Naoya Inoue placed on one other memorable efficiency at Koto Ku’s Ariake Enviornment and proved he’s nonetheless probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighters on this planet immediately by scoring a technical knockout over TJ Doheny on Tuesday to retain his World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) tremendous bantamweight belt, along with the IBF, WBO and WBC variations.
The Japanese had one other nice evening at house and dominated a lot of the battle because of his capacity to chop off the ring and connect with each the Irishman’s physique and face to cruise to victory, which got here within the seventh spherical.
Though the challenger was courageous and got here out able to go toe-to-toe with the champion, his probabilities had been diminishing minute by minute resulting from his bodily fatigue and the punishment he was taking.
The sixth spherical was key for Inoue, who actually harm Doheny close to the top and despatched him visibly broken to his nook. When he got here out for the seventh spherical, he appeared limp and when he took a mix to the midsection he was paralysed and needed to retire as his legs had been unresponsive resulting from an harm brought on by the punches.
Inoue stays on the prime of the game and earned his twenty eighth win and twenty fifth knockout victory, whereas Doheny’s document stands at 26 wins, 5 losses and 20 knockouts.
