Inoue Vs Nery: Naoya Inoue suffered the first knockdown of his illustrious career in the opening round but rebounded to floor Luis Nery three times en route to a Round 6 KO victory to retain his undisputed junior featherweight championship on Monday in Tokyo.
There were 44,000-plus on hand for the first boxing event at the famed Tokyo Dome since the Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas heavyweight title shocker in February 1990. And those fans witnessed another surprise when Mexico’s Nery dropped the Japanese star with a counter right hand in Round 1.
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Punch Stats
| PUNCHES | INOUE | NERY |
|---|---|---|
| Total landed | 107 | 54 |
| Total thrown | 239 | 194 |
| Percent | 45% | 28% |
| Jabs landed | 45 | 20 |
| Jabs thrown | 112 | 70 |
| Percent | 40% | 29% |
| Power landed | 62 | 34 |
| Power thrown | 127 | 124 |
| Percent | 49% | 27% |
Inoue Vs Nery Fight News
Japan’s undisputed super bantamweight world champion, Naoya Inoue, has survived an early scare to stop Mexico’s Luis Nery in the sixth round at the Tokyo Dome and defend his titles.
Fans at the famous venue, which seats more than 45,000 people, were stunned on Monday when Nery floored the unbeaten “Monster” in the first round with a huge left.
But Inoue got up and knocked his Mexican opponent down in the following round and sent him to the canvas again in the fifth before finishing him off with a right hook in the sixth.
“It was a great feeling to knock him down, but how about that surprise in the first round?” the 31-year-old Inoue asked. (Inoue Vs Nery)
“As a boxer, when that happens to you, it fires you up. It gave me a lot of energy.”
It was the first boxing event to be held at the Tokyo Dome since 42-1 underdog James “Buster” Douglas knocked out unbeaten heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in February 1990 in one of the sport’s biggest upsets. (Inoue Vs Nery)
“There was a lot of pressure on me as the main event in the first boxing at Tokyo Dome in 34 years, but it gave me strength,” Inoue said.
Inoue took his record to 27-0 with 24 wins by knockout.
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It was his first fight since becoming the undisputed super bantamweight world champion in December. (Inoue Vs Nery)
He is just the second man to become undisputed world champion at two different weights since the four-belt era began in 2004. American Terence Crawford was the first.
Nery, a former two-division world champion, was fighting in Japan for the first time since he was stripped of his bantamweight world title in 2018 after failing to make weight for a bout there.
He was subsequently banned from fighting in Japan, but the country’s Boxing Commission gave him the green light to compete against Inoue.
Nery was booed when he was introduced to the Tokyo Dome crowd.
The 29-year-old’s record fell to 35-2 with 27 KOs.
Inoue was fighting at super bantamweight for only the third time after beating American Stephen Fulton and Marlon Tapales of the Philippines last year for a clean sweep of the titles.
He moved up in weight class after becoming the first undisputed bantamweight world champion since Panama’s Enrique Pinder in 1972.
Earlier, fighting on the undercard, Japan’s Yoshiki Takei beat Australian defending champion Jason Moloney by unanimous decision to win the WBO bantamweight world title.
Takei started strongly before Moloney came back into the bout in his second title defence.
But the Japanese fighter, a former kickboxer who had won all eight of his previous boxing matches by knockout, took the title in front of a raucous crowd .