TJ Doheny: record, next fight and profile →
Irish southpaw TJ Doheny, who is enjoying a fine run of form is set for an almighty challenge when he takes on undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue on Sept. 3 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.
Scoby will return to the ring against Daniel Lim on Friday at the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. Lim (11-1, 3 KOs), 24, of Deerfield Beach, Florida, by way of the Philippines, was knocked out by undefeated junior welterweight sensation Emiliano Moreno in January – his lone fight in the United States. Since then, he returned in March to post a first-round TKO of JR Magboo.
Murodjon Akhmadaliev is baffled by the events that will likely leave him deprived of landing his WBA mandatory title shot at Japan’s four-division and currently undisputed junior featherweight king Naoya Inoue.
Naoya Inoue doesn’t feel obligated to adhere to a mandatory junior featherweight title assignment because he’s not long for the division, his American promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene on Monday.
Naoya Inoue is rebuffing a WBA order and will instead return to Japan for a September title defense, two officials familiar with the unbeaten fighter’s plans told BoxingScene on Friday.
Former IBF super-bantamweight champion TJ Doheny is experiencing a renaissance, demonstrating that despite his advancing years, the 37-year-old remains a threat within the 122lbs division.
Newly crowned IBF bantamweight champion Ryosuke Nishida won his title in the trenches, with a hard-fought decision over Puerto Rican star Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Nishida’s matchmaker Mike Altamura admitted he had not expected that kind of “warfare.”
Australia-based Irishman TJ Doheny continued staking his claim for a fight with Naoya Inoue with victory in the Tokyo Dome on Monday night. The 37-year-old southpaw scored a fourth-round stoppage of Filipino Bryl Bayagos, who is now 7-1-1, in the show opener, which still took place in front of thousands of fans.
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.
Australia-based Irish southpaw TJ Doheny, 26-4 (20 KOs), kept alive hopes of facing Naoya Inoue by dismantling Bryl Bayogos, 7-0-1 (2 KOs), before overwhelming him in round four.