Australian warrior Jason Moloney, training for a crucial bout with Tenshin Nasukawa next month, has a unique perspective on Friday’s fight in Japan between undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue and challenger Ye Joon Kim.
Bantamweight Moloney fought Inoue in Las Vegas in 2020, and has recently bagged sparring rounds with the South Korean challenger.
“I’d never done any work with him before, but I was told he was in Brisbane and he was a southpaw,” Moloney told BoxingScene. “He was pretty handy, so I went over and sparred with him last week. When we were sparring, they said, ‘We’re on in two weeks and the replacement position, if [Sam] Goodman pulls out, we’ll get the shot.’”
