{"id":209636,"date":"2025-06-24T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:08:12","slug":"naoya-inoue-vs-alan-picasso-reportedly-eyed-for-december-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209636\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue vs Alan Picasso reportedly eyed for December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finalize<\/a>Turki Alalshikh tells The Ring<\/a> that his team is \u201cclose to finalizing\u201d a December 27th showdown between undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue and WBC mandatory challenger Alan Picasso, which would headline a card themed around Japanese fighters facing Mexican\/Mexican-American foes.<\/p>\n

There are obviously still a few hurdles left to clear. Inoue (30-0, 27 KO) is gearing up to face the very capable Murodjon Akhmadaliev in September, while Picasso (31-0-1, 17 KO) faces the limited-but-dangerous Kyonosuke Kameda on next month\u2019s Pacquiao vs Barrios undercard. It\u2019s also unclear what\u2019s changed for Picasso since he bailed on an Inoue fight earlier this year<\/a>; Kameda will be his lone foe of 2025 to date. If he wasn\u2019t ready than, he\u2019s not going to be ready in six months.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, let\u2019s speculate on those other Japan vs Mexico showdowns. Junto Nakatani vs Ramon Cardenas<\/a>? Kenshiro Teraji vs \u201cBam\u201d Rodriguez? Tenshin Nasukawa vs Jose Salas Reyes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FinalizeTurki Alalshikh tells The Ring that his team is \u201cclose to finalizing\u201d a December 27th showdown between undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[63909,10520,1935,29343,66412,3576,163,10522,60222,10521,60221,18180,25050,79,16,15,6691],"class_list":["post-209636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-alan","tag-bad","tag-boxing","tag-december","tag-eyed","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-hook","tag-inoue","tag-left","tag-naoya","tag-picasso","tag-reportedly","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114736850828007141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}