{"id":361824,"date":"2025-12-21T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:35:11","slug":"naoya-inoues-debut-in-saudi-arabia-raises-hopes-for-an-all-japan-superfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361824\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue&#8217;s debut in Saudi Arabia raises hopes for an all-Japan &#8216;superfight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Kingdom has been investing heavily in sports as part of push to overhaul image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20251219 Naoya Inoue\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese boxing star Naoya Inoue trains in\u00a0Yokohama on\u00a0Dec. 14. He will be competing in Saudi Arabia later in the month. \u00a9 Kyodo<\/p>\n<p>DAISUKE SUGIURA<\/p>\n<p>December 21, 2025 09:11 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK &#8212; A major boxing event, &#8220;The Ring V: Night of the Samurai,&#8221; is scheduled for Dec. 27 and is expected to enhance the visibility of Riyadh Season and Saudi Arabian boxing among Japanese audiences. Several prominent Japanese boxers &#8212; including Naoya Inoue, Junto Nakatani, Kenshiro Teraji, and Taiga Imanaga &#8212; will compete in Riyadh, the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Kingdom has been investing heavily in sports as part of push to overhaul image Japanese boxing star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[197094,197093,23136,186686,64,63,802,41286,137117,197092,194450,56956,5251,85],"class_list":["post-361824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-superfight","tag-all-japan","tag-an","tag-arabia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-debut","tag-hopes","tag-inoues","tag-naoya","tag-raises","tag-saudi","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}