Inoue and Tsutsumi. (Photograph by Naoki Fukuda)
All eight title battle individuals did their job on the scale.
Takuma Inoue is about for the third protection of his WBA bantamweight title. He’ll face countryman Seiya Tsutsumi atop Saturday’s quadrupleheader from Ariake Area in Tokyo. Inoue weighed proper on the 118-pound restrict, whereas Tsutsumi was 117 3/4 kilos for his first profession title problem.
Their scheduled twelve-round bout will air dwell on ESPN+.
Inoue (20-1, 5 KOs) claimed the WBA 118-pound title final April. He was the primary benefactor following the divisional departure of older brother and now four-division champion Naoya Inoue, who vacated all 4 bantamweight titles.
Takuma Inoue has slowly carved out his personal identify. The Ring’s No. 3-rated bantamweight impressed in a ninth-round knockout of former 115-pound titlist Jerwin Ancajas on Feb. 24 at Kokugikan Area in Tokyo. He then returned simply ten weeks later to affix Naoya on the Might 6 present at Tokyo Dome. His look resulted in a twelve-round win over countryman Sho Ishida.
Tsutsumi (11-0-2, 8 KOs) challenges for his first main title. It comes within the midst of a outstanding profession rebound following in-ring tragedy.
Whereas his report is ideal, Tsutsumi was compelled to absorb the harm inflicted upon Kazuki Anaguchi. Their brutal ten-round slugfest final Dec. 26 was received by Tsutsumi through unanimous determination. Anaguchi by no means recovered from mind accidents sustained within the bout and handed away in February.
Tsutsumi bravely moved ahead along with his profession. He scored a fourth-round knockout of Weerawat Noolae on July 7 at Kokugikan.
Within the co-feature, former RING junior flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji goals to develop into a two-division titlist. His try comes versus former flyweight titlist Cristofer Rosales for the vacant WBC flyweight title battle.
Teraji (23-1, 14 KOs) was 111 3/4 kilos, whereas Nicaragua’s Rosales (36-7, 22 KOs) was proper at 112 kilos.
Teraji loved two separate WBC 108-pound title reigns. The 32-year-old from Kyoto, Japan grew to become The Ring and unified WBC/WBA champ in Nov. 2022 after a seventh-round knockout of unbeaten countryman Hiroto Kyoguchi.
His ultimate protection got here in a Battle of the Yr-level majority determination win over Carlos Canizales (27-2-1, 19 KOs) on Jan. 23 in Osaka. Teraji ran his report ro 14-1 (9 KOs) in main title fights.
Nicaragua’s Rosales (36-7, 22 KOs) beforehand held the very title at stake in his bout. He claimed the title in Japan, when he defeated Daigo Higa in April 2018. Only one protection adopted earlier than he misplaced to Charlie Edwards later that December. A second title bid noticed Rosales undergo a ninth-round knockout to Julio Cesar Martinez in Dec. 2019.
Rosales has received 5 straight since a questionable defeat to Angel Ayala of their April 2022 IBF title eliminator.
Different weights:
- Okayama’s Seigo Yuri Akui (20-2-1, 11 KOs) and Thailand’s Thananchai Charunphak (25-1, 15 KOs) each weighed 112 kilos. Akui defends his WBA flyweight title
- Tokyo’s Shokichi Iwata (13-1, 10 KOs) and Spain’s Jairo Noriega (14-0, 3 KOs) have been each 108 kilos for his or her vacant WBO junior flyweight title battle.
