Tapales, who won the unified world championship earlier this year, came out as the aggressor and attempted to slow Inoue down with a concerted. Naoya Inoue knocked out Marlon Tapales in 10 inouye vs tapales at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo to win the undisputed super-bantamweight title. Winning made. Marlon Tapales se atrevió adelantar que la pelea no se irá a la distancia: “Lo más probable es que alguien caiga. Será él o yo”. Inoue landed nearly three times the punches as Tapales -- to 52, according to CompuBox -- and connected 43% of his power shots. Inoue also.
As the Filipino southpaw waited for his opponent to initiate, Inoue caught him out. Up close he worked in a short right cross. In the second round, he tipped Tapales off balance with a jab, a hint at how dangerously effective the timing of Inoue's punches could be.
Inoue pressed Tapales back the ropes, swinging a right hook through in a blazing combination of punches. They opened up in the fourth round. Tapales did tag him with a flush cross, but that just prompted the Japanese fighter to increase his own punch output. Tapales wouldn't back off from the power punches coming his way. The Filipino aimed his right hook at the body and fired that same shot into the head.
Inoue simply replied with a hurtful combination. His left hook landed hard. He then unloaded a ferocious flurry and with another left hook, dropped Tapales with five seconds left in the round. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. Tapales set himself up to land great hooks. He was rising to the pressure.
But a countering right from Inoue punished a missed left hook and shook up Tapales. The Filipino stabilised in the mid-rounds, boxing well in the seventh and eighth as he adjusted his defences. Inoue had to respond to that and he did. He backed up a cross with another right, those hard punches finding their way through. Inouye vs tapales Inoue struck in another massive right.
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