Inoue vs Tapales Running Order Fight Date, UK Time, Undercard, TV Channel, Ring Walks And MORE
- Naoya Inoue Looks To Become A Two-Division Undisputed Champion In Japan
- Inoue Stopped Fulton In 7 Rounds In July & Now Faces Unified Champ Tapales
- All The Details For Inoue vs Tapales As The Boxing Year Closes On The P4P #2
The WBC/WBO champion Naoya Inoue clashes with WBA/IBF titleist Marlon Tapales in a four-belt unification fight to establish the undisputed super bantamweight king.
Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs), widely regarded as P4P #2 in world boxing, has already held the undisputed title at the weight below and a win for him on Tuesday, December 26 sees him join Terence Crawford in becoming the second two-weight undisputed champion in the four-belt era of men’s boxing – Oleksandr Usyk will try and become the third on Feb 17 in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia.
Japan’s Inoue returns to the Ariake Arena in Tokyo where he scored a stunning 8th-round knockout of Stephen Fulton to claim the unified title. Many experts were picking Fulton to give Inoue a hard night’s work, if not beat him, but the ‘Monster’ showed his class with a completely dominant performance just four days before Crawford delivered an equally spectacular win over Errol Spence in Las Vegas.
Tapales has in many ways landed the Golden Ticket as a fight with Inoue comes with huge financial rewards. The Filipino edged a razor-tight win over a stale Murodjon Akhmadaliev to win his two belts in April. The majority are picking Inoue to make quick work of Tapales but we are just days removed from a major upset and Tapales will be hoping to deliver a second on Boxing Day.
Inoue vs Tapales Undercard, Running Order
- OPENER: Yoshiki Takei vs. Mario Diaz Maldonado
- Andy Hiraoka vs. Sebastian Diaz Maldonado
- Seiya Tsutsumi vs. Kazuki Anaguchi
- MAIN EVENT: Naoya Inoue vs. Marlon Tapales
Inoue vs Tapales UK Time, TV Channel, Main Event Ring Walks
The broadcast is scheduled to begin at 8 am UK time on Sky Sports with main event ring walks expected for 10:55 am UK time.
US fans can catch the card in the early hours of Tuesday morning (3 am ET/12 am PT) on ESPN + with main event ring walks set for 5:55 am ET/2:55 am PT.
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