Who's the pound-for-pound best boxer between Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue?
Roy Jones Jr. has a take on it.
"I think that dude is really pound-for-pound No. 1. He just don't have the competition at that weight class to have that big fight to get it right now, and the United States don't know him because we don't have big fighters in his weight class over here that we know that good," Jones said of Inoue while speaking with Stephen Jackson on All the Smoke Fight.
"So he's really pound-for-pound No. 1, but because he doesn't have the opposition to prove it, I've got to leave 'Bud' there," he continued. "And the reason I leave 'Bud' there is because 'Bud' was there for so long with the same problem Inoue had. He had no opponent to be able to prove it with."
The boxing legend went on to state how it took Crawford's destruction of Errol Spence Jr. last July to change all that for the former undisputed welterweight king, and how it will take a same caliber opponent for Inoue to raise the Japanese star's level.
"Inoue, I think is No. 1," Jones added, "but he's going to have to be No. 2 for now because he doesn't have that opponent, but that's a bad dude."
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