Pound-for-pound king Naoya Inoue (the Japanese star the P-4-P finest proper now within the opinion of many, however with loads extra handing the excellence Terence Crawford’s means, or Oleksandr Usyk’s) wants a brand new opponent for his deliberate Might 4 return to the US. The unique plan was for “The Monster” to struggle unbeaten Mexican Alan Picasso in Las Vegas, however now – as per a report from Salvador Rodriguez – Picasso has, for no matter cause, declined the struggle.
It’s not clear who Picasso – who would have been getting the largest and presumably best-paid struggle of his whole profession with the shot on the unified tremendous bantamweight champ – will now struggle as an alternative. There are some options that say Picasso, 31-0-1(17) was suggested by the nice Erik Morales to say no the struggle as he’s not but prepared for as advantageous a fighter as Inoue. In any case, Inoue, unbeaten at 29-0(26) now wants a contemporary dance companion for his US ring return.
As per Rodriguez, there are a trio of fighters who at the moment are in line to get the Inoue gig on Might 4, these fighters being: Ramon Cardenas, Murodjon Akhmadaliev, and Bryan Mercado. And one other up to date report says “MJ,” Akhmadaliev will probably get the struggle. If that’s the case, that is truly nice information. Picasso, nearly as good as he would possibly or won’t be (we could by no means know), isn’t any Akhmadaliev.
Akhmadaliev has as we all know been stating for some time now how Inoue has been “ducking” a struggle with him. Now, if this struggle occurs on Might 4, Inoue will get the possibility to make Akhmadaliev eat his phrases.
Inoue needs to be a really lively fighter this 12 months, and the preliminary plan was for the 31-year-old to field 4 instances in whole right here in 2025. Inoue was final seen taking out a recreation however outclassing Ye Joon Kim on January twenty fifth. Loads of struggle followers are excited to see Inoue again in America.
