WBO super flyweight champion Naoya Inoue (9-0, 8 KOs) scored a second round knockout over Filipino challenger Warlito Parenas (24-7-1, 21 KOs) on Tuesday at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan.
The Japanese fighter returned to the ring for the first time in a year and dropped Parenas twice before the referee stopped the one-sided bout.
Inoue stopped Argentina’s long-reigning world champion Omar Narvaez in the second round to win the WBO belt last December. However, he badly hurt his right hand in…