Maybe we can speculate it that way, that Inoue has duck Casimero and Murodjon Akhmadaliev. But that's the thing is boxing, there are a lot of great fighters and this boxers can only fight at certain point. And we can say that Goodman is lucky to have a chance to fight Inoue for his last fight at super bantamweight.
Because if they are going to stay true at their plans, next year, Inoue will be fighting in the US for a new weight class. And then we can only think of what if for Inoue for 3 fighters, including fellow Japanese Junto Nakatani. Inoue is 31 years old so he is about to hit his peak and that is good for him to leave and go to the US and really test against the best of 126 lbs. Brandon Figueroa, Rey Vargas and Angelo Leo will be a mega fight for us boxing fans.
That's what rumors are saying. It's been said that if he is to fight Tank Davis, he has to be matched up with someone popular in the US since he isn't known in the country. But climbing up to heavier weight class will just be a disadvantage to him, he may not even need to fight someone like Davis and yet he'll be crawling on the mat. He got knocked down by Luis Nery which is a manifestation of adding weight.