Naoya Inoue vs. Alan David Picasso Romero & Junto Nakatani vs. Sebastian Hernandez Reyes RBR.

The honour of closing out 2025 belongs to Kazuto Ioka I’m afraid

 

Can Inoue hold up to his part of the deal?

 

Picasso has a brush, he may have other plans tonite

 

I have the vastly underrated Joe Martínez right up there with them in the modern ring announcer holy trinity.

 

Inoue should beat Nick Ball and retire...

 

Geez, Picasso looks like a twig.

 

True. But this feels like THE event. Ioka definitely deserves his flowers for a great career. Would be nice to see him go out with a win.

 

He did announce Canelo the winner against GGG in the rematch!

 

I've texted @LilButt (he's at his mom's), but he was on YouTube at quarter of 2 so not looking optimistic that he doesn't snooze through.

 

Different sport but Merab was upset earlier this month going for a 4th defense in 2025.

 

Probably the last fight we see Inoue still in or close to his physical prime, he will start slowing down noticeably from now, especially if he moves up again.

 

If you didn't already know him, Inoue with his blond afro could easily be taken for a Yakuza sidekick in a schlock action movie.

The one that stands at his boss' hip and nods along with all his trash-talk while snickering & filing his nails or something.

Then later he fails to kill the protagonist and chops off his pinky in shame.

 

Picasso is trying to paint a masterpiece tonite