By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda
Hideyuki Ohashi of Ohashi Promotions today (Wednesday) has announced a gigantic quadruple world title event at the Tokyo Dome (the capacity of which is 55,000) in Tokyo, Japan, on May 6. The Dome will be used for a boxing event for the first time since the historical upset of Mike Tyson vs. James Buster Doughlas in 1990. The forthcoming title bouts are as follows:
Undisputed super bantamweight title bout
Naoya Inoue (Japan; 26-0, 23 KOs)
vs.
WBC mandatory challenger #1 Luis Nery (Mexico; 35-1, 27 KOs)
WBA bantamweight title bout
Takuma Inoue (Japan; 19-1, 5 KOs)
vs.
WBA mandatory challenger #1 Sho Ishida (Japan; 34-3, 17 KOs)
WBO bantamweight title bout
Jason Moloney (Australia; 27-2, 19 KOs)
vs.
#10 Yoshiki Takei (Japan; 8-0, 8 KOs)
WBA flyweight title bout
Seigo Yuri Akui (Japan; 19-2-1, 11 KOs)
vs.
#3 Taku Kuwahara (Japan; 13-1, 8 KOs)
“Monster” Naoya and Luis “Pantera” Nery were both in attendance at the press conference before a great many press people at Tokyo Dome Hotel.
Naoya said, “It is my great pleasure to fight the strongest challenger Luis Nery at such a gigantic show at the Tokyo Dome.”
Nery said, “At first I would like to apologize for my previous mistake in making weight against Shinsuke Yamanaka in 2018. Given such a great opportunity to fight “Monster” Inoue, I wish to show my strength and win the belts from him.”
Questioned on their respective rival, Naoya said, “Nery is a hard-punching, aggressive and durable boxer, so I wish to train hard to defeat this tough opposition.”
Nery said, “Naoya is a very fast, talented and strong champion. But I have no fear but my respect and fighting spirit to him.”
Questioned what this bout means to each of them, Inoue replied, “This is my most motivated fight in my career since I see Nery as a very dangerous challenger.”
Nery said, “I’m also very greatly motivated to fight him. It’s my honor to exchange gloves with such a great champion as Inoue.”
Asked what fight will be expected, Inoue said, “I wish to be victorious with Nery doing nothing against me.”
Nery said, “It will be a good fight. I’ll show my best performance and will show I’m one of the best Mexican boxers in history.”
Asked about Nery’s previous weight scandal and suspension (though lately revoked by the JBC), Inoue said, “I don’t reflect the past on Nery. I’ll simply concentrate on fighting.”
Nery said, “I’ll also concentrate on fighting Inoue in this confrontation.”
It will be shown live by Amazon Prime Video in Japan and by ESPN+ in US.
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Four world championship fights on the same card. This should be a lot of fun.
Japan has class. They do not tolerate Ryan Garcia and OTHERS who do not know how to behave.
Innou’s gonna destroy Nery easy!
I hope Innou wins and shaves that BEARD OFF Nery !!! The beard has got to GO !
Another condition that should have been given to Nery in order to fight in Japan:No beard
Oh man! Nery is going to get blasted in 4 rounds at the most!
Pantera is a great fighter and with his style and Inoue power this might be the retirement for pantera nery
But I don’t know there is an enigma in the Mexican boxing that have made Mexico the country with the biggest upsets in boxing history
I hope pantera join to this list :
Salido – lomachenko
Barrera-hamed
Morales-Pacquiao
Canelo -ggg
Márquez-katsidis
Magdaleno-donaire
González- Dariuz michaevlovzky
Veneno rubio-David lemiux
Andy Ruiz-Anthony Joshua
Sal Sánchez-Wilfredo Gómez
Zamora -Eusebio Pedroza
Vaquero Navarrete-Isaac dignos
Lara-warrington
Venado-conlan
Lara -Leigh wood
Jose Luis Ramirez -Pernell Whitaker
Miky-Adrian brooner
Rafa Marquez-Tim Austin
Bandido Vargas -takashi miura
Bazán-Johnson
Salgado -Jorge Linares
Vargas-magsayo
Espadas – tajada
Sánchez -shibata
José Félix – Gary fully
Etc etc etc
I think Inoue will win but pantera will give better fight than Fulton and tápales and I have to recognize that the strongest fighter of 122 is tápales
But again you never know with the Mexican boxing mistery………
.vamos nery tu puedesssssss!!!!!!
Good list definitely all good fights. Much respect to Mexico an Mexican fighters they come to fight, but without even researching I can see at least 3 fights on your list where where the MX fighter was actually the favorite. Also some of the fighters you mentioned were born in the U.S. On a different note, I lived in Tijuana for a few years and still go there some weekends it’s a tuff, hard place and crazy place. Pantera is from there and will need to summon all that toughness and craziness in order to win. Stranger things have happened.
Yea you’re right, not all of them were underdog, but even so they were a good victories for Mexico
And there are lot lot lot more I just can’t remember all of them
Like the victories we got against the legendary, classic and immortals henry Armstrong , sugar ray Robinson and exzard Charles
There were not titles on the line but is a pride to have beat such a great boxers
One Mexican also beat the great Alexis Argüello but with no title on the line
Carlos, Vilomar Fernandez was from the Dominican Republic.
Carlos doesn’t know nearly as much (about boxing) as he thinks he does. What a fool.
Im talking about Jorge Reyes not vilomar Fernández
You got it wrong.
Jorge Reyes was gettin a beating from Arguello, and Arguello’s corner stop the fight because his left hand was broken. It took several surgeries and months for him to resume his boxing career, and this happened at the beginning of his journey in boxing, when he was unknown at the international level. Really you pretend to know boxing Carlos, but you don’t
Imagine if I talked about robberies??? I know you won’t like it
Exactly, I don’t entertain him anymore
So why did Ryan Garcia get this memo. Didn’t he just pull out…again
Marquez was the favorite to defeat Katsidis, Zamora was the absolute favorite against Pedroza, same Sanchez vs Kuniaki Shibata, and same with Mickey Garcia against Broner, and there is no such fighter named Tajada. Write when you sober Carlos
Pedroza was favorite over Zamora
Shibata was favorite over Sanchez
And is not tajada is jiro takada who was favorite over guty espadas sr not guty espadas junior
You know nothing about it Carlos. Alfonso Zamora was a monster bantamweight, unstoppable until he fought Zarate and Pedroza was just a prospect when he fought Zamora. Clemente Sanchez was the mandatory for Shibata and the Japanese were afraid of him and paid money aside two times to let Shibata make two defenses and everybody know that he will ko shibata
Zamora was a hard hitter but Pedroza was favorite over Zamora
And the reason Sanchez and espadas were underdogs was because they had to travel to Japan and you have to ko them out in order to win over there
You can hardly get a decicion in Japan unless it was very very clear
Vaquero Navarrete vs issac dogboe (no dignos)
Inoue did not impresssed me because he beat Fulton and tápales
He impressed me because the way he beat them
By sweeping ko
Ko to tápales is not easy tapiales is very strong
Ko to Fulton is not easy he has great boxing defense/skills
Very good card, I wonder what version of Nery we will see, and how long it will take for him to succumb o el Monster Inoue.
Inoue take the W by TKO/KO 6
One of the most satisfactory and sweet Victories of Mexico was Salvador Sanchez vs hard hitter wilfrefo Gomez
Gomez was 2.5 favorite over Sanchez
Sanchez jump to the stardom with this unexpected victory
Gomez was the el coco” of mexicans
Any Mexican could stop Gomez until and Sanchez and his big lungs arouse
Orlando salido vs Juanma Lopez was also a great and unexpected victory for Mexico
Good to see Japan boxing in such a good place.
Japan it’s been always great in boxing but the flaw is that they are small fighters …just like Mexicans
Note:
It’s not about gambling numbers is about of when nobody believe in Mexicans to bring the belt in certain fight like espadas vs takada in Japan
Now in the same night same arena Rafa Marquez beat olímpic medal Tim Austin and Juan pollo “ Valenzuela beat olímpic medal Ricardo Williams jr
And they both underdog in the casino
Leo Santa Cruz vs Carl Frampton and frampton was undefeated
Zamora later lost against another hard hitter Carlos Zárate
Zamora father jump into the ring trying to hit Zárate
Then Zárate move to 122 to lose against Gomez
Miguel canto vs berilio Gonzalez another great victory for Mexico
And many more like abner mates vs Anselmo Moreno and Martin Castillo vs Eric morel
Etc etc etc
Nery will catch a shot to the body for an Inoue victory (TKO 5). Nery will give it a bold try, though. We will see how Nery’s weight looks on the fight date (at the bell).
yawn…Japan in four
Let’s go Inoue!