Comments Thread For: WBA provides some clarity on Murodjon Akhmadalievs pursuit of Nayoa Inoue

[crimsonfalcon07]

Are you legit dumb or what.
When the fuçk did I say mj is the one to send inoue the offer.

Because MJ is the one who is supposed to send the offer .

Just wow. YDKS.

Everything you said was BS. And you are a legit dumbass.

Everything i said is completely factual. Which you'd already know if you weren't completely fake. SMH. I'm done here. I'm starting to feel bad for you. Hope you learn something someday.

[JOITATS]

Why in the world does Inoue have to fight the guy who lost to Tapales?

Who's on the A-side? LOL


So Inoue brutally KOs Tapales. And logically Tapales is above MJ in every ranking.

In the meanwhile MJ hasn't fought anyone decent since his loss. But for a year, he continues to whine like a little B.

MJ wants a big payday. We get it. So does everyone else, so get in line.



Inoue is right ----- MJ needs to shut up, and prove that he's worthy of a fight.

[JOITATS]

Anyways, Inoue posted a comment a little while back saying that if MJ keeps fighting and winning, he's next.
But for now he's focused on Goodman.


There's nothing more to read beyond that.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Anyways, Inoue posted a comment a little while back saying that if MJ keeps fighting and winning, he's next.
But for now he's focused on Goodman.


There's nothing more to read beyond that.

Curious if you actually watched the MJ v Tapales fight. That could easily have been a draw, and I said at the time that MJ looked like he was sick. I really don't think Tapales could beat him again. He had a performance of a lifetime and BARELY got the decision. I thought it was 115-113 Tapales or a draw, but MJ was flat as heck that fight. He's not the type to make excuses though. Got run over by a car and had both legs broken as a child before he started boxing and still showed up to work. Has fought through broken fists, ribs, nose. Didn't even mention them at post fight press conferences. Not sure why people are so down on him.

[Elheath]

I hear you. I didn't like how MJ tried to jump in front of Goodman, but honestly, Goodman has a lot to do with that, with his as1nine extra fight that he got injured in, which put the Doheny fight in play and screwed the timeline. Now he's hurt himself again. I'm really disgusted with him.

That being said, the notion that MJ doesn't have any fans, and Picasso does is just ridiculous. MJ is a former unified champion at the weight class, while Picasso is a nobody, with zero good wins period. He didn't even fight a guy with a winning record until his 11th fight, has fought nobody of note since, and his best win is Azat Hovhannisyan, whose best claim to fame is losing every time he so much as looked at the title picture. And that was his ONLY 12 rounder ever.

IMO, it's the Top Rank brass being scared of an upset and wanting a softer touch for what is, wrongly, being viewed as Inoue's debut outside of Japan. And that entire fake narrative drives me nuts. MJ is the most credible opponent left in the division, as a former unified champion with only a split decision loss as a blemish, unless you value Casimero, which I don't (and talk about someone who isn't doing anything to get back into the title picture...)

If anything, MJ seems to have plenty of haters for some reason, which ought to sell tickets.

Oh trust me Goodman is really irritating me as well for sure, but that being said though it doesn't change the fact that given the timeline MJ didn't have ANY legit reasoning of why he should be b!tching about being skipped over for September or December/January. This dang Picasso rumor for April really is the first time he has a somewhat valid arguement about being passed over (and thus I don't mind administrative shenanigans to move around the belt temporarily). I also think the choice of Picasso doesn't have anything to do with soft or hard touch but more about pulling in the "Mexican fanbase" near Vegas that MJ has zero pull for, which without belts on him, he doesn't, and it is true.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Oh trust me Goodman is really irritating me as well for sure, but that being said though it doesn't change the fact that given the timeline MJ didn't have ANY legit reasoning of why he should be b!tching about being skipped over for September or December/January. This dang Picasso rumor for April really is the first time he has a somewhat valid arguement about being passed over (and thus I don't mind administrative shenanigans to move around the belt temporarily). I also think the choice of Picasso doesn't have anything to do with soft or hard touch but more about pulling in the "Mexican fanbase" near Vegas that MJ has zero pull for, which without belts on him, he doesn't, and it is true.

Fair take. I was completely on board as well telling MJ to wait in line for Goodman, even though Goodman needed a good swat upside the head for his antics, which, hopefully, Inoue will deliver in January. If Goodman can make it to the ring then. But fair is fair, and IF Inoue fights Picasso first, that's a duck in my book, for exactly the same reasons I criticized MJ when he was trying to cut in line. And I don't really want Inoue to have a blemish on his record with him vacating a belt to hand it over to MJ, and then move up. I've actually thought MJ is a clean enough boxer with real power in the division that, if anyone were to have a chance, it would be him. So I'd like to see if he can give Inoue a good fight or not.

Thing is, neither Picasso nor MJ is a draw. So I don't buy that MJ without belts is a worse draw. I would be surprised if the majority of fans of any kind around Vegas had any knowledge of Picasso before this fight was suggested. Also, what if MJ were fighting Picasso? Do you honestly think Picasso would be the favorite to win? What does that suggest about the respective odds vs Inoue? You think the Mexican fans want to show up to watch one of their guys get flattened? Inoue already gets flak for not fighting in the US, and then when you point out that he did, they claim he fought nobodies with terrible resumes, not people who have experience at the title level. Picasso is just more of the same. He adds nothing to Inoue's resume. I'm not convinced he EVER touches a title. So why mess up the mandatory rotation and risk Inoue getting stripped?

[sportchi]

Ducking the guy who lost to Tapales?

Inoya must fight the main contender. The contender waited 1 year, will he wait another two years?

[sportchi]

Inoue deliberately chooses weaker opponents. It is worth noting that Akhmadaliyev ranks second in The Ring ranking, Goodman is third, and Picasso is fifth. Akhmadaliyev, it seems, has been officially the first contender for the fight for more than a year. What rule is written that the applicant must wait two or three years? It doesn't matter if Inoya is afraid of herself or the leadership of her team, they keep running away.

[Elheath]

Fair take. I was completely on board as well telling MJ to wait in line for Goodman, even though Goodman needed a good swat upside the head for his antics, which, hopefully, Inoue will deliver in January. If Goodman can make it to the ring then. But fair is fair, and IF Inoue fights Picasso first, that's a duck in my book, for exactly the same reasons I criticized MJ when he was trying to cut in line. And I don't really want Inoue to have a blemish on his record with him vacating a belt to hand it over to MJ, and then move up. I've actually thought MJ is a clean enough boxer with real power in the division that, if anyone were to have a chance, it would be him. So I'd like to see if he can give Inoue a good fight or not.

Thing is, neither Picasso nor MJ is a draw. So I don't buy that MJ without belts is a worse draw. I would be surprised if the majority of fans of any kind around Vegas had any knowledge of Picasso before this fight was suggested. Also, what if MJ were fighting Picasso? Do you honestly think Picasso would be the favorite to win? What does that suggest about the respective odds vs Inoue? You think the Mexican fans want to show up to watch one of their guys get flattened? Inoue already gets flak for not fighting in the US, and then when you point out that he did, they claim he fought nobodies with terrible resumes, not people who have experience at the title level. Picasso is just more of the same. He adds nothing to Inoue's resume. I'm not convinced he EVER touches a title. So why mess up the mandatory rotation and risk Inoue getting stripped?

I never believed or said Picasso is better than MJ as a boxer, and will be defeated by MJ if they fight eachother. However both of them are gonna be underdogs against Inoue anyway, and as much as I don't understand why but bottomline is that it seems like Picasso has more (Mexican) fans living in the vicinity of Vegas than MJ has fans of any nationality living in the vicinity of Vegas. Neither may be a huge draw in a vacuum, but Picasso probably does have more draw power by ***comparison***, keyword, in Vegas than MJ especially given the amount of (lack of) frequent exposure he is willing to give himself. For whatever reason, he seems to be relatively popular in Mexico which happens to be much closer to Vegas as a location.

And to repeat so it doesn't get misinterpreted, if I personally had the final choice regardless of money then I'd say forget Picasso and draw power and I'd take MJ every day and twice on Sunday. I won't care about the crowd of Vegas being uncaring because by having a card and showing they won't even show up for Inoue at least they can kill the false idea that "bu-bu-but Amuuurika is home of boxing every boxer must fight here to be real boxers!" excuse and let Japan continue to rule the lighter weights (by the way they are having the jr flyweight title fight by two Mexican boxers held in Japan this month which says a lot about where the lightest weights all want to fight at now) when the best selling boxer in North America is Mexican and the strongest boxer is European.