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Hey and welcome to the undisputed tremendous bantamweight championship combat between Naoya Inoue and TJ Doheny. The unbeaten four-weight Japanese champion often called the Monster is again in motion right now on the waterfront Ariake Area right now within the Tokyo suburbs in protection of his WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO title belts at 122lbs, the division the place he’s managed to unify all 4 main belts in solely two fights after doing the identical at 118lbs.
That’s been sufficient within the evaluation of many to make Inoue the world’s No 1 pound-for-pound fighter. Standing in his approach is the Irish southpaw Doheny, who 5 years in the past held the IBF strap that Inoue holds right now. However the 37-year-old challenger, a well-recognized face in Japan, is a large underdog regardless of coming off three straight TKO victories in Japan getting into right now’s predominant occasion.
The ultimate preliminary bout, a scheduled 12-round combat between Yoshiki Takei and Daigo Higa for Takei’s WBO bantamweight title, is about to begin. Then Inoue and Doheny will make their ringwalks.
Bryan will probably be right here shortly.
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