Thursday night in Saitama, Japan, Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire put on a tremendous show for boxing fans. In the finals of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight tournament, the pair slugged it out for the full 12 rounds, with the 26-year-old Japanese star winning a well deserved unanimous decision.
The official scores were 116-111, 117-109 and 114-113, all for Inoue, but the scorecards don’t really tell the full story of the spectacular fight these two put on.
Inoue seemed to have a significant speed and power advantage early on, winning most of the exchanges in the opening rounds.