By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda
This title is a parody of the masterpiece movie “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” starring James Stewart in 1939. “Monster” Naoya Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs), the unified world super bantamweight champion, has left for New York in order to attend the award-giving ceremony of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). Naoya was named the BWAA’s Boxer of the Year and will receive the prestigious Sugar Ray Robinson Award there on this coming Friday. The Monster will be accompanied by his manager/promoter Hideyuki Ohashi, former WBC/WBA world minimumweight champ. Congrats.
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He has earned every bit of his nickname “Monster.” Hopefully this is a precursor that he will eventually make his U.S. debut.
he has fought in Las Vegas twice and at the stubhub center so i wouldn’t call it a US debut.
He already came 3 times in the USA and he went to UK once.
You’re absolutely right, that was my bad. I’m guess I’m just a greedy American. I want him back for a 4th time lol.
Boxing Records in World Championship Fights: (Last update May 30th, 2024)
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr 31-4-2-22 KOs
“El Huracan” Omar Andres Narvaez 28-3-1-12 KOs
Joe Louis 26-1-0-22 KOs
Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr 26-0-0-10 KOs
Dariusz “Tiger” Michaelczewski 25-2-0-20 KOs
Ricardo “Finito” Lopez 25-0-1-19 KOs
“Dr. Steelhammer” Wladimir Klitschko 25-4-0-19 KOs
“The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya 24-5-0-17 KOs
Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins 24-5-2-13 KOs
Virgil “Quicksilver” Hill 24-5-0-7 KOs
Roy Jones Jr 23-3-0-14 KOs
Kazuto Ioka 23-2-1-11 KOs
Naoya “Monster” Inoue 22-0-0-20 KOs
Gennady “GGG” Golovkin 22-2-1-20 KOs
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez 22-2-1-11 KOs
“The Greatest” Muhammad Ali 22-3-0-14 KOs
Joe Calzaghe 22-0-0-11 KOs
Sven Ottke 22-0-0-5 KOs
Marco Antonio Barrera 21-4-0-12 KOs
Felix “Tito” Trinidad 20-1-0-16 KOs
Miguel Angel Cotto 20-6-0-16 KOs
Larry Holmes 20-5-0-14 KOs
Alexis Arguello 19-3-0-17 KOs
Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao 19-5-2-9 KOs
Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker 19-3-1-4 KOs
Terence “Bud” Crawford 18-0-0-15 KOs
“The Professor” Azumah Nelson 18-4-2-12 KOs
Erik “El Terrible” Morales 18-5-0-11 KOs
“The Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire 17-6-0-12 KOs
Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez 17-4-0-10 KOs
Johnny “Mi Vida Loca” Tapia 17-1-1-6 KOs
“Simply The Best” Chris Eubank Sr 17-5-2-5 KOs
“Prince” Naseem Hamed 16-1-0-14 KOs
“Hands of Stone” Roberto Duran 16-6-0-13 KOs
Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield 16-7-2-9 KOs
“El Terremoto” Leo Santa Cruz 16-2-0-7 KOs
Michael Moorer 15-2-0-12 KOs
Kostya Tszyu 15-2-0-12 KOs
“Dr. Ironfist” Vitali Klitschko 15-2-0-12 KOs
“Sugar” Shane Mosley 15-7-0-12 KOs
Carlos “Escopeta” Monzon 15-0-0-10 KOs
“Sir” Lennox Lewis 15-2-1-10 KOs
“Manitas De Piedra” Michael Carbajal 15-3-0-10 KOs
Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko 14-3-0-10 KOs
Michael Spinks 14-1-0-9 KOs
Thomas “Hitman” Hearns 14-4-1-9 KOs
Jorge “Travieso” Arce 14-6-0-9 KOs
Daniel Zaragoza 14-5-3-5 KOs
“Marvelous” Marvin Hagler 13-1-1-12 KOs
Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev: 13-4-0-10 KOs
Mike “Bodysnatcher” McCallum 13-3-1-8 KOs
“Kaiyanghada” Chayaphon Moonsri 13-3-0-5 KOs
Gervonta “Tank” Davis 12-0-0-11 KOs
“Iron” Mike Tyson 12-4-0-10 KOs
Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson 12-1-0-6 KOs
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor 11-0-0-9 KOs
Zab “Super” Judah 11-8-0-9 KOs
Jorge Linares 11-4-0-7 KOs
Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara 11-1-1-6 KOs
“El Gallo” Juan Francisco Estrada 11-2-0-6 KOs
Oleksandr Usyk 11-0-0-4 KOs
Ronald “Winky” Wright 11-3-1-3 KOs
Dmitry Bivol 11-0-0-2 KOs
“The Bronze Bomber” Deontay Wilder 10-2-1-9 KOs
“Sugar” Ray Leonard 10-2-1-8 KOs
“Le Tombeur” Lucian Bute 10-2-1-7 KOs
“Viking Warrior” Mikkel Kessler 10-3-0-7 KOs
Antonio Margarito 10-5-0-7 KOs
Kosei Tanaka 10-1-0-5 KOs
James “Lights Out” Toney: 10-1-2-5 KOs
Carl “The Cobra” Froch: 10-2-0-5 KOs
Artur Beterbiev 9-0-0-9 KOs
Adonis “Superman” Stevenson 9-1-1-7 KOs
Anthony Joshua 9-3-0-7 KOs
“Quadro Alas” John Riel Casimero 9-2-0-6 KOs
Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez 9-1-1-5 KOs
Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux 9-2-0-5 KOs
Fabrice Tiozzo 9-2-0-5 KOs
Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade 9-1-0-4 KOs
Oscar Valdez 9-2-0-4 KOs
Daniel Santos 9-3-0-4 KOs
Andre “SOG” Ward 9-0-0-3 KOs
Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez 9-5-1-3 KOs
Hector “Macho” Camacho 9-4-0-2 KOs
Adrian “The Problem” Broner 8-3-0-7 KOs
Jermall Charlo 8-0-0-4 KOs
Wilfred Benitez 8-2-0-2 KOs
“The Dream” Devin Haney 8-1-0-0 KOs
Rocky “The Brockton Blockbuster” Marciano 7-0-0-6 KOs
Vassiliy “The Tiger” Jirov 7-1-0-6 KOs
Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt 7-1-0-6 KOs
Jermell Charlo 7-2-1-6 KOs
Ike “Bazooka” Quartey 7-2-1-6 KOs
“Ferocious” Fernando Vargas 7-2-0-5 KOs
Errol Spence Jr 7-1-0-4 KOs
Arturo “Thunder” Gatti 7-2-0-4 KOs
Mikey Garcia 7-1-0-2 KOs
“Swift” Danny Garcia 7-3-0-2 KOs
“Superb” Billy Joe Saunders 7-1-0-1 KOs
“Miracle Man” Daniel Jacobs 6-3-0-5 KOs
“Mr.” Gary Russell Jr 6-2-0-4 KOs
Orlando Salido 6-5-2-4 KOs
Jaime Munguia 6-1-0-3 KOs
Kell “Special K” Brook 6-3-0-3 KOs
Jose Luis Castillo 6-3-1-3 KOs
“King Khan” Amir Khan 6-4-0-3 KOs
Vernon “The Viper” Forrest 6-3-0-1 KOs
Tyson Fury 5-1-1-4 KOs
Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters 5-1-0-4 KOs
“Big” George Foreman 5-3-0-4 KOs
“Kid Dynamite” Danny Romero Jr 5-3-0-4 KOs
Tracy Harris Patterson 5-3-1-3 KOs
“Sugar” Shakur Stevenson 5-0-0-1 KOs
Man, that was a lot of research, I give you an A plus for effort and A plus for just writing all of that.
Monster earned it.
Every boxer who enters the chambers of truth earns everything they accomplish.
Pingaaaaaa! That’s a lot of writting, lots of research hours on google!!! But, well done and well put togheter content!