Naoya Inoue vs. Marlon Tapales | Sky Sports - 26 December 2023

[THEBUTCH]

Nothing less than we've come to expect from the ever impressive Inoue

Nayoa didn't seem in any hurry until the 4th round when he managed to engage Tapales in a brief firefight and within seconds Marlon was in a heap on the canvas.

Tapales earned a few props for trying to match Inoue in the 5th, but then as each round passed Inoue moved further & further out of reach and then concluded matters with a clear-cut stoppage in the 10th.

I hope Inoue doesn't move up any further in weight classes simply because I love seeing an undisputed world champion dominate a division.

[handsofstone]

Nothing less than we've come to expect from the ever impressive Inoue

Nayoa didn't seem in any hurry until the 4th round when he managed to engage Tapales in a brief firefight and within seconds Marlon was in a heap on the canvas.

Tapales earned a few props for trying to match Inoue in the 5th, but then as each round passed Inoue moved further & further out of reach and then concluded matters with a clear-cut stoppage in the 10th.

I hope Inoue doesn't move up any further in weight classes simply because I love seeing an undisputed world champion dominate a division.

I kind of agree with the whole staying and dominating your division instead of flip flopping, too many fighters these days are quick to pick up a title then vacate straight away and move up but with Inoue id love to see him up at feather against the likes of Lopez and Espinoza

[SeanBrennan]

watching this shortly as father in law here, I know the result but looking forward to it. What a fighter!

[coneye]

Sam Goodman could be next. Unbeaten, #1 in the IBF and WBO. He had a pretty decent amateur career.

Sams not in the same class has Inoue , good little boxer , but watch him close , he looks good one minuite then makes basic mistakes the next , do that with Inoue and your going to sleep , , Nope keep Sam well away from Inoue , unless its life changing money

[SeanBrennan]

Sam Goodman could be next. Unbeaten, #1 in the IBF and WBO. He had a pretty decent amateur career.

Sams not in the same class has Inoue , good little boxer , but watch him close , he looks good one minuite then makes basic mistakes the next , do that with Inoue and your going to sleep , , Nope keep Sam well away from Inoue , unless its life changing money

never fought outside Oz and did not win the am national title. Inoue will beat him so much he'll transition.

[gregregegg]

Sams decent but would get butchered by inoue.

Nery, MJ, 126 belts…

Few good guys weights bellow him that could move up and meet at 118ish.

[handsofstone]

Loved that straight right hand that landed repeatedly, dips to the right then throws it diagonally, different

[margaret thatcher]

nery has a backstory of inoue getting revenge for japan. and nery is pretty good. a guy with explosive offense

mj i think may actutally be better than nery, but there's no real history there and on paper he recently lost to the guy inoue just ko'd. still, i rate him and if inoue is continuing at 122 he's someone i'd be interested in seeing. i still think he's better than tapales despite losing their fight.

sam is a strong steady fighter, with a good body attack, but too basic at this level . paul butler level imo, albeit with a more aggressive style.

126 could be too far. it would be great to see a serious challenge. although when a guy wins basically just by being big it's kinda meh

[margaret thatcher]

at 126 top rank , inoue's american promoter, has the wbo title (espinoza) and the ibf title (lopez). theyre also promoting the vacant title fight between otabek and raymond ford, but i believe only have otabek on their roster. so they could have 3 of the 4 champs at 126 soon

lopez is fighting abe soon, meaning we'll either still have the top rank controlled champ or a new japanese champ (who may actually be TR controlleed too if bob has options on him)

i think lopez or abe would be the one i'd think inoue would go for. my guess is TR is going to build to espinoza -robesiy ramirez 2 on the other side

but i need to see inoue smoke nery for japan first

[Ruthless-RKO]

CompuBox Punch Stats



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.

Despite the knockdown, Tapales’ resurgence continued. His timely counterpunching limited Inoue to single digits in landed punches in rounds seven and eight after Inoue had strung together five consecutive rounds of double digit lands.

Tapales’ success created more openings for Inoue, who landed 23% of his jabs and 43% of his power punches, compared to 10% and 20% for Tapales. 33% of Inoue’s landed power punches were body punches. The end for Tapales came at 1:02 of the tenth round, when Inoue knocked him down and out.

[Delta Jay]

at 126 top rank , inoue's american promoter, has the wbo title (espinoza) and the ibf title (lopez). theyre also promoting the vacant title fight between otabek and raymond ford, but i believe only have otabek on their roster. so they could have 3 of the 4 champs at 126 soon

lopez is fighting abe soon, meaning we'll either still have the top rank controlled champ or a new japanese champ (who may actually be TR controlleed too if bob has options on him)

i think lopez or abe would be the one i'd think inoue would go for. my guess is TR is going to build to espinoza -robesiy ramirez 2 on the other side

but i need to see inoue smoke nery for japan first

Naoya Nery is my #1 fight id like to see myself

[handsofstone]

Wouldn't mind seeing Inoue turn Nery's face into hamburger meat, him or Akhmadaliev will do nicely

[golden_labrador]

Didn't notice it either. Looked very confusing live, but from a different angle, you can see it clearly.

Found the Video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Boxing/s/tdeZbQ84hN

thanks Sendo - was looking for that managed to watch the match afterwards on YouTube but an advert hid the replay at the end...

i keep thinking back to the Donaire first fight whenever Inoue starts getting a bit loose. he's a monster but he's not indestructible. can him and Tank ever meet in the ring?

p4p great and a privilege to see in action

[Sendo Takeshi]

No problem

I don't think the fight with Tank happens and I don't think it should happen.
If Inoue goes up to 135 that's 7 weight classes above his original weight class, to fight a powerful guy like Tank.
That's like Tank going up to Light Heavy to fight Beterbiev or Bivol.
I could see him beating someone like Kambosos though.

I think the best case scenario would be fighting Nery, MJ and Casimero and going to featherweight, as his last weight class, and try to unfiy.

[handsofstone]

The whole Inoue/Crawford debate on Twitter is getting right on my tits, every other tweet is someone belittling the others achievements to bolster their claim, who cares about foty and all that tackle anyway? Appreciating 1 doesn't automatically mean the other ones shite, fckn Americans mostly of course, considering they spawned the best fighters that ever lived their fan base is the thickest on the planet, especially the African American demographic, racist pieces of sh1t who only know about 8 fighters all aligned with PBC, guys like Artman, Curtis Scoon and Ray Jackson, don't follow any or them but their constantly on my timeline, im being deadly serious when I say I've never encountered a single person in all my years on Boxrec whose as dumb as they 3 I've mentioned, proper spastics, guys like Crawford, Tank, Herring, Ellerbe and Clarissa will regularly engage with them as well, Britain's got plenty of fckwits as well of course but nowhere near as high % and they get treated with the contempt they deserve

Only in America eh

[margaret thatcher]

The whole Inoue/Crawford debate on Twitter is getting right on my tits, every other tweet is someone belittling the others achievements to bolster their claim, who cares about foty and all that tackle anyway? Appreciating 1 doesn't automatically mean the other ones shite, fckn Americans mostly of course, considering they spawned the best fighters that ever lived their fan base is the thickest on the planet, especially the African American demographic, racist pieces of sh1t who only know about 8 fighters all aligned with PBC, guys like Artman, Curtis Scoon and Ray Jackson, don't follow any or them but their constantly on my timeline, im being deadly serious when I say I've never encountered a single person in all my years on Boxrec whose as dumb as they 3 I've mentioned, proper spastics, guys like Crawford, Tank, Herring, Ellerbe and Clarissa will regularly engage with them as well, Britain's got plenty of fckwits as well of course but nowhere near as high % and they get treated with the contempt they deserve

Only in America eh

boxing twitter, boxing scene, youtube, and a few other places are basically non stop race warz. the level of worship there was for al haymon, someone never seen or heard from, is crazy. you even have black dudes hating on aj just because his promoter is white. it's too much of a headache for me to look at those places any more.

wilder is huge on those arseliicking pbc guys too. pretty much first thing he did after the parker fight was an hour long interview with one of them bascally rimming him clean. apparently he was the 'real' winner of the saudi arabia event, because when he lost it was obvious how happy aj was that he wouldnt have to fight wilder, and that somehow gave wilder a win over aj

[handsofstone]

The whole Inoue/Crawford debate on Twitter is getting right on my tits, every other tweet is someone belittling the others achievements to bolster their claim, who cares about foty and all that tackle anyway? Appreciating 1 doesn't automatically mean the other ones shite, fckn Americans mostly of course, considering they spawned the best fighters that ever lived their fan base is the thickest on the planet, especially the African American demographic, racist pieces of sh1t who only know about 8 fighters all aligned with PBC, guys like Artman, Curtis Scoon and Ray Jackson, don't follow any or them but their constantly on my timeline, im being deadly serious when I say I've never encountered a single person in all my years on Boxrec whose as dumb as they 3 I've mentioned, proper spastics, guys like Crawford, Tank, Herring, Ellerbe and Clarissa will regularly engage with them as well, Britain's got plenty of fckwits as well of course but nowhere near as high % and they get treated with the contempt they deserve

Only in America eh

boxing twitter, boxing scene, youtube, and a few other places are basically non stop race warz. the level of worship there was for al haymon, someone never seen or heard from, is crazy. you even have black dudes hating on aj just because his promoter is white. it's too much of a headache for me to look at those places any more.

wilder is huge on those arseliicking pbc guys too. pretty much first thing he did after the parker fight was an hour long interview with one of them bascally rimming him clean. apparently he was the 'real' winner of the saudi arabia event, because when he lost it was obvious how happy aj was that he wouldnt have to fight wilder, and that somehow gave wilder a win over aj

I seen that with Wilder, the guy interviewing him was pathetic and embarrassing, Ellerbe and Shields regularly use the race card disregarding the fact the she is a horrible person and Floyd and Tank are woman beating pieces of sh1t as well with a history of poor behavior but best not criticize them or we're racist, do me a favor, a cnt is a cnt whatever your skin colour, guys like Crawford, Haney or Shakur for instance don't hit woman or play the race card coz they get a bit of flak, seems to be a PBC thing, Jermell keeping the stereotype going, praise be Al

[1328613]

Are you guys sure about this? I was taught at university that only white males are racist.

This is a real shock.

[THEBUTCH]

Fortunately I avoid social media but the little I do become aware of seems to resonate with the above posts.

Both Inoue & Crawford are formidable boxers

Attempting to hoist one above the other by denigrating the one least favoured is daft.

The boxing world has two incredible athletes to be proud of and it would seem some numpties have to find a way to sour things

[SeanBrennan]

Fortunately I avoid social media but the little I do become aware of seems to resonate with the above posts.

Both Inoue & Crawford are formidable boxers

Attempting to hoist one above the other by denigrating the one least favoured is daft.

The boxing world has two incredible athletes to be proud of and it would seem some numpties have to find a way to sour things

Amen to that.

[margaret thatcher]

oof, hope anaguchi will be okay. . both guys were absolutely wrecked in that fight

Kazuki Anaguchi down four times, convulses before hospitalization

https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2023/12 ... onvulsing/

[Nightmare Roy]

Fortunately I avoid social media but the little I do become aware of seems to resonate with the above posts.

Both Inoue & Crawford are formidable boxers

Attempting to hoist one above the other by denigrating the one least favoured is daft.

The boxing world has two incredible athletes to be proud of and it would seem some numpties have to find a way to sour things

Amen to that.

Be telling our grandkids about these two.

[margaret thatcher]

anaguchi has undergone surgery for a brain bleed, no word about how surgery has gone

posters watching live noticed that neither guy looked right following their all out war. unfortunetly that turns out to be true for anaguchi.

[THEBUTCH]

Oh shit ! That video clip was harrowing

Hope the medics work their wonders on the poor fellow

[margaret thatcher]

unfortunetly anaguchi has passed away

the fight won fight of the year at the japan boxing awards and i know many of us enjoyed it here. i recall being edge of my seat giddy for it. it was such a great fight and made my day. but a devestating reminder that boxing is as serious as it gets the winner tsutsumi was badly punished and cut up and looking shakey himself after

rip young warrior