Kenshiro Teraji doesn’t have to look very far to find the motivation to advance his own career. The lineal and unified WBC/WBA junior flyweight champion is generally viewed as among the best fighters in the world, though just outside the top ten of m...
Luis Alberto “Venado” Lopez (26-3) is counting down the days until his September 15th showdown against Joet Gonzalez at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Lopez’s IBF featherweight title will be at stake in the ESPN televised headline...
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Marlon Tapales, the unified WBA/IBF super bantamweight world champion, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to commence his training camp in preparation for a potential undisputed showdown against WBC/WBO super bantamweight champion Nao...
Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford and Claressa Shields are currently the only two fighters to fully unify two weight divisions in the four-belt era. Naoya Inoue not only plans to join that short list but accomplish the feat in considerably less time.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - You can always count on the old guys. The purists. The traditionalists. The types who suggest boxing would be made great again if we could simply return a few generations back to the time when fighters were in it for the fans an...
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As if Naoya Inoue wasn’t already in rarefied circles, promoter Bob Arum suspects the Japanese dynamo may be even better than one of his former distinguished clients. The 91-year-old founder of Top Rank Inc. was effusive in his praise for Inoue, in th...
Even Floyd Mayweather has been forced to take notice of what Naoya Inoue has been doing as of late. The Japanese star has gone from weight class to weight class dominating the best of the very best. After pilfering every world title at 118 pounds, he...
Manny Pacquiao apparently sees a lot of himself in Naoya Inoue. To the point that the eight-division champion and former senator of the Philippines wants to help what many feel today is the world’s greatest fighter.
Five weight classes in, and Naoya Inoue hasn’t found a single fighter that can push him to his physical limits. After taking care of business in the bantamweight division, Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs) looked around despondently. There was simply nothing more...
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Stephen Fulton was up against it. Naoya Inoue seemed like a force of nature on paper, one that was quickly arriving in the super bantamweight division. The moment he walked through those doors at 122 pounds, however, Fulton barricaded his path. His W...
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LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford considered himself the best boxer, pound-for-pound, in the sport prior to his legendary destruction of Errol Spence Jr. The three-weight world champion contended that there shouldn’t be any doubt about it after his career...
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