By Joe Koizumi
Hideyuki Ohashi of Ohashi Promotions has sent an astounding information to us in Japan. “Monster” Naoya Inoue and Ohashi were invited with a presidential airplane to Saudi Arabia and had a very important meeting with Turki Alalshikh there. Riyadh Season made a deal with Inoue and inked a lucrative sponsorship deal of some twenty million USD.
Sir Turki said, “Next year we, Saudi Arabia and Japan, will celebrate the seventieth anniversary since both countries established our diplomatic relationship. With the presence and participation of Mr. Naoya Inoue we would like to stage a big surprising event.”
Does it mean Monster Naoya will fight in Saudi Arabia next year? If so, which has a priority between his title defenses in Las Vegas, in Saudi Arabia and at the Tokyo Dome against unbeaten compatriot Junto Nakatani? Anyway, three times a year. Monster will welcome a very tight schedule next year.
Yet another athlete lured by Saudi money!! First it was professional golfers and now boxing!! Before you know it it’ll be the NBA and/or NFL
That sounds like all of us we want to make as much money as we can at our jobs
Was hoping Joe Koizumi would shed light on this deal whose terms remain uncertain, instead he is asking us questions he should have Ohashi
There are some extremely good fighters out there but he is my #1 lb 4 lb
Awesome news!
It saddens me the amount of money being thrown around in sport , opulence and greed is abundant,,,when there are so many homeless and starving people in the world. .
Here we have some Sheik (being called sir) flying someone over to ask him something . What’s wrong with a phone call? Pride and honour and respect seems to have flown out of the window.
Oh ,I donate when I can, being a pensioner is living frugally.
And yes Monster Inoue is one of the best I’ve seen in the last 50 yrs .
Peace to all.
‘…when there are so many homeless and starving people in the world.’ You know what’s coming next. NAME ONE?
Japan will take more than half Inoue’s $$$.
Bad negotiation. Unless it is for just one fight , but Inoue is work for than that for one fight. $20 milling is not even close to enough. Inoue is better than the much higher paid comps in recent history. The buyer has tremendous wealth and could not bend over to pick up $20M.
What the hell? None of those errors were in there before I clicked send
Should be INOUE IS WORTH MORE THAN THAT FOR ONE FIGHT.
Japan will take more than half Inoue’s $$$. Another reason he should get more than $20 mill
The Japanese Government?