Naoya Inoue retakes No. 1 P4P ranking following win over Luis Nery

Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue is back at the top of The RING's prestigious pound-for-pound rankings following his win over Luis Nery last week.

Inoue, 27-0 with 24 knockouts, tasted the canvas for the first time in his career when he took a hard left hand on top in the opening round. But Inoue managed to beat the count in front of the 55,000 fans in attendance and scored a knockdown of his own before ending the bout via technical knockout in round six.

Inoue, 31, used to be the pound-for-pound king but was taken over by three-division champion Terence Crawford when the latter defeated Errol Spence Jr. in July 2023.

Inoue, though, has been the more active fighter having fought in undisputed bouts twice while Crawford is yet to see action again since beating Spence.

Crawford, 40-0 with 31 KOs, slipped to No. 2 in the rankings while Oleksandr Usyk, Canelo Alvarez, and Artur Beterbiev round up the top five.

Also making the cut at 6 to 10 were Dmitry Bivol, Spence, Gervonta Davis, Jesse Rodriguez and another Japanese fighter, Junto Nakatani.

—JMB, GMA Integrated News