{"id":574330,"date":"2026-05-09T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:19:07","slug":"naoya-inoue-warned-he-will-be-slain-in-japan-by-us-pound-for-pound-star-we-100-want-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574330\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue warned he will be ‘slain’ in Japan by US pound for pound star: “We 100% want the fight”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a career-best win against Junto Nakatani, Naoya Inoue<\/a> is already being linked to a host of names, but he has been warned that he will be \u2018slain\u2019 on home turf if he accepts a clash with one rumoured dance partner.<\/p>\n

Inoue landed the cleaner work in a unanimous decision triumph against \u2018The Big Bang\u2019 earlier this month<\/a>, that being his seventh consecutive defence of the undisputed super-bantamweight title and a victory that will help define his career.<\/p>\n

Whilst talk of a move to featherweight has been rife, Inoue announced beforehand that he plans to remain at 122lbs for one more fight.<\/p>\n

It is beginning to become clear that unified super-flyweight champion Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez is that man<\/a>, and the Texan\u2019s trainer, Robert Garcia, told the Ring<\/a> that he believes his charge will keep up his \u2018legend slayer\u2019 tag if the fight happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cBam is already known as the \u2018Legend Slayer,\u2019 and it doesn\u2019t get any better than Inoue,<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the timing is perfect timing, if they end up fighting early next year. By then, we\u2019ll have a lot of answers at 118, and we\u2019ll have Bam back in the ring, hopefully by October, against another top bantamweight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJesse has the skills to compete against the best in the world, and he wants to fight Inoue \u2026 Inoue is still very fast and powerful, but I think Jesse has the skills, smarts and accuracy as the technical fighter to pull it off. We definitely have all of the skills to beat Inoue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez has expressed his willingness to venture to Inoue\u2019s backyard for the fight, and Saudi powerhouse Turki Alalshikh has confirmed his interest in organising a clash between the pound-for-pound stars in early 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a career-best win against Junto Nakatani, Naoya Inoue is already being linked to a host of names,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574330","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=574330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}