WBO bantamweight world champion Jason Moloney will defend his title in the iconic Tokyo Dome on Monday and will fight in front of the biggest crowd yet for an Australian boxer.
WBO World Bantamweight champion Jason Moloney will step through the ropes in the Tokyo Dome on Monday to defend his title in front of the biggest crowd any Australian boxer has ever faced.
“I didn’t realise that this was the biggest crowd that any Australian has ever fought in front of and that’s mind-blowing and a true honour to do that,” Moloney said. The 33-year-old is used to living a quiet existence at home in Kingscliff in northern NSW, where he is rarely recognised on his training runs with his twin brother Andrew, the WBO Global Super Flyweight champion.The bantamweight has fought all over the world as an amateur and professional, but he was shocked by the attention he received after travelling to Osaka to promote the fight against Takei.
“I’d walk into coffee shops, restaurants and people would know me and come up and talk to me … getting more love over in Japan than what I do in Australia was just incredible.” Inoue will headline the event at the Tokyo Dome and is considered one of the world’s best pound-for-pound boxers, generating increased interest in the sport in Japan that Moloney hopes to exploit commercially as his decorated career comes to a close.
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