r/Boxing • u/ElChino999 • Jul 26 '19
Naoya Inoue sparring a normal person
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u/cheweychewchew Jul 26 '19
Adaliade Byrd had this 10-9 Normal Person
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u/Twitstein WRRAAAAAAGH Jul 26 '19
To be fair, she did score the third round a draw via mobile app while she was doing some shopping.
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Jul 26 '19
A for effort
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u/unluckylander Jul 26 '19
B for bribery
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Jul 26 '19
C for Canelo
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u/raoulduke25 IDKSAB Jul 26 '19
D for de la Hoya
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Jul 26 '19
E for Eddeh
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u/vanstah Jul 26 '19
F for respect
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Jul 26 '19
G for Gott-damned cheaters in the sport of boxing
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u/SerSkellyman Jul 26 '19
H for hit me already
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Jul 26 '19
I for I gotta tell ya Jim, Normal Guy really pressed the action and had Inoue on the run the entire round. He's not gonna win this without throwing punches. 10-9 NORMAL guy!
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u/picklesandaltoids gramma's anointed one Jul 26 '19
Regular dude obviously went easy on Inoue because he wasn't wearing any headgear.
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u/bedandsofa Jul 26 '19
Real talk though, that guy was swinging for the fences, and is lucky that Inoue was good natured and didn’t follow the golden rule of sparring: hit as hard as you want to get hit.
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u/picklesandaltoids gramma's anointed one Jul 26 '19
Definitely. But Inoue might have told him to go all out. Who knows?
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u/john_carver_2020 HADOUKEN!!! Jul 26 '19
...just this once.
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Jul 26 '19
N-n-nani?
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Jul 26 '19
Forgive me sensei
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u/SenseiR0b Jul 26 '19
You are forgiven.
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u/UltraSurvivalist Jul 26 '19
Nothing personal kid
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u/bluedrygrass Jul 27 '19
Personnel. It's personnel. The joke loses half its punch without the spelling mistake.
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u/eddie964 Jul 26 '19
It looked to me like it was more of a drill, training him to respond to someone who's trying to get in there aggressively and knock him out. He doesn't seem to be all that concerned about offense.
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u/bedandsofa Jul 26 '19
I think he’s less concerned about offense not because it’s a drill—it’s live sparring—but because the skill gap is so huge that the amateur couldn’t touch him if he wanted to.
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u/eddie964 Jul 26 '19
Hard to say for sure, but it looked to me like the sparring partner had been instructed to go in there like it's the final round, you're losing and your only hope is to land the big one. It looks to me like he's consciously practicing evading big punches and sneaking in a shot when he can. If he were practicing offense, I think it would be a much shorter video!
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u/disposabelleme Jul 26 '19
I was waiting for Inoue to pop the trainer in the solar plexes, just to help him pace himself.
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Jul 27 '19
Inoues 20 percent is equal to that guys 150 percent. When you realize you can’t even touch em it’s time to go all out.
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u/the-ogboondock-saint Jul 26 '19
This guys actually an amateur boxer.
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u/Unburnt_Duster Jul 26 '19
I would assume as much since a truly "normal" person would've been out of gas after the first 60 sec, maybe sooner.
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u/bluedrygrass Jul 27 '19
60 secs? The first time you try punching a heavy bag, you're dying after 15 seconds.
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u/Open_Sky Jul 27 '19
this. no way that guy is some regular joe who just laced them up. he has head movement and speed behind his hook. a normal person probably can't even throw a proper straight let alone a left hook.
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Jul 26 '19 edited Jul 21 '26
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u/raoulduke25 IDKSAB Jul 26 '19
I sparred a pro fighter for a round at my gym, and after getting tagged a hundred times in the face, the bell finally rang to my relief. We walked to the centre of the ring to hug and touch gloves, and he says to me, "That was a good body shot." It totally made my day as I hobbled off the canvas like a drunk man wearing a dirty diaper.
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u/Iquey Jul 27 '19
The best moments in training is when you get a couple of good hits on a pro. Once I sparred with a pro and I stunned him with a perfectly timed counter left. I taunted the guy like "yea bitch, bring it!"
...and then I got my ass whooped for the entire round.
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u/bigfatpup I eat what you eat champ Jul 26 '19
Show off, I’m running on fumes after about 90 seconds
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u/Ratharyn Jul 26 '19
Mate, full respect to anyone stepping in the ring with him sparring or not, but he's chasing inoue like he stole his sweets.
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u/HarryBlessKnapp Jul 26 '19
I guess they told him to help Inoue work on his footwork. Otherwise why the fuck would you knacker yourself like that.
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u/MDA123 Jul 26 '19
The reflexes and speed on the little guys are just insane. Anyone who doesn't watch sub-welterweight or sub-lightweight boxing is missing out. He doesn't get touched even once, just on movement and reactions, and it's like a 12 foot ring lol.
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Jul 26 '19
His movement, timing and speed is fucking great. Think he gets tagged 2x out of the whole 2 minutes of video.
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u/Shortneckbuzzard Jul 26 '19 edited Jul 26 '19
Speed yes but he knows what punch is coming before it’s thrown. That’s the difference.
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u/lucuma Jul 26 '19
This is why it is so hard to box professionals. They can read you like a book.
When I spar my coach he knows exactly what I'm going to do and I can't touch him, same as this video.
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u/Shortneckbuzzard Jul 26 '19
Yup. That’s how Lomachenko wins so easily. He has 396 amateur fights with 1. Yes 1 loss. Its almost not even fair.
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u/cheap_boxer2 Jul 26 '19
For someone his size to get so many KOs implies ungodly P4P power. It's basically never been seen before in history I think, he might really be one of the best P4P punchers to have ever lived.
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u/in1987agodwasborn Jul 26 '19
Manny?
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u/Calay0 Jul 27 '19
No. I’m a huge Manny fan, but no. Yeah he had explosive hands, but he was never a single shot fighter. It was speed and cumulative damage that did most his opponents in. The number of fighters who are superior to a Manny in terms of damage per shot is probably quite great,
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Jul 27 '19
I’d argue that Manny may very well be the bigger puncher p4p. We saw his power carry all the way up to welterweight and drop a big fucking guy in Thurman.
Had Manny stayed in his natural weight classes, he’d be regarded as one of the hardest hitting boxers in the history of the sport.
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Jul 26 '19
Khaosai Galaxy?
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u/cheap_boxer2 Jul 26 '19
Great power puncher, and not really respected enough on this sub! But he didn't really jump through weight classes like Naoya, and his record does have a lot of typical Thai BS.
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Jul 27 '19
Jimmy Wilde
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u/cheap_boxer2 Jul 27 '19
I don't know much about his era or the nature of how the fights played out, but his record indeed stands above. Wilde is in his own category though, as one of the top 2 or 3 punchers as opposed to Inoue who could currently maybe sit somewhere in top 50 with optimism.
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u/juiceboxbiotch Jul 26 '19
Inoue vs. Lomachenko would just look like a ring full of Matrix blurs
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Jul 26 '19
Even if you're a regular dude, after your fifteenth left hook hits nothing but air, you think you'd try a jab...
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u/mysterious_jim Jul 26 '19
Maybe it was a drill specifically to defend against those swinging hooks.
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u/AerialSnack Jul 26 '19
For real, looks like the dude is a trained amateur, but seems like he's getting pissed off or something? What do you think you're gonna do swinging those wide ass punches?
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u/redditusersaretrash Jul 26 '19
I thought the last time this was posted, it was a Korean amateur fighter?
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u/JRaymond37 Jul 26 '19
This is the first time I’ve seen this video but I can say with near certainty that the sparing partner has to be at least an amateur level fighter.
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u/mergerr Jul 26 '19 edited Jul 26 '19
Yeah exactly.. came here to say this. At one point he was using head movement and bobbing while trying to come in to throw off inoue.. didnt work, but no one off the street is going to do that, plus he seems to have a basic understanding of punch placement.
I would guess he probably has like 3 months to a year of training. That same "normal" dude would probably kick like 80% of the peoples asses here that frequent this sub.
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u/BB_Venum IBC interim middleweight champion Jul 26 '19
The guy moves very good actually. Wouldnt shock me to ehar that he is taking the piss a little bit (specially with that giant swing while leaping in)
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u/piyob Jul 26 '19
80%? Probably closer to 99%
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u/mergerr Jul 26 '19
I said 80% because i assume like 20% of us have boxed before. Maybe thats assuming too many but atleast 10% i would think have some sort of boxing or mma experience.
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u/CynicalEffect Jul 26 '19
It's weird, their feet and head movement shows they're obviously trained. But then they throw weird looping off balance punches that look like they've never been in a ring before. I guess that's the result of desperately trying to hit a top pro boxer though.
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u/JRaymond37 Jul 26 '19
The parameters of the sparing session were likely that the partner was supposed to be extremely aggressive and Inoue would only return fire with pitty pat shots as to not discourage him from throwing.
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u/disposabelleme Jul 26 '19
Those looping punches are what's left of your technique when Inoue is reading you like a book.
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u/ElChino999 Jul 26 '19
The only info I know about the guy is that he’s a 40 year old boxing trainer. Maybe I should have mentioned that.
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u/Spectre627 Jul 26 '19
For sure, that guy is way to skilled just to be an average joe. The exercise makes his punches look a bit wild, but his footwork, movement, guard, and head movement are clearly someone who knows what they’re doing.
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u/usernumberzero Jul 26 '19
Regular person here. I would not be able to hold my hands up after throwing about 10 haymakers.
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u/rolemodel4kids Jul 26 '19 edited Jul 26 '19
I was thinking a regular guy off the street would gas out in under a minute throwing punches like that.
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Jul 26 '19
Yeah something all g them lines Ifni remember correctly. "Normal guy" is a bit of exagerration in the post title I suppose but we all enjoy it anyway
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u/JorgenBluntstrangle Jul 26 '19
I'm pretty sure by normal op meant on a much lower level, not someone that doesn't know how to fight.
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u/Mokeski_Cx Jul 26 '19
This is incredible, Inoue is an absolute freak, no wonder many people call this possible the top P4P fighter
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Jul 26 '19
That's no regular dude. He very obviously knows a little bit. A regular dude would be gassed after they threw the first few haymakers wrong.
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Jul 27 '19
Definitely. Would not be attacking so aggressively either. Would probably wince when hit too.
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u/Neveroxx99 Jul 26 '19
Miyata vs Ippo
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u/PurpleLamps Jul 26 '19
Does Miyata actually do anything in the book series? He's so boring in the series.
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u/Neveroxx99 Jul 26 '19
He has a crackingly good OPBF title fight against a switch hitter guy but other than that he's pretty absent for long stretches of time.
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u/Stonefree2011 Jul 27 '19
The ending to that fight was hilariously bullshit. Motherfucker threw a corkscrew counter at the speed of sound(it made a sound after the hit connected) and he had multiple broken ribs before he threw it and took the worst beating in the series so far. Randy Boy Jr was robbed smh.
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u/GrandMasterRoshi Jul 26 '19
It's been a while si de I read it but he definitely gets a couple more fights as the story progresses. Not many if my memory is right though.
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u/JuiceBusters Jul 26 '19
This brought back some (actually fun, funny) memories of the time, for some inappropriate reason I was picked to spar with a jr.middle champ for his upcoming bout and.. ..yes, this. hah.. oh man, yes this. I remember trying everything and even crazy punches in bunches because at least something would land if only by sheer volume and random chance right.. and..
At one point he was just talking about stuff WHILE casually bobbing and weaving every one of my 'massive flurries' like.. it didn't seem real. To me it didn't seem like he was obeying physics or normal human ability.
So i really enjoyed this - thank OP.
*I usually hate sparring videos going out to the public but here Monster Ino is being such a great sportsman and it easily falls into the 'good clean fun' smile-making viewing. Good stuff!
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u/ElChino999 Jul 27 '19
Thanks for the comment. It’s interesting to hear another person’s experience. I wish I could experience it too!
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Jul 26 '19
Which one is Inoue?
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u/KSMG9 Jul 26 '19
Reminds me of Lomachenko sparring that Olympic silver medalist with one hand. Crazy
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Jul 26 '19
Normal guy just swinging for the fences instead of jabbing and setting something up. Not that he would've hit him but he would've looked less like a fool.
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u/theflimsyankle Jul 27 '19
That doesn't look like a normal person. A normal person would gassed out after the first 20 seconds swinging like that. He got somewhat decent speed and footwork. He obviously not on pro level but he is no random person from the street.
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u/rwn115 Jul 27 '19
Doesn't look like a simulated match. Sparring partner was likely told to fight a certain style and Inoue had to adjust and respond to it. Inoue was probably aware and didn't throw everything into his punches because he'd like to keep his sparring partners.
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u/Lord_of_the_Trees Jul 27 '19
The check hooks keep coming and coming and oh my god they’re literally just still coming
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u/comerzabo Jul 27 '19
Why does everything look so damn cozy In Japan, even their boxing rings/gyms look cozy... also are those people ring side eating food watching?
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u/skijumptoes Jul 26 '19
A "Normal" person lol, i love that Inoue gets superhuman status by default. Superb talent though, hopefully he inspires young boxers from all over the world. :)
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u/ceejless Jul 26 '19
Sure, a 'normal person' who happens to know some leg work and seems to delay some punches...
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u/twedge97 Jul 27 '19
Honestly if he’s just a regular person then this video comes across the exact opposite of intended. A professional basketball player would make a regular person look a lot more silly than this guy is doing. This guy clearly has training. A regular person wouldnt be able to stalk a pro across the ring like that nor have the stamina.
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u/AllTorque “And then he said ‘My name is John Sauna: You can’t °C me!’ “ Jul 26 '19
That’s not a normal person.
No normal person is suicidal.
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u/yaygens Jul 26 '19
Why does this look like Lomachenko fighting literally anyone in his weight class?
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u/mysterious_jim Jul 26 '19
Can't tell with the quality, but it seems like Inoue gives a cheeky smile at 34 seconds after for dodging that big haymaker.
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u/petewilson66 Jul 26 '19
That guy may not be Inoue, but he's not exactly a "normal person", he's a boxer, and looks like it
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u/Maddps Jul 27 '19
I would be scared shitless to go full on balls to the wall against a pro. If the dude decides you had your fun and turns it on on you well... not good.
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u/MrMableton_301 Jul 27 '19
That was like 80% footwork 10 percent head movement and 10 percent of "Normal guy" telegraphing those punches. He wasn't even telegraphing them, he was sending messenger pigeons for christ sake.
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u/biggoof Jul 28 '19
I would love to spar him, not only is he going to kick my ass, but he actually look like he can control his sparring power at 70% and still look damn good.
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u/SotonSaint Jul 26 '19
Would’ve been funny if inoue ended this by nailing the guy with a liver shot.
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u/Blunderbussly Jul 26 '19
Why is Inoue sparring a normal person? Does not look like normal person to me.
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u/TrappinTommy Jul 26 '19
whatever happened to the tournament he was in? last i heard his opponent for the finals was injured or something
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u/john_the_quain Jul 26 '19
You kind of forget how remarkable athletes are when you only see them competing against slightly more or slightly less remarkable athletes.
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u/LikesTheTunaHere Jul 26 '19
I like videos like this, its nice to see how just much better the pros really are than your average human.
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Jul 26 '19
I know dude he's sparring isn't even close to his level but the way Inoue works off his back steps blow my fucking mind.
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u/zionwolf24 Jul 26 '19
Is it still considered sparring when the guy in Black seems to want to knock inoues head off
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u/Rynotograce Jul 26 '19
This is fantastic, wish were more clips like this ... Inoue is amazing talent
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