There are few folks alive right now who’ve been nearer to boxing for longer than Bob Arum and now the promotional legend has named who he says is the very best boxer he has ever seen.
Arum heads up the Prime Rank secure and has executed so for many years. He has promoted a number of the greatest and finest fights and fighters of the final 50 years and stays concerned on the very prime degree even this weekend because the co-promoter of Tyson Fury, who takes on Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight crown in Saudi Arabia.
In his lengthy and storied profession, Arum has additionally labored with Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Vasiliy Lomachenko, who turned a world champion once more this final weekend when he stopped Aussie George Kambossos Jr for the IBF title.
Chatting with Jai McAllister, he was requested about what he fabricated from Naoya Inoue’s most up-to-date win in opposition to Luis Nery final week.
“He’s not solely pound-for-pound the very best on the earth, Inoue is the very best fighter I’ve ever seen, regardless of the what weight class. In over 60 years in boxing, I’ve by no means seen something like Inoue.”
He additionally spoke to Boxing Scene with much more embellished reward.
“He’s a terrific younger man. It’s scary with what I’m seeing. He overwhelms actually good opponents. I’ve by no means seen a fighter of that measurement carry out the way in which he has. Possibly Salvador Sanchez had that means. Even then, Sanchez didn’t win almost all his fights by knockout.
“Inoue goes in, packing containers, and knocks these guys out. What we’re seeing in Inoue is one thing that’s actually particular. There aren’t any ifs, ands, or buts about it. He’s as particular to boxing to what [Japanese star] Shohei Ohtani is to baseball. We’re honoured to be enjoying a component in his profession.”
The Japanese begin got here by an early scare in his final struggle on the Tokyo Dome – which was the primary time boxing had returned to that space since 1990 when Mike Tyson was upset by Buster Douglas. Inoue was put down in spherical one however rallied and knocked down Nery a number of instances on the way in which to his newest lockout victory.
That maintained the four-division champion’s unbeaten report and is one other good win for the 31-year-old who was the undisputed champion at 118 kilos, then transfer as much as 122 kilos in 2023 and in simply two fights cleared to the division by stopping Stephen Fulton and Marlon Tapales.
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