Naoya Inoue has maintained his unified bantamweight titles, and his undefeated record, with a much more convincing second round win over Nonito Donaire in Japan this afternoon.
The boxers met in the exact same venue; the Saitama Super Arena, back in 2019, having one of the fights of the year in the World Boxing Super Series final. And after Donaire managed to pick up the WBC belt, the pair were matched up again this afternoon in what was a very similar environment to the first bout.
Tens of thousands were in attendance for the highly-anticipated rematch, which featured a beloved home fighter in Inoue. The normally quietly confident unified champion, made his walk in bombastic fashion, with legendary Japanese guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei playing him into the ring.
