Paul Butler has fired a blunt warning to Naoya Inoue as he goes in search of boxing immortality in December.
Inoue will attempt to become undisputed world bantamweight champion when he faces Butler at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, December 13. The Japanese hero holds the IBF, WBA and WBC belts and wants to clean up the division before moving up in weight – but two-time world champion Butler holds the missing piece of the puzzle.
Butler (34-2, 15 KOs), won the WBO interim title in April with a unanimous points victory over Jonas Sultan and was then upgraded to full champion after John Riel Casimero was stripped of the belt. And the 33-year-old heads to the Land of the Rising Sun, fully intent on becoming boxing’s first undisputed bantamweight champion in half a century and scoring one of the biggest away wins by a British fighter ever.
