The Japanese monster returns to the United States rings with a great goal in mind by 2025

A high -level boxing wenching weekend closes on Sunday, an uninhabitual day for this discipline, with the return to the United States of Naoya inoueone of the occupants of the podium of the best fighting fighters for pound of these times. The Japanese will expose its four titles of the Supergallo Division against Texano Ramón Cárdenas in it T-Mobile Arena of Las Vegas. The evening, which will have Argentine presence, will be transmitted by ESPN 2 from 21.

Twenty -nine consecutive victories since their professional debut a little less than 13 years ago; 26 knockouts, including 10 in a row in the last five years; 24 triumphs in lawsuits with at least one ecumenical title and 10 world crowns have transformed Inoue in a superstar in Japanwhere he made most of his career. This Sunday will be just the fifth time that he will fight outside his country and the fourth that will do so in the United States (The remaining was in Scotland).

His first performance on North American soil was on September 9, 2017, when he retained for the sixth time the supermosca title of the World Boxing Organization knocking the American Antonio Nieves in Carson (California) in the sixth episode. That was the semifondo combat of an evening that had as its main attraction the rematch between the Thai Srisaket sor rungvisai and the Nicaraguan Román González.

His second performance in the United States was in full Covid-19 pandemic: On October 31, 2020, he knocked out in the seventh assault on Australian Jason Moloney In a slander and semi -desert MGM Grand of Las Vegas, product of the limitations for the audience that imposed the virus. That fight, in which the Japanese retained its titles of the Gallo Division of the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation, began the streak of 10 wins by the rapid route that the Monster You will try to extend this Sunday.

The last presentation of the multi -champion on American soil, already with a audience at the Virgin Hotels of Las Vegas theater, was on June 19, 2021: the Filipino was liquidated in the third round Michael Dasmariñas. Since then, 1415 days passed when neither Inoue nor its promoter, the minimum world champion Hideyuki Ohashi (president of Ohashi Promotions), experienced a special need to leave Japan.

The numbers seem to justify that decision. According to a specialized publication report Sporty, The Asian received income at 2024 for 42 million dollarswhich made him The sixth best paid boxer in the worldonly surpassed by Tyson Fury (147 million), Oleksandr USYK (122 million), Saúl Álvarez (73 million), Anthony Joshua (60 million) and Jake Paul (48 million). An unthinkable event for a fighter of its weight and impossible to realize in the United States, a quite refractory territory to girl divisions, but not in Japan. An example of this was the lawsuit between Inoue and the Mexican Luis Nerywhich in May of last year summoned more than 50,000 people at Tokyo Dome.

In spite of that, Inoue, stable as usual, manifested himself delighted with this return to the United States. “It took me four years to return and I would like to do it again sooner rather than later. It’s very important for me, I want to do more fights here,” he said last week during a press conference he gave in Los Angeles before moving to Las Vegas.

This Sunday’s commitment will not be, a priori, the most demanding in the Japanese race. His adversary, who has a record of 26 victories (14 before the limit) and a defeat, chains 14 wins since his only backward, in April 2017 against Danny Flores, but in his curriculum there are no relevant names.

Cárdenas, born 29 years ago in San Antonio and nickname Dynamitewill star in its first World Cup contest, which it agrees as number one of the AMB ranking and as continental Latin America champion of that body. His last presentation was last February 8: he won adjusting for points to the Mexican Bryan Acostawho knocked him down in the seventh assault. Three months later, one of the best fighters on the planet will be in front of a lawsuit in which only a gambler risk taker I could play a coin for him.

Favorite as always, Inoue will face the second commitment of the four that contemplates the ambitious plan that he drew for 2025 with his promoteran uncommon amount for any monarch in these times. The first was the one who beat him for knockout in the fourth assault to South Korean Ye Joon Kim in January in Tokyo.

Giving by sure that Cárdenas will not be a risks, the third commitment of the year is already scheduled for September 13 in Tokyo. On that occasion, the rival will be the Uzbeko Murodjon AkhmadalievAmb’s interim champion, who as a fan was bronze medalist in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games And as a professional he was unified Amb and the FIB of the Supergallo division between 2020 and 2023 (he lost his belts to the Filipino Marlon Tapales).

The confirmation of the September contest was on behalf of Eddie Hearnpromoter of Akhmadaliev. “Finally, the Uzbeko power against the Monster. The best fight of the division, ”wrote the CEO of Matchroom Boxing Thursday on your Twitter account. A few hours later, the Japanese fighter ratified it: “That is definitive: the next fight is in September against MJ (Akhmadaliev).”

If everything develops according to the planned, Inoue, who six months ago signed a sponsorship contract with the general entertainment authority of Saudi Arabia, will fight in December in Riyadh. While there are no certainties on the rival, last week the Japanese mentioned as potential adversaries to the British Nick Ball, Amb feather champion, and his compatriot together with Nakatani, monarch rooster of the World Boxing Council.

In one of the complementary lawsuits of the billboard in the T-Mobile Arena, agreed to 10 rounds in the wélter category, the Santa Fe Fabián Andrés Maidanaa man with experience in high relief and large scenarios, will challenge the undefeated Dominican Rohan Polancowho tries to make their way to a World Cup opportunity.

Maidana, 32 and owner of a record composed of 24 wins and three losses, will make his 14th fight in the United States. The last one was exactly one year ago: on May 4, 2024, he lost by points against Texan Mario Barrios in a duel in which the CMB’s interim title was at stake. After that, the younger brother of the former champion Marcos Chino Maidana linked two wins in Argentina, against Mexican Francisco Mercado and Jesús Rubio.

Polanco, 26, occupies the 10th place in the OMB Welter ranking and 15 ° in the CMB ranks. The fighter born in Los Alcarrizos won his 15 professional contests (10 by fast track) and in his service page records clashes with four Argentine rivals: Gabriel Puñalef Calfín, Jonathan Eniz, Ronan Sánchez and Marcelino López.