By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda
WBC, WBO 122-pound champion Stephen Fulton stunned the Japanese press people with his brief workout on Friday in Yokohama, Japan. It lasted only 2 minutes 45 seconds, and he left Ohashi Gym, saying, “I don’t like to show my training.” A public workout is a customary event to cooperate with the publicity of a boxing event, but he didn’t actually show anything to the press at all. He just did shadow boxing for a minute, hit punching ball for thirty seconds and landed only three to the punching bag. Fulton said, “Naoya Inoue’s best asset is his excellent timing in punching rather than his power punching. But I’ll be able to outbox him by fighting intelligently.”
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He’s not gonna be able to hide any of that training in the ring, and it’s not just Inoue’s timing that makes him a hard hitter, IT IS his natural punching power too. Silly for him to try and deny any of that, besides I don’t see how he fights smarter than Donaire did. Hope Fulton practiced falling over.
He didn’t deny his power, he said his timing is his greatest asset rather his power. He’s not excluding it, he’s saying if Inoue can’t deliver the power with effective timing then the natural power doesn’t matter. He can’t make him punch less powerfully but he is hoping movement and disrupting his timing will neutralize the power and help him win. He can’t win a slugfest obviously. Plenty of guys with a lot of power don’t succeed because they lack the ability to land punches, so he’s not really wrong in his assessment.
Well said, point taken. Agreed.
Donaire and Fulton are completely different fighters. You a bandwagon rider. Stfu
You clearly don’t know boxing.
Most People Don’t Know Shit About Boxing!
Oh and you know everything about boxing I suppose?…..lol
God Bless Roger
Let’s see if that punching power translate at this higher weight class. Naoya might get exposed and outclassed
You got that right, he’s in with a guy who’s got lots of tricks and ring savy too.
Punk move. Fulton should be fined for pulling that crap.
I mean. How classy is that. Go Scooter!
CoolBoy bout to smoke Inoue. Hey ain’t fight Noone with this skill set. Watch the hand speed and faints and movement along with the coolboy jab. To much for Inoue
I’m just curious to see if The Monsters power carries to 122 lbs ,and if he destroys Fulton,he’s the best on the planet Pound for pound
Over Spence or Crawford? Hilarious..
Inoue by late TKO..
Cool Boy is a talented kid with his head screwed on correctly except for when he accepted the fight with Inoue. It’s going to be a hell of a beatdown, hope he can come back.
Inoue is going to stun him with a brutal KO! The #1 stunna