{"id":254110,"date":"2025-07-10T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254110\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:08:10","slug":"inoue-akhmadaliev-on-sept-14-in-nagoya-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254110\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoue-Akhmadaliev on Sept. 14 in Nagoya, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue<\/a> was always set to face Murodjon Akhmadaliev<\/a> on Sept. 14 \u2014 there is no secret there.
But Thursday in Japan, Ohashi Promotions held a press conference to formally announce Inoue’s fight against his long-waiting WBA mandatory challenger<\/a>, as well as other supporting bouts, which will take place at the newly built Aichi International Arena (IG Arena) in Nagoya.
In other bouts, WBO bantamweight champion Yoshiki Takei<\/a> (11-0, 9 KOs) will make his third title defence against mandatory challenger Christian Medina<\/a> (25-4, 18 KOs), and a WBA strawweight title fight will take place between Yuni Takada<\/a> (16-8-3, 6 KOs) and Ryusei Matsumoto<\/a> (6-0, 4 KOs).
This card takes place on a Sunday, the day after two of the sport’s other top pound-for-pound fighters in Canelo Alvarez<\/a> and Terence Crawford<\/a> battle it out in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Inoue (30-0, 27 KOs), The Ring’s No. 2-rated pound-for-pound fighter, took to social media and labelled Akhmadaliev as the toughest opponent of his career, a solid compliment considering he’s been involved in championship fights for 10 successive years. Akhmadaliev will represent the four-division champion’s 26th consecutive world title fight. <\/p>\n

Inoue is coming off a Fight of the Year contender<\/a> against Ramon Cardenas<\/a> in which he was dropped for the second time in a year, only to rally and get a resounding eighth-round stoppage win.
If Inoue beats Akhmadaliev, and if David Picasso<\/a> is victorious in his July 19 fight against Japanese contender Kyonosuke Kameda, the two are expected to headline<\/a> a Japan vs. Mexico Riyadh Season card on Dec. 27 in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Akhmadaliev (14-1, 11 KOs) would have gotten the Inoue fight much sooner if he hadn’t suffered a split-decision defeat to Marlon Tapales<\/a> in April 2023. <\/p>\n

Inoue went on to knock out Tapales eight months later, while Uzbekistan’s Akhmadaliev strung three straight stoppage wins before sealing a chance to face the Japanese star.<\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring’s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue was always set to face Murodjon Akhmadaliev on Sept. 14 \u2014 there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,33729,7177,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-murodjon-akhmadaliev","10":"tag-naoya-inoue","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114830278902311932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254110","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=254110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}