Naoya Inoue will look to turn into a four-division world champion on Tuesday, because the Japanese famous person challenges Stephen Fulton for his unified super-bantamweight titles.
Inoue, 30, is Indy Sport’s pound-for-pound No 1. The “Monster” is a former light-flyweight champion, a former unified super-flyweight champion, and he lately vacated his undisputed bantamweight belts to transfer up to super-bantamweight.
Fulton, 29, is unbeaten like his opponent right here, and the American will carry the WBC and WBO titles into Tokyo this week, the place Inoue awaits.
Final outing, Inoue toyed with Paul Butler in December earlier than ending the Briton to obtain undisputed standing at bantamweight. In the meantime, Fulton final fought in June, outpointing David Roman to retain his super-bantamweight belts.
Right here’s all you want to know.
When is it?
Inoue vs Fulton will happen on the Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday 25 July.
The primary card is due to start at 9.30am BST (1.30am PT, 3.30am CT, 4.30am ET), with ring walks for the primary occasion anticipated at round 12pm BST (4am PT, 6am CT, 7am ET).
How can I watch it?
Within the UK, the occasion will air live on Sky Sports activities Principal Occasion and Sky Sports activities Motion. Subscribers can even watch the fights on the Sky Go app.
Within the US, ESPN+ will broadcast the occasion live.
Odds
Stephen Fulton forward of his bout with Brandon Figueroa in November
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Inoue – 1/4
Fulton – 16/5
Draw – 16/1
Full card (topic to change)
Stephen Fulton (C) vs Naoya Inoue (WBC and WBO super-bantamweight titles)
Robeisy Ramirez (C) vs Satoshi Shimizu (WBO featherweight title)
Chihiro Iwashita vs Hiroyuki Takahara (super-featherweight)
Kanamu Sakama vs Ryu Horikawa (super-flyweight)
Taiga Imanaga vs Hebi Marapu (light-weight)
Yoshiki Takei vs Ronnie Baldonado (super-bantamweight)
Yuki Kajitani vs Masato Shinoda (super-flyweight)
Kenta Yamakawa vs Ryosuke Nakamura (featherweight)
Takero Kitano vs Kenta Kawakami (featherweight)
