{"id":249339,"date":"2025-11-07T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249339\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:07:09","slug":"naoya-inoue-junto-nakatani-dominates-the-night-of-the-samurai-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249339\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue-Junto Nakatani dominates The Night of the Samurai agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Inoue \u2013 like Nakatani 31-0; his 27 knockouts give him three more than his rival \u2013 is on the verge of fighting for the fourth time in under 12 months, maintaining his long-term status of being not only the world\u2019s third finest active fighter, but the busiest of the elite. At 32 he has demonstrated signs of decline \u2013 the aggressive Ramon Cardenas, particularly, exposed that when dropping him during May\u2019s entertaining shootout in Las Vegas \u2013 so even if he is unwilling to recognise that his very best may be behind him, as a professional who won his first title at 108lbs he is aware of the risk posed by those who are more naturally suited to his fighting weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inoue \u2013 like Nakatani 31-0; his 27 knockouts give him three more than his rival \u2013 is on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,10078,9558,9552,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-249339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxingscene","10":"tag-junto-nakatani","11":"tag-naoya-inoue","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}