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<\/a>The Quarter- and Semi-Final were over in a total of just 5 minutes and 29 seconds after two mind-boggling performances against Payano and Rodriguez. But in the final, the Japanese \u2018Monster\u2019 had to conquer legendary Donaire over the full distance in a battle aptly dubbed \u2018The Drama in Saitama\u2019 and celebrated as Fight of the Year 2019.<\/p>\nWhat were your thoughts when you became part of the WBSS?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI was struggling to find opponents when I was at Super Flyweight, so it was such a delight for me to be a part of the WBSS.\u201d<\/p>\n What went through your head after beating Payano in just 70 seconds?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI never imagined myself beating Payano in 70 seconds before the fight. I felt our moves like slow motion around the end of the fight, so I can say that I was in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rodriguez fight \u2026what are your memories from that fight?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI was so excited because it was my first fight in Glasgow as well as my first title unification bout. I won in the best possible way. It became such a great memory for me.\u201d<\/p>\n What was it like to fight Donaire? What did you learn from the fight and how deep did you have to dig in order to win?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDonaire is one of the boxing legends to me. This thought made it impossible to make a prediction of how our fight would go. Even though I suffered an orbital fracture in the second round, I tried to stay smart. I won via decision. It was such a big test for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking back at the tournament, what is your favorite moment, and what are your hopes for the future?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe most impressive experience at the WBSS is all the stage production such as lighting and so on. And I still remember the weight of the (Ali) trophy I was given after the Final.<\/p>\n “I guess I got a number of choices right now \u2026 The unification bout with WBO and going up a weight division etc. I will discuss it with my team and make my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [AdSense-A] The Quarter- and Semi-Final were over in a total of just 5 minutes and 29 seconds after two mind-boggling performances against Payano and Rodriguez. But in the final, the Japanese \u2018Monster\u2019 had to conquer legendary Donaire over the full distance in a battle aptly dubbed \u2018The Drama in Saitama\u2019 and celebrated as Fight of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22851],"class_list":["post-90842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-inoue-discusses-his-wbss-fights-looks-to-the-future-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90842"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}