The boxing world has had its say on Naoya Inoue defeating Nakatani in boxing results today in their epic battle of the East in boxing.
We have a new pound for pound number one today in world boxing.
That’s Naoya Inoue.
He defeated his long time fellow Japanese multi-weight division world champion rival Junto Nakatani impressively via unanimous points decision.
Nakatani was moving up but Inoue did well for the UD.
Here’s some of the reaction:
Here’s the round up from the fight:
- Result: Naoya Inoue beat Junto Nakatani by unanimous decision at Tokyo Dome
- Scores: Judges had it 116-112, 115-113, 116-112.
- Titles: Inoue retained his Ring + undisputed super bantamweight/WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO belts.
- Records: Inoue moves to 33-0 (27 KOs), Nakatani takes first loss to fall to 32-1.
- Crowd: Sold-out Tokyo Dome with ∼55,000 fans — what a night for Japan.
- Fight notes: Technical first half led by Inoue’s jab; Nakatani rallied rounds 6-10; headbutt cut Nakatani’s left eye in 10th.
- Finish: Inoue dominated round 11 with uppercuts and closed strong in 12th.
- Quote: Inoue post-fight: “I would like to show some appreciation for Junto… I did everything to get the win”.
Nice to see the class from Inoue after the fight in his words above for his rival Nakatani as well.
Nakatani did well considering his was moving up in weight as well.
Good fight by all accounts.
Inoue for us goes in now to number one in the pound for pound rankings.
