March 8, 2014
W KO
On Tuesday Naoya Inoue became the ninth fighter to unify all four major titles in the era of four championship belts. Now Inoue wants to be the only male fighter to accomplish this feat in two weight divisions.
"Monster" Naoya Inoue (24-0, 21 KOs) unified four bantamweight championship belts by patiently chasing and beating Paul Butler (34-3, 15 KOs), and finally knocked him down with a series of punches and got a stoppage at 1:09 of the eleventh round in the main event of the tournament on Tuesday in Tokyo, Japan.
Naoya Inoue (23-0, 20 KOs) had to make a second run on the scales to meet the bantamweight limit, but in the end the Japanese succeeded, and he showed 53.4 kg for the fight for all four championship titles with Paul Butler (34-2, 15 KOs), who weighed in at 53.5 kg on the first attempt. The broadcast of the main card of the tournament in Tokyo will begin tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. Kyiv time.
Naoya Inoue (23-0, 20 KOs) defeated Nonito Donaire in a return fight in Japanese Saitama and has already won three world titles in the bantamweight division - IBF, WBC and WBA. Now the Japanese is hunting for the WBO world champion Paul Butler (34-2, 15 KOs), who said that negotiations for a fight for all titles are already underway.