5/4/2025 ESPN: Naoya Monster Inoue vs Ramon Cardenas (Undisputed Super Bantamweight Championship)

[Apollo Creed]

This is gonna be a good one, heard the ticket sales already did better than Davis vs Roach.

this shyt is not selling like that at all from what I have seen

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

this shyt is not selling like that at all from what I have seen

Americans don't turn up to boxing full stop, 20k for a crowd is nothing compared to the way the rest of the world turn up to boxing. This is why Hideyuki Ohashi could give two fukks about the US market, it's largely irrelevant for Inoue.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Americans don't turn up to boxing full stop, 20k for a crowd is nothing compared to the way the rest of the world turn up to boxing. This is why Hideyuki Ohashi could give two fukks about the US market, it's largely irrelevant for Inoue.

They didnt do good promoting this and its a sunday fight.

Inoue shoulda been headlining the Times square card lol

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

They didnt do good promoting this and its a sunday fight.

Inoue shoulda been headlining the Times square card lol

What I'm saying though is Inoue guarantees a minimum of 50,000 in Japan, as well as a huge domestic ppv.

In America there's rarely a fight with more than 40,000 (Spence v Crawford for example), and a bantamweight from overseas is never getting more than 15k max, that's just how America is.

 

[Apollo Creed]

What I'm saying though is Inoue guarantees a minimum of 50,000 in Japan, as well as a huge domestic ppv.

In America there's rarely a fight with more than 40,000 (Spence v Crawford for example), and a bantamweight from overseas is never getting more than 15k max, that's just how America is.

And what im saying is the promo for this fight has been horrible, and if you want to expand Monsters reach they could have put him on a stacked card or leverage the Ring event in NYC the same weekend especially since Monster has been meeting with Turki already. The spectical alone would get eyes on him to get casuals researching him

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

if you want to expand Monsters reach

America isn't the place, they can't.

 

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[patscorpio]

 

[spencerforhire]

I’m excited for this fight. I think Cardenas is good enough to put up a decent fight. I give him 8-10 rounds before he does down.

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

Americans don't turn up to boxing full stop, 20k for a crowd is nothing compared to the way the rest of the world turn up to boxing. This is why Hideyuki Ohashi could give two fukks about the US market, it's largely irrelevant for Inoue.

If you've seen those Pride events in the 00's, this isn't surprising at all.. The UFC is still trying to match that audience.

 

[patscorpio]

(ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT)

• Naoya Inoue 121.9 lbs. vs. Ramon Cardenas 121.8 lbs
(Inoue's Undisputed Junior Featherweight World Title - 12 Rounds)
Referee: Thomas Taylor
Judges: Max De Luca, David Sutherland and Steve Weisfeld

• Rafael Espinoza 125.4 lbs vs. Edward Vazquez 125.6 lbs
(Espinoza WBO Featherweight World Title — 12 Rounds)
Referee: Harvey Dock
Judges: Tim Cheatham, Eric Cheek and Patricia Morse Jarman

(ESPN+, 6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 p.m. PT)

• Rohan Polanco 146.2 lbs vs. Fabian Maidana 146 lbs
(Polanco's WBO Intercontinental Welterweight Title — 10 Rounds)

• Emiliano Fernando Vargas 138.7 lbs vs. Juan Leon 139.9 lbs
(Vacant Jr. NABF Junior Welterweight Title — 8 Rounds)

• Mikito Nakano 125.9 lbs vs. Pedro Marquez 126 lbs
(Featherweight — 10 Rounds)

• Art Barrera Jr. 152.7 lbs vs. Juan Carlos Guerra Jr. 153.7 lbs
(Junior Middleweight — 6 Rounds)

• Raeese Aleem 125.6 lbs vs. Rudy Garcia 125.3 lbs
(Bantamweight — 10 Rounds)

(SWING BOUT)

• Patrick O'Connor 196.1 lbs vs. Marcus Smith 188 lbs
(Cruiserweight — 4 Rounds)

 

[spencerforhire]

Compared to Friday and Saturdays bouts, I think Sundays card will probably the best one.

 

[Roid Jones]

Inoue the face of boxing