Naoya Inoue’s former foe Luis Nery brutally knocked out after being dropped SIX TIMES

John Riel Casimero decked Luis Nery six times en route to a brutal fourth-round knockout win in Aichi, Japan, on Saturday.

The three-weight world champion sent Nery tumbling to the canvas inside the opening thirty seconds, courtesy of a sharp left hook and then dropped him twice more in the first frame with the same shot.

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Nery dusted himself and got back to work, but he was dropped for a fourth time early in the second round by a step back right hand as he lunged in with reckless abandon.

Another left hook caught Nery on top of the head in the dying embers of the third round to increase the knockdown tally to five.

Up to this point, Nery had quickly jumped back up from the shots, but he wouldn’t be able to recover from his sixth and final fall.

Casimero narrowed Nery’s guard with a crisp right hand before whipping a left hook onto his temple to close the show.

In victory, the Filipino veteran improves to 36-5-1, while Nery falls to 37-3.

Casimero called for a fight with undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue in the immediate aftermath.

Nery previously fell to a sixth-round knockout loss to Inoue in May 2024.

However, he became the first man to drop ‘The Monster’ in the process.

It remains to be seen where Nery’s career goes from here after losing two of his last four fights.

The former WBC bantamweight and super bantamweight champion is now further from the world title picture than he has been in over a decade.

Luis Nery’s weight misses and ban from Japan

Nery also missed weight by 3lbs raising further questions about his discipline.

The Mexican is a serial offender, with this being the fourth time he has come in overweight for a fight.

In 2018, Nery tipped the scales 5lbs over the bantamweight limit for his rematch with Shinsuke Yamanaka.

He was stripped of the WBC 118lbs title as a result and was later banned for life by the Japan Boxing Commission.

The suspension was lifted before his fight with Inoue, and his bout with Casimero is his second in Japan since the reversal.

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