The WBO World Championship Committee has announced that undisputed bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue has been designated as WBO “Super Champion” with the rights and privileges afforded by such designation. The privileges include an extension of mandatory title defenses to take big fights, eligibility to be considered for designation as the mandatory challenger in higher or lower divisions, more favorable purse bid splits and other benefits.
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Sure, makes sense.
You go and look at the Ring ratings for bantamweight and the top three contenders are Rodriguez, Jason Moloney and Donaire (and Boxrec and TNB have the same three guys just in different order); and Inoue has stopped all three of them and he just stopped Paul Butler who’s at #6. When he leaves the division, I think there will be some very fun fights at bantam for a year or two, especially if the jr’s start to come up, but at the moment, I don’t really see who he fights if he stays there.
Don’t tell me that by elevating Inoue to Superchampion status will be a nice excuse to create a regular champion, would be ridiculous.
You know that will happen–the article pretty much sums up the problems of boxing today.
Fortunately Burucho, the WBO doesn’t do that. They’ll do interim champions, but not “regular”… THANKFULLY.
And the difference is…
He will likely fight for a vacant belt since Fulton will move up in order to duck him.
These elevations and nonessential titles are pure nonsense and have zero place in the sport. Inoue, anyone who actually follows the sport knows that he is the man the true lineal champion. The over sensationalist exaggeration add nothing to that fact. Actually sounds a bit silly.
Just another excuse not to fight Casimero! Keep ducking him.
Ok mate.
Casimero will be just another victim!
Casimero has 4 losses with one of them being inside the distance. Inoue will destroy him. I don’t think he’s ducking him mate.
Sure, he is a super champ, but what the hell does that mean in a sport where there is more than one champion holding the same belt at the same time and an alphabet soup of belts with other peoples names on them? All these belts and belt levels makes the whole idea of a “champion” rather ridiculous.
The Monstah….. who will step up and face. The Monstah.
He deserves all of that..
Casismero!!!!!!! Mustah-mo inoue destroys him easily in 3 rounds as the most and, that is being generous!
THE MAN!!! I have him as #1 in the P4P ratings!!!! He is by far the most dominating champ today! Imagine, just Imagine if he was a full fledged Welterweight?! Would probably favor him versus both Crawford and Spence?? Just my opinion! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOLKS! Totally value everyone’s opinion on this site with the exception of folks making things personal!!
This designation points him at the super bantamweight division. There’s nothing left to accomplish at bantamweight despite all the comments about Casimero. A fight against Fulton will be great, but a fight against any of the top fighters would also be interesting.
There will be challenges at 122 lbs as Inoue will be fighting bigger, stronger men. Brandon Figueroa is at that weight, however he throws such wide punches that I see Inoue beating him to the punch all day. It would be an intriguing fight though since Fulton would probably move up to featherweight before Inoue can get to him.
There will be exciting fights for Inoue in 2023 and 2024 at the higher weight classes. Who knows? Featherweight may not be beyond his reach.