Good match up although Inoue should win this pretty soundly. I'll go for Inoue 9th round KO. Nery is not a bad fighter but Inoue is on a different level. Would like to see Inoue move up a weight class if he beats Nery.
Excellent, it's refreshing to see a champion continue to fight the best available with no easy fights and no long drawn out negotiations or promoters trying to marinate fights. Nery can bang and will probably make it interesting while it lasts but in the end I expect the accuracy, speed and power of Inoue to be too much for him. Stops him in the middle rounds.
This will be a fun shootout brawl while it lasts before Inoue starts to wear down Nery and detonates the finishing blow. Inoue will most likely take this fight on a personal level given Nery's dishonorable way of beating Yamanaka and he'll see it as redemption for Japan.