Stevenson on Inoue’s P4P rank: Too much “No-Name”

Shakur Stevenson says he doesn’t have Naoya Inoue in his top 3-pound-for-pound list because he has been fighting a names since his one good win against Stephen ‘Cool Boy Steph’ Fulton in 2023.

Stevenson makes an excellent point. Inoue (30-0, 27 COs) should be nowhere near the Top 3, based on the poor opposition to which he plunged his record. Even putting Naoya on the list will go overboard. The top -10 should be for fighters who take risks with their careers.

P4P: Inoue’s “No -Name” fighting

– Ramon Cardenas
– Ye Joon who
– TJ Doheny
– Luis Nery
– Marlon Tapales

Inoue was slow in the fight against Murodjon Akhmadaliev and Junto Nakatano. Both are in and around his weight class, but he was not chosen to fight against them. What does this tell you? Naoya should have fought against the guys some time ago instead of the opposition of the middle road he settled on.

Stevenson excludes inoue Top 3

“I would go with Bud Crawford. I like Biblical. I don’t think people give him credit. He two of the biggest names in box. He dominated both of the Artur Bererbiev) for me, ‘Shakur Stevenson told Ariel Helwani channel. “#3, I’m going to go with usyk, and I know he can’t really be a pound-by-pound.”

I should not agree with Shakur to place Terence Crawford on #1 pound-for-pound. He didn’t hit anyone well enough to be even on the top -15 list. He probably lost his last fight against Israel Madrimov.

“With Inoue, he had that one fight with” Cool Boy Steph “(Stephen Fulton), and he did well in battle. He looked good. They crucified me because he doesn’t know fighters and fighters who don’t fight. I felt he was doing the same thing, ‘Shakur says about Naoya Inoue.

Fulton was too weak to do a lot in his battle with inoue. It was more than anything a mismatch. Inoue should have moved to 126 after that fight.

“It’s true,” Stevenson said when it was said that there are not so many fighters where inoue fights are good enough for him to get quality names on his resume. Junto Nakatani, this is the struggle to be waged. If he beats that man, I definitely put him on top.

“Give me 10, 9,” Stevenson says about where he would put himself on the pound-by-pound list.