Murodjon Akhmadaliev trains in California, readying to challenge unbeaten Naoya Inoue for the undisputed junior featherweight ...

Naoya Inoue is back to further his case for being the best pound-for-pound boxer alive and defend his undisputed junior featherweight championship against Murodjon Akhmadaliev on Sept. 14.

The unbeaten Inoue stopped American Ramon Cardenas in the eighth round in Las Vegas in his previous bout -- the first time the boxer known as "Monster" had fought outside Japan in four years.

That’s what you’re supposed to do in boxing.” Inoue last appeared in the ring May 4 in Las Vegas, when he came off the deck to drop and eventually stop Ramon Cardenas early in the eighth round.

The bout between champion boxers Naoya Inoue (30-0-0, 27 KOs) and Junto Nakatani (31-0-0, 24 KOs) is already being billed as Japan’s “fight of the century.” And the date hasn’t even been set.

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