David Benavidez vs. Gilberto Ramirez and Naoya Inoue vs. Junto Nakatani: Preview, picks for weekend's super fights
Two super fights, two continents, and the most important boxing weekend of the year — it doesn't get much better than this.
Cinco De Mayo weekend has long been synonymous with the biggest and best fights in boxing. In recent years, the date was dominated first by Floyd Mayweather Jr. and later by Canelo Alvarez — two of the sport’s biggest U.
S. -based stars and pound-for-pound No. 1 fighters of their respective eras who carried on the tradition of staging marquee fights on the notable date.
And this year is no different — except there’s a new set of names leading the way. On Saturday morning in front of 55,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, the country’s two best fighters, Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani, battle for the undisputed super bantamweight title in the biggest all-Japanese fight in history. If that wasn’t enough, some 15 hours later, the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas hosts Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez’s unified cruiserweight title defense against emerging superstar David Benavidez in a battle of multi-division champions of Mexican descent.
Two super fights, two continents, and the most important boxing weekend of the year — it doesn’t get much better than this. Naoya Inoue vs. Junto Nakatani: Undisputed super bantamweight championship Inoue, a four-division champion and Uncrowned’s No.
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