Naoya Inoue finishing Kono in round 6 on NYE to retain his WBO 115lbs title. Probably could have been stopped on the first knock down.

Full fight:

Naoya Inoue is 12-0 with 10 knockouts. Fighting at 115lbs and already ranked in some people's P4P best lists, Inoue is only 23 years-old and yet another rising Japanese combat sports star. For those that follow MMA/Rizin/Kickboxing, you will probably be familiar with names like Rena Kubota (3x Shootboxing Champion, 3-0 MMA) and 18 year-old Tenshin Nasukawa (17-0 kickboxing, 2-0 MMA).

Many people, including myself, are looking forward to the prospects of an eventual showdown between Inoue and arguable P4P #1, Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez. Hopefully we will get to see this fight at it's Ward/Kovalev-type "prime". Though, Inoue is only 23 and Gonzalez still just 29.

Fan-angle of the Kono knockout:

Random Inoue gifs that I like:

Visual representation of what "battling your demons" looks like.

Ghosting, but I wanna say something like "Yokai" or some other Japanese folklore, unfortunately, my Japanese knowledge is not up to par to find an apt term.

Some of the slickest shit I've ever seen. Ends with the liver shot each time, but the punch count is different, which doesn't allow Inoue to be predictable, in addition to being scary aware of the return punch.

Along with some boxers, such as Golovkin, Lomachenko, Gonzalez... Inoue is another fighter who not only wins fights, but does so with a crowd-pleasing, fan-friendly style.