Naoya Inoue

Naoya Inoue, Hiroto Kyoguchi To See Action at Charity Event

World champions Naoya Inoue and Hiroto Kyoguchi will star in a charity event called “Legend”, to be held on February 11, in Tokyo, Japan. The two fighters will join other great Japanese boxers, who will perform different exhibition bouts for differen...

Inoue-Dasmarinas: Date, Site Of Fight Depends On COVID-19 Restrictions In Japan

Naoya Inoue and his handlers know who he will fight next. Determining when and where Inoue will return to the ring is much more complicated. Representatives for Inoue and Michael Dasmarinas, the mandatory challenger for his IBF bantamweight title, re...

Inoue, Dasmarinas Reach Terms For Mandatory Title Fight, Purse Bid Cancelled

Naoya Inoue's continued quest for bantamweight supremacy will now include a Hot and Spicy mandatory title defense. The undefeated three-division and reigning unified 118-pound titlist will next face Philippines’ Michael ‘Hot and Spicy’ Dasmarinas, th...

Kazuto Ioka May Make Run at Inoue, Fifth Title Before Retiring, Says Trainer

Kazuto Ioka (26-2) cemented his legacy on New Year's Eve, stopping unbeaten three-division champion Kosei Tanaka (15-1) in eight rounds to retain his WBO super flyweight title. The bout served as a TBS main event in Japan on date that is traditional...

Takuma Inoue Returns Against Keita Kurihara; Wants To Join Naoya As World Champ

By Corey Erdman - Back in 2015, it looked as though there was another outlier coming from the Inoue family. Takuma, the younger brother of Naoya, had blazed his way through the first six opponents of his career, and was already fighting in twelve rou...

Nonito Donaire Reflects on Fireworks Fight With Naoya Inoue

The legendary Nonito Donaire opens up on ‘The Monster’ Naoya Inoue and much more as a guest star on Episode 5 of ‘Kalle’s WBSS Hangouts’, a podcast hosted by WBSS Chief Boxing Officer Kalle Sauerland.

Andrew Moloney Drawing More Motivation From Brother's KO Loss To Inoue

LAS VEGAS – Jason Moloney won a fight ESPN televised two days after his twin brother, Andrew, lost his WBA world super flyweight title to Joshua Franco. Now, two weeks after Jason lost to Japanese star Naoya Inoue, Andrew Moloney feels it is his turn...

Arum: Inoue-Casimero Needs Spectators, Won't Happen Without Crowd

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is not bothered by the recent comments from WBO bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero, who says Arum's company was unable to afford a unification clash with WBA, IBF champion Naoya Inoue. The fight was originally scheduled...

Inoue vs. Casimero Unification Very Possible For Early 2021, Says Arum

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes IBF/WBA bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue, believes there is a realistic possibility that his boxer could unify with WBO champion John Riel Casimero in February or March of next year.

Inoue: Oubaali-Donaire Winner For WBC Title, Then Casimero For WBO Are In My Sights

With his Las Vegas debut out of the way and ending in style, Naoya Inoue is ready to move on to more pressing matters in his already incredible career. The unbeaten three-division and reigning unified bantamweight titlist looked sensational in a one-...

Naoya Inoue Breaks Down, Drops, Stops Jason Moloney in Seven

Naoya Inoue lived up to the billing and delivered a ‘Monster’ performance on Halloween. The three-division and reigning unified bantamweight titlist was brilliant in dominating Australia’s Jason Moloney in his Las Vegas debut. Two knockdowns paved th...

Inoue 'Shivers' Thinking Back To Broken Orbital Bone, Double Vision Versus Donaire

Naoya Inoue knew as early as the second round of their fight that he probably wouldn’t be able to knock out Nonito Donaire. That’s when Inoue realized that he had suffered a serious injury, which a doctor determined was a fractured orbital bone aroun...

Moloney: This Is My Destiny; I've Got What It Takes To Beat Inoue

Inoue: Casimero Has One-Punch Knockout Power, But He Has A Lot Of Weaknesses

As long as John Riel Casimero holds the WBO bantamweight title, Naoya Inoue intends to reschedule their fight. Japan’s Inoue and the Philippines’ Casimero were supposed to square off April 25 in Las Vegas, but their 118-pound championship unification...

Moloney: I Will KO Inoue, Come Out As The Next Superstar In The Sport

Jason Moloney had a ringside seat in bearing witness to the fall of one highly rated pound-for-pound entrant. Now, he’s ready to return to that same venue just two weeks later in taking down another. The perennial Top 10 bantamweight contender from K...