Naoya Inoue suffers first knockdown of his profession – then delivers knockout victory | EUROtoday

Naoya Inoue, the undisputed world super-bantamweight champion, recovered from the primary knockdown of his skilled profession to cease Luis Nery in devastating vogue.

The 31-year-old Japanese, who has held world titles at 4 completely different weights and two undisputed, went down within the first spherical, however picked himself as much as safe a sixth-round victory after placing his Mexican opponent down for the third time with a brutal proper hand.

Nery shocked each the champion and a 55,000 sell-out crowd on the Tokyo Dome in Japan – the place Buster Douglas shocked Mike Tyson in 1990 – when barely two minutes into the combat he floored Inoue with a swinging left hook.

However, Nery needed to decide himself up from the canvas within the second after the Japanese fighter caught him with a brief left.

Inoue scored closely with the straight proper in a formidable third-round show and started to showboat within the fourth as a annoyed Nery repeatedly missed the goal together with his large punches and was peppered together with his opponent’s jab and physique photographs.

The 29-year-old’s work turned more and more untidy as he drained and after being warned for main together with his head, he was felled by one other left hook in spherical 5, and the tip arrived halfway by means of the sixth.

Inoue, nicknamed ‘The Monster’, had opened up Nery with a deadly mixture and having compelled him on to the ropes, dispatched him with a vicious proper hand to finish the competition and full a profitable second defence of the titles he gained in December.

It was the twenty seventh win of his unbeaten profession and twenty fourth knockout, and only a second defeat for Nery in 37 bouts.