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Inoue has knuckle injury
When the news came out on Tuesday that Japanese pound-for-pound star and three-division champion Naoya Inoue had suffered an injury that forced him to postpone his move up to junior featherweight to challenge unified titleholder Stephen Fulton on May 7 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, the was no clarity on the specific injury Inoue had.

And even when the promoters, including his United States promoter Top Rank, formally announced the postponement on Wednesday it was simply termed “a training injury” and that the bout would be rescheduled for a date to be announced in July.

But Fight Freaks Unite has learned that Inoue suffered a dislocated knuckle on his left hand, and injury obviously not too serious if they are planning to reschedule the fight for July.

Inoue (24-0, 21 KOs), 29, who has won world titles in three divisions, junior flyweight, junior bantamweight and bantamweight, where on Dec. 13 he knocked out Paul Butler in the 11th round to take his WBO belt to unify all four titles and become the first undisputed 118-pound champion of the three- or four-belt era and first undisputed champion in the division in 50 years dating to the two-belt era.

Fulton (21-0, 8 KOs) will make his third world title defense and second as a unified champion when he meets Inoue.


monster must be punching hard as shyt to dislocate a knuckle
 
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