Naoya Inoue knocked out Marlon Tapales in 10 rounds on the Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo to win the undisputed super-bantamweight title.
Profitable made Inoue the primary super-bantamweight champion of the four-belt period.
It’s also a historic achievement as he joins Terence Crawford as certainly one of solely two males to turn into two-weight undisputed four-belt champions.
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Inoue engages Tapales in thrilling exchanges. (AP Picture/Hiro Komae)
It was somewhat over a 12 months in the past that Inoue was going undisputed at bantamweight.
In simply his first battle at 122lbs in July, he knocked out Stephen Fulton to win the WBC and WBO titles.
He served up one other spectacular end to beat Marlon Tapales, who was the reigning IBF and WBO titlist after a career-best win over Murodjon Akhmadaliev earlier this 12 months.
Inoue dropped Tapales within the fourth spherical after which delivered one other knockdown within the tenth. Tapales couldn’t beat the referee’s depend.
“I want to give an enormous shout-out to Marlon Tapales,” Inoue stated afterwards. “Such a troublesome opponent.
“He by no means confirmed me fatigue or harm so I used to be fairly stunned when he went down on this spherical.
“I feel super-bantamweight is my weight division for now so in 2024, I want to present myself at super-bantamweight in even stronger kind.”
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