{"id":606204,"date":"2026-04-15T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606204\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:04:07","slug":"terence-crawford-wants-naoya-inoue-to-test-himself-against-us-pound-for-pound-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606204\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford wants Naoya Inoue to test himself against US pound for pound star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now retired, Terence Crawford has a number of big fights he wants to watch as a fan, one of which includes Naoya Inoue.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue has won titles in four weight divisions so far, but has notably dominated at both bantamweight and super-bantamweight, where he became one of the three multi-divisional undisputed world champions of the four-belt era.<\/p>\n<p>Now, \u2018The Monster\u2019 is set for his toughest test to date, tasked with countryman and fellow pound-for-pound star, Junto Nakatani, who has also maintained his undefeated record whilst claiming world honours in three weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst fans are eager for Inoue to move up to featherweight following his clash with Nakatani, the 32-year-old has revealed plans to remain at 122lbs for one more fight after his domestic dust-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/inoue-teases-major-fight-after-nakatani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speculation on who Japan\u2019s premier force may have in mind for his final super-bantamweight outing has begun<\/a>, particularly considering he has more-or-less cleaned out the division in his three years at the weight.<\/p>\n<p>However, Terence Crawford will be hoping that Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez will be the target, having told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/danipirrello__\/reel\/DWyTVcuEeHR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dani Pirrello<\/a> that he would love to see that fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to see \u2018Bam\u2019 [Jesse Rodriguez] versus [Naoya] Inoue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez looks set to take on Antonio Vargas upon his bantamweight debut in June, as the unified super-flyweight world champion moves one division closer to Inoue, potentially teeing up another blockbuster showdown for boxing\u2019s much-debated pound-for-pound king.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bam\u2019 and trainer Robert Garcia have expressed interest in jumping up further to face Inoue, and the match-up has all the ingredients to warrant the interest of boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh, who works with both men.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now retired, Terence Crawford has a number of big fights he wants to watch as a fan, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-606204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606204","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=606204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}