On December 27, on the Mohammed Abdo Enviornment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Naoya Inoue vs Alan Picasso headlined The Ring V: Evening of the Samurai combat card. The occasion noticed Junto Nakatani make his tremendous bantamweight debut, grinding out a troublesome unanimous choice victory over Sebastian Hernandez.
As soon as that combat completed, Inoue-Picasso took centre stage, and Inoue delivered a dominating efficiency, profitable by unanimous choice. Nonetheless, the Monster was not completely satisfied together with his efficiency and gave an sincere evaluation within the post-fight press convention.
Naoya Inoue defeats Alan Picasso in Riyadh
Naoya Inoue (32-0, 27 KOs by no means appeared flustered towards Alan Picasso (32-1-1, 17 KOs).
The benefit of his win was mirrored within the scorecards, which learn 120-108, 119-109, and 117-111.
Inoue shortly acquired into his groove. placing collectively fast, highly effective mixtures. The range from the Monster was most spectacular. Picasso confirmed loads of coronary heart and was defensively strong, however he struggled to cope with the pace of his opponent.
Picasso made it to the ultimate spherical, the place he had his finest moments, however he didn’t have the facility to bother the Japanese fighter. Regardless of Picasso’s finest efforts to color the dream win, Inoue dominated and acquired the win he deserved, retaining his undisputed tremendous bantamweight title.
Inoue offers sincere evaluation of Picasso win
Talking within the post-fight press convention, regardless of the dominating win, the Japanese celebrity was not fully completely satisfied together with his efficiency:
“To be sincere, it’s regrettable. Not assembly these expectations is extraordinarily disappointing. Truthfully, I actually needed to KO him. I feel Picasso’s defence was simply too good. That’s what it comes all the way down to.
“Somewhat than speaking about boxing at present, I really feel my focus wasn’t there. Yeah, I wasn’t in sync with myself. That was the problem. I feel I misplaced focus. Boxing, I needed to do, didn’t match how I really carried out.
“Why issues turned out this fashion is one thing I have to replicate on. I’ll have to rethink my method going ahead,” mentioned Inoue.
What’s subsequent for Naoya Inoue? Will we get the Japanese superfight towards Junto Nakatani?
