“The Monster” in his lair!
Naoya “The Monster” Inoue will make the second defense of his undisputed super bantamweight crown against former world champion TJ Doheny on Tuesday, September 3rd, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs), a four-division world champion and considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters, has made Ariake Arena his boxing home in recent years.
It is the place where he knocked out Paul Butler to win the undisputed world bantamweight title in December 2022, stopped then-unified super bantamweight champion Stephen Fulton in July 2023 and dominated Marlon Tapales for 10 rounds last December to become the undisputed super bantamweight king.
Doheny (26-4, 20 KOs) is 4-0 when fighting on Japanese soil, including a May knockout of Bryl Bayogos on the Inoue-Luis Nery preliminary card at the Tokyo Dome.
Naoya showed he is in excellent condition in a workout open to the media.
This fight will be broadcast live and exclusively in the US on ESPN+ beginning at 2:30 a.m. ET.
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