In 2020 Jason Moloney was offered the chance to face Inoue for the IBF and WBA bantamweight titles in a temporary venue known as ‘The Bubble’ at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The Australian jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n
Moloney, who went on to become a WBO bantamweight champion in 2023, describes taking Inoue’s best shots.<\/p>\n
“It’s like a shocking power,” he says.<\/p>\n
“You go into the fight – you know he’s the Monster. You’ve seen his knockouts. You’ve heard about his power.<\/p>\n
“He was throwing a few, I was catching a few on the gloves and I thought ‘this is OK, this is nothing I can’t handle’. But when he lands them, they’re just so crisp.<\/p>\n
“It’s a real shock that just sort of goes right through you like electric. They’re not nice to wear.”<\/p>\n
Butler felt the power too, but says Inoue’s puching power is different to that of a one-punch knockout artist.<\/p>\n
“In round eight as I’m moving round to my corner, he hit me with a backhand with two seconds to go,” Butler says.<\/p>\n
“It hit me flush on the chin. I remember the bell going and I cannot remember a word of what Joe said to me in that corner. <\/p>\n
“I remember standing up to go out for round nine and thinking ‘wow, my legs are still shaky’. I still couldn’t feel them.<\/p>\n
“It’s more so the timing, the speed and the accuracy.<\/p>\n
“It’s more the all-round power around it, rather than a one-shot Deontay Wilder-type power.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2020 Jason Moloney was offered the chance to face Inoue for the IBF and WBA bantamweight titles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}