Akhmadaliev’s most successful moment of a one-sided contest came with a right hand that pushed Inoue back against the ropes with mere seconds remaining in the final round, but it was too little, too late from the Uzbekistani challenger, who suffered his second pro loss and first since losing the WBA and IBF unified super-bantamweight titles against Marlon Tapales in an upset in 2023, snapping a three-fight winning streak.
