{"id":940025,"date":"2026-10-25T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:50:11","slug":"inoue-bam-work-to-finalize-deal-for-tokyo-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940025\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoue, Bam work to finalize deal for Tokyo showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;I&#8217;m working with Matchroom to make it happen,&#8221; John Lewis told <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/\">The Ring<\/a>. &#8220;Both fighters want it.&#8221;<a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/naoya-inoue-3EiWl7niEWkAd2sT8cfQec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inoue<\/a> (33-0, 27 KOs), The Ring&#8217;s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, would defend his undisputed 122-pound titles against pound-for-pound No. 4 Rodriguez sometime in Tokyo in March. <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/jesse-rodriguez-531m1hP2319TmWdJDTCsN5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodriguez<\/a> (24-0, 17 KOs), a three-weight world champion, currently campaigns at 118 pounds but is ready to make another jump up in weight for a superfight with Japanese star Inoue. <\/p>\n<p>Inoue, a four-weight world champ, hasn&#8217;t been in action since beating Junto Nakatani in the biggest fight in Japanese history on May 2 at Tokyo Dome. Rodriguez stopped Antonio Vargas in six rounds, winning the WBA bantamweight title in his first fight at the weight, in June.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m working with Matchroom to make it happen,&#8221; John Lewis told The Ring. &#8220;Both fighters want it.&#8221;Inoue (33-0,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,28241,85,2974],"class_list":["post-940025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-featured-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940025","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=940025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}