but we should still give Inoue some room to adjust as this is debut in super-bantam yet he is already facing the champion, Steph Fulton.

[chaser15]

The likelihood of Inoue knocking out Fulton in the early rounds of the fight is higher than in the later rounds. Inoue has won most of his fights that ended in a knockout in less than 6 rounds, so if Fulton can't withstand Inoue's power early on, he may not last. While Fulton is a champion, I have yet to see a fighter who has made Inoue struggle in a fight, and I hope Fulton can provide a challenge in this one.

Not sure about that. Fulton is currently the most top-ranked boxer that Inoue will face at this point.

If we will refer to Inoue's last fight, against Paul Butler, the fight lasted 11 rounds. Butler is not even close to comparing to the level of Stephen Fulton therefore I'm seeing this fight will not lead to a KO win by Inoue in the early rounds.

About the last statement of yours, Nonito Donaire is the first boxer who gives a tough challenge to Inoue to win during their first match. That was even recognized by Inoue since it was the first time he received such heavy damage in his career. Unfortunately, we weren't able to witness who will win between prime Donaire and prime Inoue.