Inoue Vs. Donaire II – LIVE Action Results From Saitama, Japan

Nonito Donaire will be looking to take out the unbeaten pound-for-pound star Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue to bring him down to earth in their rematch on Tuesday night June 7th on ESPN+.

Three of the four bantamweight titles will be fought over in this fight. The start time for the event is 5:30 a.m. ET, which means it won’t be seen live by many Americans.

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Inoue is going to need to stay in one piece in this fight for him to have a shot at winning because Donaire was breaking his face apart piece by piece last time they fought.

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Donaire has looked like a completely different fighter since his loss to Inoue three years ago.

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That defeat instilled confidence in Nonito, making him realize that he’s a killer at 118, and capable of beating Inoue if he can land more of his shots than last time.

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WBC bantamweight champion Donaire (42-6, 28 KOs) lost to IBF/WBA champion Inoue (22-0, 19 KOs) in their fight in 2019 after getting off to a bad start, but he hurt him in the later rounds of the fight.

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At the end of the contest, Inoue looked like the loser, with a broken nose, fractured left orbital bone, and cut right eye.

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Nothing has changed since the two met. If anything, Donaire is even more powerful, destroying Nordine Oubaali and Reymart Gaballo in a pair of fourth-round knockouts.

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Donaire took Inoue’s best shots and kept coming, inflicting punishment on the Japanese star. Although Inoue had the crowd on his side at the Saitama Super Arena in 2019,

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it didn’t stop Donaire from going after him nonstop, unloading with powerful left hooks and right hands that rearranged the Japanese star’s face.

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