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+ ...

Kim, a 32-year-old native of South Korea, filled in on late notice to replace Australia's Sam Goodman, a mandatory challenger ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in July 2023, ahead of Naoya Inoue's junior ... in title fights from 2018 to '19 in Japan, streamed in the early morning hours stateside.

Naoya Inoue is set to head back to the United ... Aside from those three fights and an early knockout of Emmanuel Rodriguez in Glasgow in May 2019, every other contest in ‘The Monster’s ...

MORE: Naoya Inoue vs. Ye Joon Kim undercard: Complete list of fights before main event in 2025 ... to 122 lbs emphatically answered, expect an early night after a couple of rounds of reconnaissance.

Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani acknowledge they want to fight each other ... while sparring for his shot at Inoue’s titles, first early in December and again Jan. 11. That gash initially ...

Naoya Inoue is arguably the best fighter on the ... In any case, be on the lookout for post-fight coverage early on Friday morning. Here is a look at the next set of major boxing events coming ...

It is hoped that he and fellow undefeated Japanese superstar - the reigning WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani - will face off in a mammoth contest at the Tokyo Dome in the future, with Arum ...