Yeah, but technically it was not Murad who make Pacquiao a household name. And so that is what I'm saying here, the Bob Arum has the formula and blue print already and probably this is only the reason why he did want to bring Inoue in the USA. Already Inoue's name is already big, but the center of boxing is in the US and for sure Inoue an even surpassed Manny as the biggest in Asia if he will just go and fight outside of Japan.
With this fight, I'm thinking that I might go under 7.5 rounds here.
Sam doesn't have the power and then Inoue is going to be too fast for him. Not sure what other boxing fans are thinking here, others might agree or disagree with me regarding which rounds will Inoue stop Goodman.
The US hasn’t been the center of boxing since HBO and Showtime got out of the business. Due to investments from DAZN, the Saudi government, and some other players, the sport has become more international. Out of the top 10 in ESPN’s pound for pound list, only 5 of them fought at least once in the US in 2024. Compared to a decade ago, it was very rare to see a fighter based outside of the US in the top 10.
I think it's because of the emergence of combat sports like UFC that really lead to the downfall of boxing in the US. But still for me I consider it as the center, which many great American boxers right now. But I will do agree that there are a lot of players like the Saudi with their big money, that really pushes some to be out, and then it's the British invasion with the likes of Matchroom's Eddie Hearn. And then there where times wherein the promoters wanted in-house money, just like what Top Rank did and GBP promotions. It is that they just cooperated later when Eddie Hearn and to some extend Frank Warren make their presence felt in the last 10 years in the US soil. Plus the PPV numbers are very expensive and then we have illegal streamers that really killed HBO and Sho as they can't make money out of the boxing fans in the US.