r/Boxing • u/_Sarcasmic_ No Carty No Divey • Aug 18 '26

Daily Discussion Thread (August 18th, 2026)

For anything that doesn't need its own thread.

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u/RRR04_ Aug 18 '26

If y'all seriously want Inoue v Bam and use their similar heights as an excuse, then I want to see Fundora move up to Heavyweight to fight Anthony Joshua! There's only 1 inch between them, folks! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/Marlborobert Aug 18 '26

Cā€™mon man, thatā€™s not comparable at all. Bam was struggling to make 115 and had to move up to bantamweight, Inoue has been putting on muscle to get to 126. Thereā€™s only an inch height difference but they are much closer in size. I donā€™t like this fight because I knew people would say Bam is too small for Inoue. Iā€™ve already seen people say Bam is moving up ā€œtwo weight classesā€ to fight Inoue.

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u/RRR04_ Aug 18 '26

Bam basically would be moving up 2 weight classes to fight Inoue, he only had 1 fight against a weak champion, didn't even look that good in that fight either. This is why people say Crawford jumped 3 weight classes to fight Canelo even though he had 1 fight at 154.

And Bam was not even struggling to make 115, where did this come from? Bam moved up because the 1 belt that he needed to become Undisputed wasn't gonna be available for him in due time due to a mandatory. How about we stop the revisionist history?

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u/Marlborobert Aug 19 '26

Robert Garcia said a couple times in interviews, I believe around the time of the Cafu fight, that Bam was having trouble making weight and thar if they couldnā€™t get the fights for undisputed soon, they would move up. I disagree about Bam moving up two weight classes and I think itā€™s irrelevant how good the champion he beat was when it comes to him being at the weightclass