This win might stand out among most of the rest in Naoya Inoue’s already storied career. The effort put forth by Marlon Tapales exceeded the name value he brought to his undisputed junior featherweight championship. Yokohama’s Inoue eventually found...
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Inoue, Tapales Fight Photos Gallery - WBC/WBO junior featherweight world champion Naoya "The Monster" Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs) made history again. The Japanese pound-for-pound superstar knocked out Filipino IBF/WBA champion Marlon Tapales in round 10 to...
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Naoya Inoue built up a 24-5 power punches landed advantage over the first three rounds. Marlon Tapales came alive in the fourth round, where he threw 53 punches, his fight high. Unfortunately for him, Inoue knocked him down at the end of the round.
The victory lap will be brief. Naoya Inoue has already begun plans for his next fight, a conversation that already took place in the background ahead of his latest fight. The four-division champion became a freshly crowned undisputed king after a ten...
Naoya Inoue has created history. Again. The four-division titlist and high-ranking pound-for-pound earned his second undisputed championship in just more than a year after an eleventh-round knockout of the Philippines’ Marlon Tapales. Inoue scored tw...
There is no intention to merely give it a go or dare to be great. Marlon Tapales is here to shock the world. That is the message that has been sent from the moment the 31-year-old Filipino southpaw set his sights on Naoya
Naoya Inoue has become familiar with making history for his native Japan. A supreme skillset—arguably the most talented fighter in the sport—has greatly enabled his pound-for-pound rise. Inoue freely admits, however, the recent run he’s enjoyed to re...
Former junior featherweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev desperately wants to rectify the lone loss of his career by taking on the winner of the upcoming undisputed 122-pound championship between Naoya Inoue and Marlon Tapales.
Marlon Tapales has insisted to anyone who will listen that he is not done with his upset tour. The reigning WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist has arrived in Tokyo for the biggest challenge of his fifteen-year pro career. Looming ahead for the 31-y...
Inoue, Tapales Weights Photos Gallery - Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Inoue vs. Tapales will be presented live on Tuesday, December 26, at a special early morning start time, 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT, exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+. This historic event take...
Marlon Tapales enjoyed a far different weight-in experience than his previous trip to Japan. The visiting Filipino was 121.2 pounds—nearly a full pound under the junior featherweight divisional limit—for his bid to become undisputed champion. He puts...
The featherweight division can breathe a sigh of relief. While there exists the desire to one day win at least a fifth divisional title, Naoya Inoue has no plans to leave the 122-pound division through at least the end of 2024. The unified WBC/WBO ti...
Inoue, Tapales Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Inoue vs. Tapales will be presented live on Tuesday, December 26, at a special early morning start time, 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT, exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+. This hist...
