The boxing world is still reverberating over Naoya Inoue moving up in weight and dismantling Stephen Fulton in such scintillating fashion to become the new unified super bantamweight world champion Tuesday in Tokyo.
The spectacular victory improved Inoue's record to 25-0 with 22 of those wins coming by the way of knockout. Inoue's 88 percent knockout ratio coincidentally puts him right up there with another KO artist with real boxing skills in WBA (Regular) lightweight champion Gervonta Davis, who touts a 93 percent KO ratio.
Though there's 13 pounds that separates the two, could boxing fans ever see the day that "The Monster" steps up in weight yet again to challenge "Tank?"
As crazy as the idea sounds, Stephen Espinoza, president of Showtime Sports, entertained it while speaking with FightHype.com on Wednesday.
"Look — I think you never know," Espinoza started saying about a Davis-Inoue dream match. "[Inoue's] come up a lot of weight already, but he's been carrying the power the whole time. Yeah, it sounds a little bit crazy now thinking about where they are, [Inoue's] at 122, but it's only 13 more pounds."
He added: "It's intriguing. I would love to see Inoue and Tank. If he could move up ... and after that performance yesterday, I wouldn't put anything out of his reach."
Espinoza even compared it to how Manny Pacquiao moved up to welterweight to fight Oscar De La Hoya in December 2008 and how some critics vowed it would be a landslide in favor of "The Golden Boy."
"A lot of people said it was a mismatch. It turned out to be a mismatch but not the way people thought it would."
Pacquiao dominated his way to a stoppage victory.