{"id":36670,"date":"2025-09-20T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/inoue-vs-picasso-and-nakatani-vs-hernandez-clash-towards-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:27:42","slug":"inoue-vs-picasso-and-nakatani-vs-hernandez-clash-towards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/inoue-vs-picasso-and-nakatani-vs-hernandez-clash-towards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoue vs. Picasso and Nakatani vs. Hern\u00e1ndez: Clash towards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Naoya Inoue Secures His Fourth Fight of the Year<\/h2>\n<p>The undisputed super bantamweight champion, Naoya Inoue, has confirmed his fourth fight of the year, a few days after successfully defending his title against Murodjon Akhmadaliev.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue will face Mexican Alan David Picasso on December 27 at the Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event, called &#8220;The Ring V: Night of the Samurai&#8221;, will also feature Junto Nakatani defending his WBC and IBF bantamweight titles against Sebastian Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation is that, if Inoue and Nakatani win their respective fights, they will face each other in an anticipated duel in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue (31-0, 27 KOs), who secured a unanimous decision over Akhmadaliev last Sunday, hadn&#8217;t had so much activity since 2013, the second year of his professional career. In 2025, he has defeated Ki Ye-Joon, Ramon Cardenas, and Ahkmadaliev, and now seeks to add Picasso to his list of victories. Picasso (32-0-1, 17 KOs) last fought in July, winning a majority decision over Kyonosuke Kameda in a ten-round bout.<\/p>\n<p>Nakatani (31-0, 24 KOs) has fought twice in 2025, achieving technical knockout victories over Ryosuke Nishida and David Cuellar Contreras. He has actively sought a match with Inoue and will have his opportunity if he manages to defeat Hernandez (20-0, 18 KOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naoya Inoue Secures His Fourth Fight of the Year The undisputed super bantamweight champion, Naoya Inoue, has confirmed his fourth fight of the year, a few days after successfully defending his title against Murodjon Akhmadaliev. Inoue will face Mexican Alan David Picasso on December 27 at the Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8942,205,3965,896],"class_list":{"0":"post-36670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-alan-picasso","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-nakatani","10":"tag-naoya-inoue"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}