Even the backup plan for Johnriel Casimero’s anticipated fight against unbeaten Japanese Naoya Inoue won’t happen.
DECISION. Johnriel Casimero needs to decide on his next step. File photo by Alvin S. Go/Rappler
Stuck in Las Vega still training and hoping that his unification collision with Naoya “Monster” Inoue would be rescheduled soon, Casimero’s hopes vanished on Wednesday, April 22 when Bob Arum, big boss of Top Rank which is promoting the unbeaten Japanese icon, told Crystina Poncher on YouTube the bantamweight bout is off for now.
Arum bared there were plans to stage the fight, originally set April 25 at Mandalay Bay Events Center, on a later date in Japan, which was lightly hit by coronavirus until last month. The recent spike in COVID-19 cases in Japan, however, aborted the plan. “Unfortunately, it looks like we have to put that fight on the back burner. Casimero has stayed in the United States, in Las Vegas and perhaps we can talk to his people and do another fight for him because he is a champion of one of the organizations that Inoue is not a part of.”
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