{"id":755370,"date":"2026-06-23T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:01:11","slug":"inoues-promoter-confirms-big-fight-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755370\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoue&#8217;s Promoter Confirms &#8216;Big Fight&#8217; In Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/naoya-inoue\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naoya Inoue<\/a>&#8216;s next big fight is already in motion \u2014 and the timing points directly at Jesse Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue&#8217;s promoter Hideyuki Ohashi revealed this week that a significant bout is locked in for February 2027, with another high-profile occasion at an &#8220;extraordinary place&#8221; to follow shortly after. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s the December matchmaking we&#8217;re working on right now. Then next February, if I say there&#8217;s a big fight, you&#8217;ll probably know what I&#8217;m talking about. That&#8217;s already in motion. After that, we&#8217;ll do another one in an extraordinary place,&#8221; Ohashi said<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez stopped Antonio Vargas last month to claim the WBA <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bantamweight<\/a> title, becoming a three-division world champion at 26 and immediately calling for the Inoue fight in his post-victory interview. <\/p>\n<p>The pieces align. Rodriguez fights once more at bantamweight, likely in the autumn. Inoue handles his December matchmaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/super-bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">super bantamweight<\/a>. The two unbeaten champions \u2014 one the undisputed king of 122, the other a three-division titleholder fresh off a statement performance \u2014 meet in February 2027 for what would be one of the most anticipated fights in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;extraordinary place&#8221; mentioned for the fight after February adds intrigue beyond the opponent question. Inoue has fought in Japan, Las Vegas, and at the Sphere \u2014 a promoter using that phrase unprompted is either describing a venue already secured or one advanced enough in discussions to warrant the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue&#8216;s next big fight is already in motion \u2014 and the timing points directly at Jesse Rodriguez.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-755370","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\/755370","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=755370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}