WBO bantamweight champion (up to 53.5 kg) Paul Butler (34-2, 15 KOs) was not afraid of the ease with which Naoya Inoue (22-0, 19 KOs) destroyed Nonito Donaire in a rematch yesterday, and has already announced desire to fight with him for the status of number 1 in the division. He spoke about this
Sky Sports.
“I hope he really wants to try to become an absolute,” said the Briton. “It will be a great honor for me to go into the ring with a tough pound fighter.”
According to Butler, his coach Joe Gallagher will come up with an effective plan for the fight with the Japanese holder of the WBC, WBA and IBF belts.
“It will be a difficult task, but I am ready to take it on,” he concluded.
It was too much. Inoue destroys Donaire in rematch – our report
Recall that the 33-year-old Briton won the “interim” WBO title, but after the real champion John Riel Casimero was stripped of the title for disruption of fights, Butler was promoted to a full-fledged champion.
Today, after the rematch with Donaire, Naoya said that the priority for the next fight is a meeting with Butler.
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