It's the next man up mentality for Naoya Inoue. Inoue was set for his third undisputed title defense against Sam Goodman this past December, but Goodman suffered a cut in sparring delayed the bout ...

open image in gallery Naoya Inoue (left ... Luis Nery, who scored a shock, first-round knockdown of Inoue last year, is the only man to have put the Japanese in danger, yet the Mexican touched ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in July 2023, ahead of Naoya Inoue's junior featherweight debut against Stephen Fulton. His opponent, Paul Butler, was in survival mode the ...

Naoya Inoue (29-0, 26 KOs) as expected, blew away the overmatched Ye Joon Kim in his last fight – and attention quickly turned to what was next for “The Monster,” and Keith Idec at The Ring Magazine ...

This wasn’t the opponent Naoya Inoue was supposed to get, and it’s not the man for whom he had been preparing. But the odds say the undisputed junior featherweight champion should have a much ...

There's a popular phrase from the internet meme age in which participants "find out" at the conclusion. The first half of the utterance contains another F-word. Perhaps understandably as he ...

Naoya Inoue, ESPN's No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer, will help usher in the 2025 title fight slate with his third defense of the undisputed 122-pound championship early Friday in Tokyo (ESPN+ ...

Japanese boxer Naoya Inoue will defend his undisputed super bantamweight title for the third time, this time against Korean challenger Ye Joon Kim, on Friday at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo ...

Pound-for-pound superstar Naoya Inoue added another ... Kim's corner told their man he had nothing to lose and he began to open up in round four, catching Inoue with a clipping left hand before ...

Naoya Inoue is ... via Getty Images) With Inoue and his camp unable to reschedule again, moves were made to get the Japanese superstar a new opponent. Kim was the man selected, and the fight ...

Four fights, four titles, four knockout wins. Naoya Inoue has been perfect since moving up to the junior featherweight division in 2023, continuing his now nine-fight knockout streak, while ...