Don’t miss out on the live discussion of Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Inoue vs. Tapales on Tuesday, December 26 at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on ESPN+ in the U.S. The occasion will happen at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
The centerpiece functions WBC/WBO world champ Naoya “Monster” Inoue and WBA/IBF king Marlon Tapales in a face-off for the indisputable junior featherweight champion.
Inoue is seeking to end up being the 2nd guy, after Terence Crawford, to end up being a two-weight indisputable champ in the four-belt period.
Inoue boasts an excellent 20-0 record with 18 knockouts in world title battles, and he just recently made his junior featherweight launching by beating two-belt champ Stephen Fulton.
On the other hand, Tapales, a 15-year pro from the Philippines, won the WBO bantamweight world title in 2016 before going up to junior featherweight and scoring a huge upset split choice over Murodjon Akhmadaliev for the WBA and IBF world titles.
In addition to the centerpiece, there will be other streaming action on ESPN+, consisting of Seiya Tsutsumi vs. Kazuki Anaguchi for the Japanese Bantamweight Title, Andy Hiraoka vs. Sebastian Diaz Maldonado in the Junior Welterweight department, and Yoshiki Takei vs. Mario Diaz Maldonado in the Junior Featherweight department.
