Not too long ago, The Ring’s Tom Gray insisted that Japan is a boxing hotbed beyond anyone’s imagination here in States.<\/p>\n
By the looks for it, he didn’t exaggerate.<\/p>\n
In the November issue <\/a>that hits newsstands Tuesday, he not only writes about it \u2014 he shows it (Find your local B&N to pick up your copy here<\/a>).Tom went to Nagoya for Nayoa Inoue’s undisputed 122-pound title defense in September when he boxed the ears off Murodjon Akhmadaliev<\/a> for a unanimous decision. <\/p>\n He actually met Akhmadaliev for a sit-down interview before the fight and was asked who he picked to win. That can be awkward for some, but not professionals. It’s nothing personal. Tom picked Inoue. <\/p>\n Because of the 16-hour time difference with Las Vegas, this card overlapped with Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford<\/a>. It was a whirlwind weekend, and puts in perspective what the job is \u2014 no, we don’t just sit there, watch fights and go home.<\/p>\n It can be extremely chaotic, unpredictable, horrible and beautiful all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not too long ago, The Ring’s Tom Gray insisted that Japan is a boxing hotbed beyond anyone’s imagination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":{"0":"post-260991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-ca","21":"tag-canada","22":"tag-disqualification","23":"tag-draw","24":"tag-fight","25":"tag-fighter","26":"tag-fighter-news","27":"tag-knockout","28":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","29":"tag-ring","30":"tag-ring-magazine","31":"tag-split-decision","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-technical-knockout","34":"tag-the-ring","35":"tag-top-fighters","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And it also was during this time Tom learned of Ricky Hatton’s death.<\/a><\/p>\n