{"id":572093,"date":"2026-05-08T01:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:13:16","slug":"who-wins-naoya-inoue-or-bam-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572093\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wins \u2013 Naoya Inoue or Bam Rodriguez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Declan Warrington: On the evidence of the very impressive victory over Nakatani, Inoue. Rodriguez is a remarkable fighter, but Nakatani posed the greater threat to Inoue, who showed that suggestions he is in decline are premature. Like the very finest fighters, Inoue\u2019s best performances come against his most dangerous opponents. Rodriguez is relentless, and perhaps still improving, but would somehow have to be better on his feet on the night than Inoue to make it the type of fight he would win, and that\u2019s one of the biggest challenges of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Warrington: On the evidence of the very impressive victory over Nakatani, Inoue. Rodriguez is a remarkable fighter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[85394,18416,2560,10078,88992,9558,9552,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bam-rodriguez","tag-antonio-vargas","tag-boxing","tag-boxingscene","tag-jesse-rodriguez","tag-junto-nakatani","tag-naoya-inoue","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572093","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=572093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}