By: Sean Crose
“No Restrict Boxing regrets to announce that Sam Goodman has been pressured to withdraw from his scheduled bout towards Naoya Inoue on January 24 on account of a recurrence of his eye harm.” So the promoters of 25 12 months outdated tremendous bantamweight contender Goodman posted on social media Saturday. “We want Sam a full and speedy restoration and can present updates on the occasion sooner or later.” With these phrases, the general public was introduced 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 satisfy on Christmas Eve, however an eye fixed harm prevented the 19-0 Goodman for being prepared on combat night time. The bout with the 28-0 Inoue was then rescheduled for the twenty fourth of this month. Now, nevertheless, 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 received lower leading to 4 stitches,” Goodman posted on social media, including that he needed 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 making ready exhausting 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 checklist of contenders, Ye-joon now finds himself with the chance of a lifetime. Inoue, nevertheless, is likely one of the prime, if not the one prime, fighters on this planet of boxing immediately. Beating him can be a really powerful objective 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 constructive approach.”
