Overview
- Ring V: Night of the Samurai is set for Dec. 27 at Riyadh’s 22,000‑seat Mohammed Abdo Arena, with main‑event ring walks expected around 12:55 p.m. GMT (7:55 a.m. ET, 3:55 p.m. local).
- The card streams on DAZN pay‑per‑view worldwide, priced at $69.99 in the U.S. and £19.99 in the U.K., with access via the DAZN app and website.
- Inoue enters 31-0 (27 KOs) as a prohibitive favorite (around -2500 at BetMGM) against the taller, unbeaten Picasso (32-0-1, 17 KOs), who has embraced underdog status and vowed to “beat the Monster.”
- Three‑division champion Junto Nakatani debuts at 122 lbs against unbeaten Sebastian Hernandez Reyes after vacating his bantamweight belts, positioning a potential all‑Japanese superfight with Inoue if both prevail.
- The undercard features Willibaldo Garcia vs. Kenshiro Teraji for the IBF super‑flyweight title, plus Reito Tsutsumi vs. Leobardo Quintana and Taiga Imanaga vs. Eridson Garcia, while Jazza Dickens’ planned defense was canceled due to challenger Hayato Tsutsumi’s injury.