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Earlier today in Tokyo the Japanese media had the chance to attend a long awaited press conference to announce the next big Ohashi Gym card. The announcement had been anticipated for several week and is likely to be one of the few Japanese announcements to have fight fans around the world paying attention to it.
The reason it was so anticipated is due to the fact it related to the return of Japanese sensation Naoya Inoue (9-0, 8) [井上 尚弥], and his first bout of 2016. The youngster is one of the few Asian fighters who can generate a buzz in the west and is a man that is very much seen as part of the future of world boxing, with both Boxnation and HBO mentioning his name in recent months.
The announcement of who Inoue,the WBO Super Flyweight champion, was set to face was no shock, it's long been known that he would be up against WBO mandatory challenger David Carmona (20-2-5, 8). The opponent wasn't the most exhilarating or anything like that but it was a mandatory that the WBO had ordered at the start of the year.
Whilst the match up was no surprise, and was very well known about, what was news was the date of the bout and the co-feature bout.
The reason it was so anticipated is due to the fact it related to the return of Japanese sensation Naoya Inoue (9-0, 8) [井上 尚弥], and his first bout of 2016. The youngster is one of the few Asian fighters who can generate a buzz in the west and is a man that is very much seen as part of the future of world boxing, with both Boxnation and HBO mentioning his name in recent months.
The announcement of who Inoue,the WBO Super Flyweight champion, was set to face was no shock, it's long been known that he would be up against WBO mandatory challenger David Carmona (20-2-5, 8). The opponent wasn't the most exhilarating or anything like that but it was a mandatory that the WBO had ordered at the start of the year.
Whilst the match up was no surprise, and was very well known about, what was news was the date of the bout and the co-feature bout.
exactly what i read.
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