What is everyone's speculation on John Riel Casimero after a very good knockout victory against his latest opponent Saul Sanchez? If I were being honest, I was certainly very shocked that he had a knockout hehehehe. I was speculating for him to be very lazy similar to his recent fights before Saul Sanchez.
Does this imply that he will make a challenge against the best opponents in super bantamweight, presently his weight division? He should challenge someone with a high rank who also was the winner of his last fight. I reckon Murodjon Akhmadaliev should be his next opponent. I am quite certain Akhmadaliev will like this after the loss he received against Marlon Tapales hehehehehe.
Akhmadaliev and Casimero should fight each other to determine who will be Inoue’s next opponent, but I don’t think it will happen. Because of politics and the promoter that Akhmadaliev is with, Inoue will be mandated to face him next year. Casimero is with a less powerful promoter and has a harder path to a world title. I’d like to see him against Nakatani, where he would be a huge underdog but it would be an opportunity to silence his critics by beating a top pound for pound fighter.
Yeah, it's the fantasy fight that I wanted to see, Nakatani vs Casimero, Nakatani moving up to 122 lbs and face Casimero and hopefully, he can make the weight this time if they fight is going to happen in the future.
As for Akhmadaliev, gonna be a hard path as well for him, after he lost to his title to Tapales all his hype is now gone and he has to face another good boxer as well to at least see his name on the contention again. Maybe him and Luis Nery could also be a title eliminator for WBA. As Murodjon Akhmadaliev is number 1 and Nery rank number 4.
It might be much better if Casmero can challenge Nakatani for his WBC bantamweight championship, I reckon. This would imply that Inoue's team might become more open on a champion vs. champion fight in super bantamweight where Inoue will risk his championships. Also, we can be quite certain that if the fight on Casimero and Nakatani is negotiated, it will be in Japan. If Casimero knocks out a Japanese fighter in his own home, this would certainly cause Japanese boxing fans to jeer with boiling blood in their veins. This might include Inoue heheheheheh.
In any case, it appears that Casimero was exercising lazily again. He was over the weight limit again for his latest fight?
And as a result of his laziness, he was ban for a year fighting in Japan. Nakatani just like Inoue is home grown, so he doesn't want to fight outside of his native country. And the manager of Casimero
(if he still has a manager right now), is not that big and influential that he can set up a fight in the US. So this fight could be just good in paper but i do not think that it can be made right away.
Inoue obviously as all the aces right now, as reported, he will have his last fight at super bantamweight against Sam Goodman. But we don't know if this is his for good or he wanted another fight with either Nakatani or Akhmadaliev next year. For Casimero, again, if he still has his Japanese manager, maybe a fight in the Philippines is his only chance, and it could be good if he can have Marlon Tapales, another Filipino and former champion. That will be the best case scenario for him.