The steadiness was restored final night time in Las Vegas, this as Japanese celebrity and pound-for-pounder Naoya Inoue went to battle with a gutsy and ever so sturdy and harmful Ramon Cardenas. The slugfest the 2 tremendous bantamweights engaged in served as a a lot wanted treatment to the sheer and utter boredom battle followers needed to endure on Friday night time and once more on Saturday night time, this as punch-stat information for least quantity of punches landed have been set in fights that includes Rolly Romero, Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, Jose Ramirez, and Canelo Alvarez and William Scull.
There was nothing however electrical energy within the ring inside The T-Cell final night time. Inoue, knocked down for simply the second time in his profession, as soon as once more by a left hand, once more confirmed his mettle by getting up and shortly firing again together with his personal bombs.
Inoue, now 30-0(27) rocked Mexican warrior Cardenas in spherical 4, with “The Monster” once more hurting his man within the sixth. It was nice motion, because the courageous challenger was keen to commerce, this in an effort at touchdown one thing massive.
However 32 yr previous Inoue – not solely one of the best or the second greatest fighter on the planet, but in addition one of the persistently thrilling-to-watch operators – was in management in an enormous spherical seven, with Cardenas happening from a collection of proper arms. Cardenas was then stopped with lower than a minute gone in spherical eight. However what an excellent battle it was, a FOTY contender, for positive.
Now 26-2(14), Cardenas, a former cab driver, can come once more. As for Inoue, he was troubled by Cardenas’ measurement, energy and energy, and that talked of transfer as much as featherweight may show to be a heck of a danger for the unified 122 pound king. Not solely that, however Murodjon Akhmadaliev, who is about to face Inoue in September, could have preferred what he noticed from Cardenas, his left hand particularly. “MJ,” a southpaw, carries actual energy in his personal left hand, and now that we’ve got seen Inoue go down twice in his profession from left arms (Luis Nery additionally managing the feat), there can be some thought that perhaps Inoue may have a troublesome time of issues in opposition to the person from Uzbekistan.
However that battle remains to be sooner or later. For now, we battle followers thank Inoue and Cardenas for giving us and the game the shot within the arm that was so badly wanted after a dreary Friday and a uninteresting Saturday. 29 yr previous Cardenas stood in shut and he tried to counter Inoue, whereas the champion confirmed once more that he can overcome adversity.
However future fights with the likes of Akhmadaliev, Junto Nakatani, and Nick Ball may show to be career-defining ones for Inoue.
