Naoya’s younger brother Takuma Inoue, meanwhile, successfully defended his WBC bantamweight title for the first time with a dominant 12-round display against veteran Kazuto Ioka, who was emphatically denied the chance to become Japan’s first-ever five-weight world champion and join the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Terence Crawford – who was at ringside on Saturday alongside Turki Alalshikh – in the history books.
