
For William Zepeda, Sharing the Ring With Lomachenko Would Be an Honor
William Zepeda, one of the most feared lightweights, claims that he “transforms” when he gets in the ring.

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William Zepeda, one of the most feared lightweights, claims that he “transforms” when he gets in the ring.

It’s a tale of two cities this weekend in Japan as Tokyo prepares for Naoya Inoue-Luis Nery next Monday (May 6) and Osaka prepares itself ahead of Emmanuel Rodriguez-Ryosuke Nishida on Saturday (May 4). In 2019, Rodriguez lost the IBF bantamweight title to Japanese “Monster” Naoya Inoue, which he managed to recapture last year against Melving Lopez after Inoue had cleared out the bantamweight division. Pushing all of his chips in once again, Rodriguez goes to Japan to defend the same title against southpaw Nishida. Just two days and around 300 miles apart, Inoue also makes arguably the biggest bet of his career on May 6 against Mexican Nery in Tokyo, for all of his super bantamweight world titles.

Subriel Matias has been lined up for a voluntary defense against Liam Paro in a June homecoming fight in Puerto Rico, but Pedro Cruz assures that Matias' new promoter has designs on the other big names at 140 pounds for his fighter.