By: Sean Crose
“No Restrict Boxing regrets to announce that Sam Goodman has been compelled to withdraw from his scheduled bout towards Naoya Inoue on January 24 attributable to a recurrence of his eye damage.” So the promoters of 25 yr previous tremendous bantamweight contender Goodman posted on social media Saturday. “We want Sam a full and speedy restoration and can present updates on the occasion in the end.” With these phrases, the general public was offered with the truth that Goodman has as soon as once more needed to step away from a combat with undisputed tremendous bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue.
The 2 males had been supposed to fulfill on Christmas Eve, however a watch damage prevented the 19-0 Goodman for being prepared on combat evening. The bout with the 28-0 Inoue was then rescheduled for the twenty fourth of this month. Now, nonetheless, the combat has been pushed again as soon as extra. Suffice to say, Goodman is distraught by this most up-to-date flip of occasions. “I used to be having my final spar earlier than we flew out to Tokyo and, by freak accident, simply obtained lower leading to 4 stitches,” Goodman posted on social media, including that he wished the combat to go on.
“However taking up a man like this,” he continued, “my staff, ah, my staff had been simply saying I wouldn’t have the identical staff in my nook letting me go right into a combat like this compromised.” Comprehensible, certain, however irritating nonetheless. “I’m completely devastated to be doing this,” Goodman stated, “however it’s what it’s.” Goodman additionally publicly apologized to staff Inoue and their followers. “Sorry additionally to everybody in Japan who was additionally excited for this combat,” he stated. “To Inoue and his staff, I do know they’d’ve been getting ready laborious for this combat and I don’t need my alternative to go anyplace.”
Per Fox Sports activities Australia: “Inoue will now face South Korea’s Kim Ye-joon.” Ranked eleventh within the WBO’s record of contenders, Ye-joon now finds himself with the chance of a lifetime. Inoue, nonetheless, is without doubt one of the high, if not the only high, fighters on this planet of boxing at the moment. Beating him shall be a really powerful purpose to perform. “It’s his first expertise of getting to face a special fighter after a postponement,” Fox Sport’s Australia quotes Hideyuki Ohashi, president of Ohashi Fitness center, as saying, “however each Inoue and myself are taking this in a optimistic manner.”
