{"id":669049,"date":"2026-05-14T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:14:15","slug":"inoues-father-trainer-wants-him-to-consider-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669049\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoue\u2019s Father\/Trainer Wants Him To Consider Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

After guiding his son to the biggest win of his career on May 2 against Junto Nakatani<\/a> at Tokyo Dome, Naoya not only climbed to the No. 1 spot in The Ring\u2019s pound-for-pound rankings<\/a> but also defended his undisputed 122-pound throne. <\/p>\n

Additionally, their fight was a huge financial success. With a reported gate of $32 million, it cracked the top four in boxing history. Only Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor and Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford raked in more ticket revenue.<\/p>\n

Considering all that his son has achieved, Shingo would prefer to see him walk away while he’s on top of the boxing world. Inoue (33-0, 27 KOs) is 33.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many more fights does he need to have? It\u2019s about time he retire already,\u201d Shingo said to Yahoo! Japan News. \u201cHe can walk away cleanly while he\u2019s still a legend and at his best. I haven\u2019t talked to him directly about it, but honestly, how many more fights does he need? It\u2019s enough already. He can retire suddenly while still a legend and while he\u2019s still great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Retirement, however, isn\u2019t in the immediate plans. Inoue has discussed the possibility of moving up to featherweight.<\/p>\n

Before he makes that decision, however, he’s having discussions to take on another pound-for-pound star in Jesse \u201cBam\u201d Rodriguez<\/a>.As reported by The Ring<\/a>, preliminary talks are being held between the camps with a target date of January in Japan.Rodriguez, ranked No. 4 pound-for-pound by The Ring<\/a>, owns The Ring, WBA, WBC and WBO 115-pound titles. The San Antonio native will move up to 118 pounds to fight WBA bantamweight titlist Antonio Vargas on June 13<\/a> at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After guiding his son to the biggest win of his career on May 2 against Junto Nakatani at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[72640,703,184736,711,49,48,24361,82,1134],"class_list":["post-669049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-featured-news","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669049","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=669049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}