Comments Thread For: Naoya Inoue's next fight is set: Ramon Cardenas on May 4 in Las Vegas

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Undisputed junior featherweight champion and pound-for-pound star Naoya Inoue will face Ramon Cardenas on May 4 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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[ShoulderRoll]

Awesome.

Top Rank Protection Program in full effect.

[famicommander]

Awesome.

Top Rank Protection Program in full effect.

TBRB top 5 at 122:
C. Naoya Inoue
1. Murodjon Akhmadaliev (Inoue is fighting him in September)
2. Marlon Tapales (Inoue already stopped him)
3. Sam Goodman (pulled out of the Inoue fight 3 times)
4. Luis Nery (Inoue already stopped him)
5. Ramon Cardenas

What else do you want? He has already said his next four intended opponents are Cardenas, Akhmadaliev, Nick Ball, and Junto Nakatani.

[letsbox10]

TBRB top 5 at 122:
C. Naoya Inoue
1. Murodjon Akhmadaliev (Inoue is fighting him in September)
2. Marlon Tapales (Inoue already stopped him)
3. Sam Goodman (pulled out of the Inoue fight 3 times)
4. Luis Nery (Inoue already stopped him)
5. Ramon Cardenas

What else do you want? He has already said his next four intended opponents are Cardenas, Akhmadaliev, Nick Ball, and Junto Nakatani.

Them haters know nothing but hating.

[CarlW]

Them haters know nothing but hating.

They know a little about beclowning themselves too,

[ShoulderRoll]

TBRB top 5 at 122:
C. Naoya Inoue
1. Murodjon Akhmadaliev (Inoue is fighting him in September)
2. Marlon Tapales (Inoue already stopped him)
3. Sam Goodman (pulled out of the Inoue fight 3 times)
4. Luis Nery (Inoue already stopped him)
5. Ramon Cardenas

What else do you want? He has already said his next four intended opponents are Cardenas, Akhmadaliev, Nick Ball, and Junto Nakatani.

Akhmadaliev. They better make him drop that belt if he keeps putting that fight off.

[famicommander]

Akhmadaliev. They better make him drop that belt if he keeps putting that fight off.

He's literally fighting him in September. It would've already happened if Sam Goodman (who was both IBF and WBO mandatory challenger) hadn't pulled out of 3 different fights and wasted everybody's time.

[letsbox10]

Akhmadaliev. They better make him drop that belt if he keeps putting that fight off.

It was Akhmadaliev's own team who wanted September date and inoue negotiated the September fight as they wanted.

[ShoulderRoll]

He's literally fighting him in September. It would've already happened if Sam Goodman (who was both IBF and WBO mandatory challenger) hadn't pulled out of 3 different fights and wasted everybody's time.

It would’ve already happened but Sam Goodman …it would’ve already happened but TJ Doheny…

Better happen next.

[famicommander]

It would’ve already happened but Sam Goodman …it would’ve already happened but TJ Doheny…

Better happen next.

Doheny was a replacement for Goodman the first time Goodman pulled out, and that fight only happened because Inoue was already contractually locked into a fight at that venue on that date and Akhmadaliev refused. Doheny was Inoue's third choice; he was just the best opponent willing to show up and fight at the time and place Inoue's contract required.

Then Goodman pulled out a second time, delaying the fight. Then he pulled out a third time and Kim took the fight on a few days' notice.