Tremendous bantamweight kingpin Naoya Inoue’s inaugural undisputed protection is already on the desk, as Mike Coppinger reviews that “The Monster” has agreed to face Luis Nery in Tokyo this Could.
By no means has the time period “hostile territory” been extra acceptable. Nery (35-1, 27 KO), who gritted his well beyond Azat Hovhannisyan in a vicious conflict final February and adopted up by smoking the overmatched Froilan Saludar, is persona non grata in Japan after failing a drug take a look at and subsequently lacking weight in back-to-back knockouts of Shinsuke Yamanaka.
These led to a lifetime ban, however per ESPN, “officers concerned have been assured the Mexican might be reinstated.” To be honest, in the event you actually wished to punish somebody, there are few crueler choices than pitting them towards Inoue (26-0, 23 KO).
Hyperbole apart, Nery is arguably Inoue’s greatest remaining menace at 122 alongside Murodjon Akhmadaliev. “Greatest” is a relative time period, in fact, however “Pantera” hits more durable than any Inoue opponent to this point and has some craft to again it up. The one approach this doesn’t produce fireworks is that if one in every of them goes down early.
I say Inoue finishes him to the physique in seven. What do you assume?
