Without facing opposition, Naoya Inoue battles back to take the junior featherweight title.
In a remarkable turnaround, Naoya Inoue bounced back from a first-round knockdown, ultimately securing victory over Luis Nery in their junior featherweight title bout. The match, held at Tokyo Dome and attended by over 44,000 spectators, echoed the historic Tyson-Douglas bout of 1990 in terms of surprise. After Nery’s unexpected early success, Inoue, nicknamed “The…