Eddie Hearn Names Shock Fighter He Needs To Face Naoya Inoue

For many individuals, Naoya Inoue is the pound-for-pound primary proper now however that hasn’t stopped Eddie Hearn from naming the person from his Matchroom secure that he want to face ‘The Monster.’

Multi-weight champion and power-punching Japanese boxer Inoue defended his undisputed WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO super-bantamweight world titles in opposition to Mexican Luis Nery this week.

Regardless of going through an early setback along with his first profession knockdown within the opening spherical, he showcased exceptional resilience and, in entrance of a packed crowd of 55,000 on the Tokyo Dome, he rebounded in his attribute model to safe a knockout victory.

After the knockdown and shedding the primary spherical, Inoue dominated from the second spherical onwards, inflicting a number of knockdowns of his personal earlier than lastly delivering a stable left hook that despatched Nery to the canvas for a remaining time within the sixth.

Nearly as quickly as Inoue stopped his man, the subsequent challenger Sam Goodman jumped into the ring and known as him out for an additional defence of his 4 world titles, and now Hearn has thrown a tother identify into the ring.

Chatting with Matchroom, Hearn has now thrown the identify of one in every of his boxers, Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, into the ring.

“In order for you a soundbite might we simply name out Naoya Inoue now at 122lbs. Individuals speak about Inoue going up and preventing [Gervonta] ‘Tank’ Davis. Why can’t ‘Bam’ go up and combat Inoue?

“That’s not received the blessing of [Rodriguez’s coach] Robert Garcia but it surely’s been talked about up to now. ‘Bam’ actually struggled to make weight in opposition to Sunny [Edwards] in his final combat. It’s mad, they have been speaking about him successful titles at 108 as properly, so he now is aware of that flyweight is his division. However he’ll 100% transfer to bantamweight sooner or later, possibly even tremendous bantamweight.”