In the upper battle that took place on the evening of December 13, the “monster” Naoya Inoue showed that he was absolutely worthy of the title of the strongest puncher in the world at the moment. Confronted with Paul Butler, Inoue took the initiative to play, pressing most of the competition time. On the other side, butler can only avoid, no chance of counterattack.
Inoue was originally predicted to defeat Butler in the 6th half. The British fighter fought more tenacious than expected, but he could not stay to the end. Entering the 11th half, butler collapsed after the very heavy combo of Inoue. This match helped Inoue continue to keep the achievement of winning and going into the history of the professional boxing.
By winning the WBO belt from Butler, Inoue has captured all the WBA (Super), WBC, WBO, IBF, and The Ring title in Bantamweight. He is also the first puncher in this weight in the past 50 years to become the absolute champion, and can be considered as the greatest puncher in history in Bantamweight.
The closest person in advance Inoue won the title of Bantamweight's absolute champion, Enrique Pinker. However, in the early 70s, Pinker was awarded this title thanks to owning 2 WBA and WBC belts. Pinder's achievements and seniors in history cannot match “Japanese monsters”.
Inoue's victory was even more convincing in the context that he completely defeated Butler with an overwhelming battle. This match transcript has not been officially announced, but according to the boxing community, Inoue can completely win 100-90 (winning 10 rounds) before Ha Ko Butler in the 11th half.
The victory of Butler was also the 21/24 time the upper battle that Inoue lowered the opponent. The boxer born in 1993 showed that he had no opponent in every weight he had played so far. With what has shown, Inoue will be difficult to continue finding an opponent with him in the future.