I don't think that there are pressures on his shoulder, he has been fighting all over the globe and beat the champions in their own homecourt and even marred with boxing riots because he beat their local hero.
A boxer fighting in his native country somehow bear pressure and motivation at the same time. Depending on the boxer, this pressure can be converted to more motivation performing better than his ordinary performance. So I think Casimero has more pressure in his shoulder now since the wants to KO the opponent in early round is put on the to do list just to satisfy the local audiences.
And in this case, he might be very comfortable in the face of his country man and I think we will see a better version of Casimero, maybe more so than this fight with Akaho as this is in the Philippines and he could be menacing in this fight, IMHO. As for the support of the PH government, it's true this boxers go in their own way without any support and they will only recognized them once they have succeed like Manny who has a hero's welcome every time he comes back after a big win in the US.
I also think that this pressure will serve as a fueling factor for Casimero to train harder and perform better on his upcoming fight. There is no better thing than emerging victorious by knocking out an opponent in early round in front of fans and local supporter.
Very interesting that it will be just 2 months before this fight, maybe it was a rush for Casimero to have a dancing partner because they need to rush things right now in his career. But I do agree that he needs to get busy and that his new promoter found someone that is willing to fight one of the hardest puncher in this division. For me it's better not to get ahead of himself and talk about Inoue again. Just go and fight and win and then later maybe he will be given the rights to face the Japanese monster. I think that is the smartest thing to do right now for him. Focus one fight at a time.
Don't worry about it if there have been talks about Inoue and him, we the fans are just the ones who are talking about it.
They've talked about it though, I mean Inoue responds to Casimero taunting before and they could have face each other already, if only Casimero has face Butler and won his fight.
Nevertheless, both of them have move to 122 lbs and so there is still a chance for them to chase that big fight. But it's more on Casimero side now to proved if he still has that brandish style and can conquer this division. That's why I said, just one fight at a time and maybe he will have his due to face the Inoue for the championship belt assuming Inoue will beat Fulton.
That fight possible fight against butler is the big disappointment to the fans since they really want to see the fight between Inoue and Casimero to happen but its like Casimero has been sabotage at that time. To many speculations and discussion happen about that controversy but I think both of the fighters move on already with that.
What disappointing is the cancellation of agreed fight between Inoue and Casimero due to the pandemic. That was a missed chance to see Casimero and Inoue boxing out for unification title.
