Naoya Inoue climbed off the canvas against Ramon Cardenas, yet Gervonta “Tank” Davis would have ended it for good.
In the second round, Cardenas dropped the Monster with a sharp left hook, the second knockdown of Inoue’s career.
The Japanese star rose calmly, reset, and took over the fight with precise, punishing power.
He dropped Cardenas in the seventh and forced a referee stoppage at 0:45 of the eighth.
All three judges had it 68-63 for Inoue, awarding him every round except the second.
Against Tank, that early vulnerability ends the night.
Davis’s power would destroy him before any recovery.
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