Though 2019 gave us some great heavyweight action – Andy Ruiz’ first, shocking fight with Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder’s two sizzling KO’s – 2019 was very much a year of the little men. » Read More
Naoya Inoue, the WBA/IBF bantamweight king – a strong contender for 2019 Fighter of the Year: a savage and quick KO over an unbeaten Emanuel Rodriguez and a tough and thrilling decision win over a future Hall of Famer in Nonito Donaire. » Read More
Last Thursday morning, from Saitama, Japan – in a bantamweight championship unification bout that was broadcast in the US by the relatively new powerhouse streaming app service known as DAZN – WBA bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire squared off against IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue. » Read More
IBF/WBA bantamweight champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue’s 12 round unanimous decision victory over WBA champ Nonito ‘The Filipino Flash’ Donaire (40-6, 26 KOs) was a costly one last Thursday with the Japanese suffering a couple of injuries to his face. » Read More
Often in this often unforgiving sport, a great fighter shows his greatness in defeat, when losing the big one (think, for one obvious example, Meldrick Taylor and his ‘two seconds from glory’ heart-breaker against Julio Cesar Chavez). » Read More
Naoya Inoue overcame the heroic Nonito Donaire to claim a points victory to win the Ali Trophy in the bantamweight edition of the World Boxing Super Series in Saitama, Japan. » Read More
It sure is going to be a tough job picking just one fight when it comes to 2019’s Fight of the Year distinction. » Read More
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Unified bantamweight champion and pound-for-pound great to make Top Rank debut on an ESPN platform in early 2020
WBA/IBF bantamweight world champion Naoya “Monster” Inoue, a 5-foot-4½ three-weight world champion who has climbed the pound-for-pound rankings with devastating knockouts against normally iron-chinned foes, is coming to America. » Read More
WBA bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (40-5, 26 KOs) gave IBF/WBA champ Naoya Inoue (19-0, 16 KOs) the fight of his life in losing to him by an exciting 12 round unanimous decision in the WBSS final on Thursday at the Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. » Read More
This Thursday in Japan, bantamweight sensation, indeed power-punching sensation, Naoya Inoue will face, perhaps, his career toughest fight as he will lock horns with the classy and experienced Nonito Donaire. » Read More