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

[Casdinyard]

^ That is a controversial statement by his coach, but it seems that Fulton is just shrugging his shoulder as if to tell this coach to shut up.

In any case, Fulton with or without that hand wraps, believes that he can and will beat Fulton as his own country in front of his crowd. So that is the mentality that Fulton has right now. No need from his coach to throw some rants on the media. Japanese is very respectful, but if you talk trash maybe we will see Inoue unleashes his full potential and power at super bantamweight as he might be agree with that statement.

I feel like it's just the coach doing something to either rouse the people's suspicion or have a say when his kid loses, cause now he can say that Fulton lost cause "inoue fought dirty and did something that is considered illegal" when he's probably just doing something that all boxers do anyway. Inoue is a capable fighter as many have said with or without help and to top it all off this is a home country fight, there's no way he's letting himself down in front of the people who trusts and believes in his ability.

But if it came to investigation I still think Inoue would prevail, and if it does come to that point with Inoue's innocence being proven, I say Fulton's coach must be sanctioned or something lol, You can't just do stuff like that.

[harizen]

Fulton's coach should just show that damn proof and evidence after making such a statement to make it more legit.

Kind of if a person wants an expose' then they should present some solid evidence and proof to back it up then they can consider pulling out with the fight. If it's just speculation, I don't know why the coach suddenly came out of nowhere with that kind of statement when the fight is just a few days left to commence.

Fulton is not the type of boxer who will pull out in a big fight, especially in a considered important fight currently in his career without a big reason. I'm also sure he's not afraid of everything especially against the Japanese monster as that will play a role in building his solid legacy if he won here. He did even not contest to fight at the Inoue's homeland.

Regarding Inoue, he worked so hard to where he is now. I doubt something dirty is cooking behind the stage where he's really involved just to have the advantage against the champion. For let's say, there's probably cheating, Inoue doesn't surely have any role or participation in making that happen for real.

Let's hope for a fair fight.

[carlfebz2]

^ That is a controversial statement by his coach, but it seems that Fulton is just shrugging his shoulder as if to tell this coach to shut up.

In any case, Fulton with or without that hand wraps, believes that he can and will beat Fulton as his own country in front of his crowd. So that is the mentality that Fulton has right now. No need from his coach to throw some rants on the media. Japanese is very respectful, but if you talk trash maybe we will see Inoue unleashes his full potential and power at super bantamweight as he might be agree with that statement.

I feel like it's just the coach doing something to either rouse the people's suspicion or have a say when his kid loses, cause now he can say that Fulton lost cause "inoue fought dirty and did something that is considered illegal" when he's probably just doing something that all boxers do anyway. Inoue is a capable fighter as many have said with or without help and to top it all off this is a home country fight, there's no way he's letting himself down in front of the people who trusts and believes in his ability.

But if it came to investigation I still think Inoue would prevail, and if it does come to that point with Inoue's innocence being proven, I say Fulton's coach must be sanctioned or something lol, You can't just do stuff like that.

Accusing on something which doesnt have a solid evidence then he should really be sanctioned or would really be needing to pay up a big fine if ever this is proven wrong or not really that right at all.For those Inoue

fans out there then there's no single moment that it would really be going into their minds about Inoue on being that cheating. We can even see for us non-fans that this guy has a power and speed.
Now that the fight is almost there, these kind of words had float out? Telling to myself what the f*ck they've been saying as of this moment.If they had chickened out
in the first place then they should have made this fight not to be molded or let it happen at all.It is really just that wasting anyones time and expectations for this fight to happen.
Is this fight would be pursued out still?

[bbc.reporter]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

[bisdak40]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

Ohh, this is not good but there might be some truth to this. I hope Fulton is aware of this tactics and be ready to whatever those Japs threw at them. Might be that "cake thing" was one of them.

Nevertheless, i will still follow my gut feeling that Inoue would win this by decision as the judges will favor the homeboy  , Fulton will not be knockout because he will be too cautious of Inoue's power so i'm pretty sure this would go the full distance.

[coin-investor]

The weigh-in just happened, we had a fight

Stephen Fulton 121.9 lbs
Naoya Inoue 121. 7 lbs

The face-off is so intense Fulton does not even blink in their face-off and Inoue is in his fighting form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er736hc7O7Y

I hope Fulton is different from all Inoue met in the ring, will he be the guy to stop Inoue's train, let's see tomorrow.

[Kemarit]

The weigh-in just happened, we had a fight

Stephen Fulton 121.9 lbs
Naoya Inoue 121. 7 lbs

The face-off is so intense Fulton does not even blink in their face-off and Inoue is in his fighting form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er736hc7O7Y

I hope Fulton is different from all Inoue met in the ring, will he be the guy to stop Inoue's train, let's see tomorrow.

Yeah, saw it too, both are serious specially Inoue, and it seems that it didn't have any effects on him weighing 122 lbs. But for Fulton, he might be weight drain but for sure after the weigh-in he can go back and rehydrate back to maybe 126 or higher.

Lots of fans are interested to see the fight, so regardless of time zone differences, for sure there will be some of us here who are going to get up early just to see this fight live.

Fulton though still a huge underdog.

[Botnake]

The weigh-in just happened, we had a fight

Stephen Fulton 121.9 lbs
Naoya Inoue 121. 7 lbs

The face-off is so intense Fulton does not even blink in their face-off and Inoue is in his fighting form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er736hc7O7Y

I hope Fulton is different from all Inoue met in the ring, will he be the guy to stop Inoue's train, let's see tomorrow.

Yeah, saw it too, both are serious specially Inoue, and it seems that it didn't have any effects on him weighing 122 lbs. But for Fulton, he might be weight drain but for sure after the weigh-in he can go back and rehydrate back to maybe 126 or higher.

Lots of fans are interested to see the fight, so regardless of time zone differences, for sure there will be some of us here who are going to get up early just to see this fight live.

Fulton though still a huge underdog.

Nothing should change, though, as Inoue is still very popular. If you bet on Fulton, you'll get x3.85 of your bet if you win, but if you have Inoue, it's only 1.25. However, there's even better odds for that, which is for Inoue to win by KO or TKO, currently at 1.93. So it's up to the bettors to decide whether they'll take risk a bit or just bet on the moneyline.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

The weigh-in just happened, we had a fight

Stephen Fulton 121.9 lbs
Naoya Inoue 121. 7 lbs

The face-off is so intense Fulton does not even blink in their face-off and Inoue is in his fighting form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er736hc7O7Y

I hope Fulton is different from all Inoue met in the ring, will he be the guy to stop Inoue's train, let's see tomorrow.

Yeah, saw it too, both are serious specially Inoue, and it seems that it didn't have any effects on him weighing 122 lbs. But for Fulton, he might be weight drain but for sure after the weigh-in he can go back and rehydrate back to maybe 126 or higher.

Lots of fans are interested to see the fight, so regardless of time zone differences, for sure there will be some of us here who are going to get up early just to see this fight live.

Fulton though still a huge underdog.

Nothing should change, though, as Inoue is still very popular. If you bet on Fulton, you'll get x3.85 of your bet if you win, but if you have Inoue, it's only 1.25. However, there's even better odds for that, which is for Inoue to win by KO or TKO, currently at 1.93. So it's up to the bettors to decide whether they'll take risk a bit or just bet on the moneyline.

Yes, for Inoue backers, ML is not that good or attractive, it's better to look for more betting options as it is already out, at least on my favorites casinos. For Fulton supporters, the odds are very juicy as he is the obvious underdog.

And as we can see in the weigh-in, maybe we can find some body languages that might lead us to bet on the underdog. So we will see, and it's good that we have been reminded as this is not a weekend fight. Usually this kind of magnitude, fights happen in Sunday US time. But since this is in Asia it is very different from our members who are in the US.

[Pamadar]

The weigh-in just happened, we had a fight

Stephen Fulton 121.9 lbs
Naoya Inoue 121. 7 lbs

The face-off is so intense Fulton does not even blink in their face-off and Inoue is in his fighting form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er736hc7O7Y

I hope Fulton is different from all Inoue met in the ring, will he be the guy to stop Inoue's train, let's see tomorrow.

Yeah, saw it too, both are serious specially Inoue, and it seems that it didn't have any effects on him weighing 122 lbs. But for Fulton, he might be weight drain but for sure after the weigh-in he can go back and rehydrate back to maybe 126 or higher.

Lots of fans are interested to see the fight, so regardless of time zone differences, for sure there will be some of us here who are going to get up early just to see this fight live.

Fulton though still a huge underdog.

Nothing should change, though, as Inoue is still very popular. If you bet on Fulton, you'll get x3.85 of your bet if you win, but if you have Inoue, it's only 1.25. However, there's even better odds for that, which is for Inoue to win by KO or TKO, currently at 1.93. So it's up to the bettors to decide whether they'll take risk a bit or just bet on the moneyline.

Yeah, if you are a fan of an underdog, that juicy odd for Fulton is waiving for you to take.

But if you are for Inoue' either to bet with KO or Decision might give you some adjustment to make some decent winnings,
though for sure Fulton will not give that easy fight, and some saying that he may upset the challenger here in front of
his home crowd, it's exciting to see if what fight plan he's going to execute.

[yazher]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

That was really a bad idea and when he will get beaten by Fulton tomorrow it would be a huge embarrassment to their people and it would also make other boxers not just accept some offers that will gonna need to fight in Japan. But if Inoue will win, that would clear the accusations and if he gonna be knockout this time and first time lose the fight, then he will hardly recover and might consider going back to his old weight category.

[PX-Z]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

Really? I just heard this kind of strategy or i say scheme. Haha.

Well, let's see tomorrow. If Fulton have the KO power he can win, even just in decision. But i still doubt that, Inoue still have his killer liver shot, that's why i bet Inoue for 1.95 Odds via KO. Let's see how it will go

[ultrloa]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

That was really a bad idea and when he will get beaten by Fulton tomorrow it would be a huge embarrassment to their people and it would also make other boxers not just accept some offers that will gonna need to fight in Japan. But if Inoue will win, that would clear the accusations and if he gonna be knockout this time and first time lose the fight, then he will hardly recover and might consider going back to his old weight category.

Don't know if the rumor is true but I don't think this is really the case since never heard it used by any japanese fighter or maybe missed this because I'm focusing on the bigger picture. But one thing is for sure there maybe they use this accusations just to hype their fight since they want many people to be curious about how true the rumors spread when the fight happen. All we can do at the moment is to speculate on who would win between those two great boxers.

[aioc]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

Really? I just heard this kind of strategy or i say scheme. Haha.

Me neither, I never read news where it was used to distract Donaire, Inoue, on that fight is just too good for Donaire and Donaire got careless besides Donaire did not complaint if there's a distraction like this, they should back it with facts, Fulton is accusing a lot he is the one making the distraction and not Inoue, Inoue we all know do not need to distract any of his opponents he is too strong and too good to those he had fought.

[Viscore]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

Really? I didn't know that Donaire experienced such problems on his way towards their second encounter, hopefully it wasn't Inoue or anybody in his camp who ordered that because it's so messed up if that was the case. What I mean that it was just the fans who made those foolish actions to the Filipino pride and Inoue didn't knew anything about it.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

Let's see if which one of them is more problematic on their fight night because I'm sure that one of them is affected by it. Remember that some random Japanese man offered Fulton a cake, nobody knows if the man was just idolizing Fulton or he got another motives and that is to destroy them mentally. This is gonna be fun!

[bittraffic]

Why would Naoya do that when their records show who can knock out a cow? 
Fulton only has 8 KOs out of 21 fights and 21 KOs out of 24 fights for Inoue. I can understand Fulton is afraid.

Inoue has all the power to KO Fulton, he doesn't need to send fans to disturb him all the time.  That rumor is funny LOL they can sure not allow visitors into their hotel room.  Japanese are the most respectful people in the world.

[mirakal]

If anyone of you was not aware, the Japanese are known in using psychological warfare before the fight to cause more anxiety to an opponent who is already suffering from anxiety because the fight. They used this against Nonito Donaire in his rematch vs. Inoue. It was rumored that random people would knock on Nonito's door every hour who are pretending to be fans to prevent him from sleeping. There were also other issues like not allowing Nonito's gloves to be used and other little problems like no chairs, no water available in his locker room.

Really? I didn't know that Donaire experienced such problems on his way towards their second encounter, hopefully it wasn't Inoue or anybody in his camp who ordered that because it's so messed up if that was the case. What I mean that it was just the fans who made those foolish actions to the Filipino pride and Inoue didn't knew anything about it.

However, it appears Fulton's team is very smart. They are using the Japanese tricks against Inoue's team so Fulton can rest and concentrate only on the fight hehehe.

Let's see if which one of them is more problematic on their fight night because I'm sure that one of them is affected by it. Remember that some random Japanese man offered Fulton a cake, nobody knows if the man was just idolizing Fulton or he got another motives and that is to destroy them mentally. This is gonna be fun!

I heard of that and you know it's unfortunate that Donaire had to go through all that troubles while he is approaching his revenge fight against Inoue, but none of those claims were proven by the way because there is no evidence presented in the first place. Besides, I don't think that it was on Inoue's orders because I believe he can win fights without scathing his name to this kind of propagandas.

[Oilacris]

Why would Naoya do that when their records show who can knock out a cow? 
Fulton only has 8 KOs out of 21 fights and 21 KOs out of 24 fights for Inoue. I can understand Fulton is afraid.

Inoue has all the power to KO Fulton, he doesn't need to send fans to disturb him all the time.  That rumor is funny LOL they can sure not allow visitors into their hotel room.  Japanese are the most respectful people in the world.

The other camp (Fultons) wont really be that so dumb on not to see those big numbers in terms of difference on KO percentage on which it is really that understandable on whatever their camp is doing

then its a clear sign that they are really that afraid.  It is really just that bullshit that they do make out some rumors and issues on the day few days before the fight would commence.
It do really sucks on why now they are throwing out those issues and not on the later date or when its still far away? This fight had much been awaiting by lots and now there's a chance
that it wont push through because of those bullshit accusations.

Japanese people are indeed the most honest and respectful people in the world and this is why i highly believe that they wont really be cheating up that way.
Why they cant just believe about having that kind of power punch of Inoue?

[coin-investor]

Japanese people are indeed the most honest and respectful people in the world and this is why i highly believe that they wont really be cheating up that way.
Why they cant just believe about having that kind of power punch of Inoue?

Inoue will be motivated to knock Fulton out to prove that he did not need to resort to cheating just to prove his power we can all see even as audiences how hard Inoue's punches are, it echoes, has a big snap, and is quick.

I have never seen Inoue motivated he can't get his eyes off Fulton on their face-off, Fulton is in deep trouble I'd like to see how he will manage the speed and the power of Inoue, I hope to see this live I hope someone can post the feed on my favorite sports page this is a must see fight of Inoue.

[AmoreJaz]

Japanese people are indeed the most honest and respectful people in the world and this is why i highly believe that they wont really be cheating up that way.
Why they cant just believe about having that kind of power punch of Inoue?

Inoue will be motivated to knock Fulton out to prove that he did not need to resort to cheating just to prove his power we can all see even as audiences how hard Inoue's punches are, it echoes, has a big snap, and is quick.

I have never seen Inoue motivated he can't get his eyes off Fulton on their face-off, Fulton is in deep trouble I'd like to see how he will manage the speed and the power of Inoue, I hope to see this live I hope someone can post the feed on my favorite sports page this is a must see fight of Inoue.

i won't question the honestly of Japanese people as well. also, the judges themselves are not Japanese,  so there's no worry about that. and besides, i don't think Inoue would want to win because of unfair judgment. this boxer has something to offer to boxing fans and so the reason why he is in this stage of popularity already.