Tomorrow in Tokyo (Japan) a boxing evening will take place, the main event of which will be the fight for the title of absolute champion of the bantamweight (up to 53.5 kg) between the WBC / WBA / IBF title holder Japanese Naoya “Monster” Inoue (23-0, 20 KOs) and Briton Paul Butler (34-2, 15 KOs), who owns the WBO title.
Today, boxers successfully passed the official weigh-in procedure, although Naoe had to be a little nervous. On the first attempt, Inoue exceeded the limit, showing 53.6 kg. I had to take off my underwear and try again. Order: 53.4 kg.
Butler had no problems even in his underwear – 53.5 kg on the first try.
After the procedure, Inoue said in an interview with
boxing scenethat “I always imagined how I would become the first absolute champion in the history of Japan”, and that after conquering 53.5 kg, he was going to “do the same in the next category up to 55.3 kg.”
Earlier, Inoue announced the “brilliance of boxing”, and Butler stated that he had a higher boxing IQ.
Source: https://vringe.com/news/161018-monstr-inoue-ogolilsya-i-podelilsya-grandioznymi-planami.htm?rand=141343
