The four-grains undisputed 122-pound champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue (29-0, 26 COs) will defend his titles next Sunday, May 4 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas against his #2 WBA colored contender Ramon Cardenas (26-1, 14 COs).
If Naoya, 32, wins, he will defend against the WBA -Tuss -Tussy Super Bantamweight Champion Murodjon akhmadaliev (13-1, 10 food) on September 14 in Tokyo, Japan.
Inoue takes the harder match against Akhmadsliev in his homeland of Japan and his easy defense against Cardenas in the US, which is a classic inoues move, and one of the reasons many people so Don’t like he. He does not take risks.
Cardenas: the tune-up
The ring The news about Inoue’s plans for the Cardenas and Akhamdali fights broke. It will look better for Inhees if he skips the Cardenas fight and goes directly into the Akhmadaliev fight on May 4 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. He can defend against Cardenas in Japan.
Boxing fans are not familiar with Ramon Cardenas because he fought his entire nine-year professional career of nine years against obscure opposition. The WBA has a high no. 2 -ranked, but his recent victories came against these fighters:
– Bryan Acosta
– Jesus Ramirez Rubio
– Israel Rodriguez Picazo
– Rafael Pedraza
This is the problem with the Super Bantamweight section. It is one of those weight classes that does not have talent. Anyone can get up in that weight class by building an unbeaten record against taxi drivers.
Things are very different at featherweight, where there are actually good fighters, which would give Naoya a real test and probably beat him. He didn’t want to make the move, and that’s understanding why. Life is easy for inoue at 122, which is on Ramon Cardenas, Ye Joon Kim, TJ Doheny and Luis Nery.
Marinating battles
People would like to see inoues Get it over with And fight Junto Nakatani now rather than slowly marinating the fight like a pot roast, and building it up to get the most out of it. Naoya will not have to marinate if he moves to 126, 130 and 135 and adopted this killer of murderers:
– Rafael Espinoza
– Lamont Roach
– Emanuel Navarre
– Keyshawn Davis
– Shakur Stevenson
– Gervonta Davis
Last updated on 03/06/2025
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