WBSS Champion Naoya Inoue One Dawn Conference “Proving the Strongest” November 8, 17:04

Naoya Inoue, who won the "World Boxing Super Series", who decides the strongest player in that class in boxing, met after a night after the final and said, "It was fun. And determined for the future.

The “World Boxing Super Series” is a tournament where world champions from different organizations compete in tournaments to determine the strongest players in their class.

Inoue, the bantamweight two-group unified champion, became the first champion of this class in the final of the night on the 7th, winning against the Philippine Nonito Donair who won the 5th class despite a hard fight.

Player Inoue met in Yokohama City on the 8th, one day after the match, about the face that left a scar of sewing five stitches on the left eye. “It ’s nice. I'm happy that I finally became a boxer. “I think it was very frustrating, but it was fun because I had the feeling that I was boxing only when I talked,” he looked back on.

In the early days, I was hit by an accident that my opponent punched and broke my eyes, and my vision was blurred, but I said, “I was able to fight while hiding my eyes well. I evaluated the game in the pinch.

As for the scene where the body blow was taken down in the 11th round, “In the first half, I couldn't hit the body by watching the opponent's left hook. I approached the end, hit the timing and hit it completely.” I looked back.

Regarding the future to be noticed, “I will only prove the strongest when I come here, so I do not know how many games will remain in the current bantamweight, but I would like to have a full battle,” with a stronger opponent Wanted a match.

Prove the "world's strongest" overcoming the accident

Naoya Inoue who became the first bantamweight champion in the "World Boxing Super Series". The final was the first time to overcome the first accident that crossed over the right eye and proved its own growth with “the strongest in the world”.

“I was able to prove the strength with which I was struck,” said Inoue with an invincible smile after finishing the final.

The biggest attraction of 26-year-old Inoue is the outstanding punching power of a lightweight class. In this tournament, the first round was knocked out in one round, and in the semi-finals the technical knockout was won in two rounds, and the world champions and former world champions were quickly rejected to show their overwhelming strength.

The final, with many media telling Inoue's superiority, played against 36-year-old Nonito Donair, who achieved the fifth-class victory. It was a user of an intense left hook called “Philippine flashlight”.

In the 46th round of the pro, the 19th round of Inoue was forced to struggle unprecedented due to the high level of skill and experience.

In the second round, the face was caught by the opponent's strong left hook, and the upper eye broke and bleeded. For the first time after entering the professional, it was cut with the opponent's punch, and it became a state that "Donair players look double".

With this accident, you can't get a sense of distance, and you can no longer hit the right straight. It became difficult to hit the counter to match the opponent's punch. Nonetheless, Inoue did not show any impatience.

We judged the situation where we were placed, “It's difficult to defeat. Let's focus on the points”, and stopped the opponent's feet with a fine punch while raising the guard high and attacking.

And at the end of the game, I increased my pace again, and in the 11th round, I decided to take down the strong left body blow that had been kneeling against my opponent many times in the battle so far, leading to a decision win. .

Inoue, who won the victory among the accidents, felt a tremendous force that could not be seen in a short round of games, such as the strength of being beaten by the opponent's punch and the urge to face adversity.

“World Boxing Super Series” was started to answer the simple question of “who is the strongest player” with multiple boxing organizations.

Inoue won the victory by surpassing the accident of sewing five stitches, and proved his own strong growth as well as the ability of the world's strongest.

After the match, it was announced that he had signed a multi-year contract with a major American promotional company, and is looking to expand overseas. There is great expectation for the future activity of “Monster”, which has become one of the world's most interesting boxers.