ESPN has announced that the highly anticipated May 7 clash between Naoya Inoue and Stephen Fulton for the unified WBC/WBO super bantamweight title has been postponed after Inoue suffered an undisclosed injury in training. ESPN, which planned to stream the bout on ESPN+ in the early morning hours, said the bout will be rescheduled for later this summer.
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That’s too bad, but as long as THIS is the fight that they’re going to make, then it’s okay. Definitely want them both to be 100% or as close to it as possible – so a couple of months, or whatever it turns out to be, is just fine.
Bummer
It was too good to be true
Not good….
it is money…one wants more
Look at the double standard in front of you. Now you guys giving softer handling and understanding now that Inoue is in the same situation.
It’s boxing. It’s a contact sport and people get hurt doing it and training for it. I don’t even take it seriously when something happens and people start talking about someone being afraid of or ducking someone else. It’s just people trolling for attention imo.
We need an injury report, just like when one of the Charlos are injured.
The monster is just postponing the fight for a couple of months and didn’t say that his hand was broken. Charlo said he broke two bones in his hands while training, unlikely, pushing the fight way out. So there’s not really a double standard, it’s just a different occurrence of an injury. But I can see why people like you always make it about race. What else have you got? 🙂
Mall should be required to show proof. He had one solid championship level fight in 8 fights and faked an injury to hold his belt hostage longer without hedging to defend it. Mell on the other hand is fighting the best in his division and really has no need to fake it just like Inoue, who is moving up to dare to be great. It’s not like he’s being forced to do so.
your crazy
He got cold feet. Never fought anyone as skilled as Fulton.
Innoe is a bum dodging the fight he’s a has been and knows what he’s up against he on his bike and headn out of the stadium is this best Japan has from this has been ha ha ha fakn injury what a disgrace
and your clueless
Probably the worst comment I’ve read for a while. Undisputed Champion scared of feather fisted Fulton haha cool story bro.
Too small
Doesn’t undisclosed injury automatically mean the fighter is scared of the opponent. Seems to be the common trend in these chats for other injured fighters. Haha
inoue has a injury he has a canker sore on one of his toes
BUMMER! Maybe based on the attention this fight gets, Fulton takes a keep busy fight and gather more publicity, or does he wait it out?
Damn!
I’ll give Inoue the benefit of the doubt. If in 4 weeks we find he has scheduled a fight instead vs Akhmadaliev then I will dump on him