
Luis Nery: record, next fight and profile →


Naoya Inoue and Luis Nery worked out of a brief clinch, and the southpaw Nery was crouched slightly lower than Inoue. Seeing his opponent’s head at shoulder level, Inoue popped him in the chin with a short left uppercut, but there wasn’t much on it — not enough to deter Nery from letting loose with a full-force left cross. And with Inoue’s right glove lowered as he wound up to follow his left uppercut with a right cross, Nery’s left landed perfectly on the junior featherweight champion’s exposed jaw, twisting him 180 degrees as he spun counterclockwise to the canvas for the first time in his career.


In Monday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Chris Algieri calls unified junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue his favorite fighter.

TOKYO – I don’t know what I was expecting, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t expecting that. The pitch of the cheers was different, the weigh-ins, the pageantry, the respect, the routines, it was all different.

TOKYO – Luis Nery might have cut a dejected figure this morning. There was discolouration around his eyes but as he sat in the hotel lobby, he posed for pictures and signed autographs for the fans. He smiled more than he had all week.


TOKYO – The story had already been written before it was played out in front of more than 40,000 frenzied fans at the Tokyo Dome. The stage had been set. We had seen the commercial. Japan’s leading man, the boyish wrecking machine that is Naoya Inoue was fighting for the honor of his country against the villain of the piece, Luis Nery.

Naoya Inoue survived a scare and a first-round knockdown at the Tokyo Dome on Monday to drop Mexican challenger Luis Nery three times on his way to a spectacular sixth-round knockout.

Brandon Figueroa expects the “complete” Naoya Inoue to stop Luis Nery when they fight on Monday