Marlon Tapales

Marlon Tapales Returns To Winning Ways With First-Round Stoppage

The 10 Best Performances of Naoya Inoue

The impact that Naoya Inoue has made since turning professional a little under 12 years ago is startling, even more so when you attempt to rate his 10 finest performances.

Does Naoya Inoue Need U.S. Exposure To Validate His Greatness?

Naoya Inoue’s May 6 defense of his undisputed junior featherweight titles will be his sixth consecutive bout in his native Japan.

Tapales Returns On May 10 Following Boxing Day Defeat To Inoue

Tapales Returns On May 10 Following Boxing Day Defeat To Inoue

Inoue On Tapales Win: It Was One Of The Most Intense Fights I've Ever Had

This win might stand out among most of the rest in Naoya Inoue’s already storied career. The effort put forth by Marlon Tapales exceeded the name value he brought to his undisputed junior featherweight championship. Yokohama’s Inoue eventually found...

Photos: Naoya Inoue Takes Down Marlon Tapales in Ten To Become Undisputed

Inoue, Tapales Fight Photos Gallery - WBC/WBO junior featherweight world champion Naoya "The Monster" Inoue (26-0, 23 KOs) made history again. The Japanese pound-for-pound superstar knocked out Filipino IBF/WBA champion Marlon Tapales in round 10 to...

Naoya Inoue Adds Accolades: Weekend Afterthoughts

Naoya Inoue probably won’t be back in the ring until May. By then, he will have passed the ten-year anniversary of his first major title win, a knockout of Adrian Hernandez for the WBC light flyweight belt.

Naoya Inoue vs. Marlon Tapales - 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.

Naoya Inoue Next Fight Targeted For May, Likely WBC Mandatory Defense Versus Luis Nery

The victory lap will be brief. Naoya Inoue has already begun plans for his next fight, a conversation that already took place in the background ahead of his latest fight. The four-division champion became a freshly crowned undisputed king after a ten...

Naoya Inoue Twice Drops Marlon Tapales, Knocks Him Out In 10th In Historic Undisputed Championship Win In Tokyo

Naoya Inoue has created history. Again. The four-division titlist and high-ranking pound-for-pound earned his second undisputed championship in just more than a year after an eleventh-round knockout of the Philippines’ Marlon Tapales. Inoue scored tw...

Naoya Inoue-Marlon Tapales: Stats & Stakes

In 1976, the WBC brought back a division that only briefly and without much fanfare flared on the boxing scene in the early 1920s. In the space between bantamweight and featherweight, a class few likely were asking for became one of the most indispen...

Tapales: I Did Not Come To Japan Just To Give Inoue A Good Fight; I Came To Win

There is no intention to merely give it a go or dare to be great. Marlon Tapales is here to shock the world. That is the message that has been sent from the moment the 31-year-old Filipino southpaw set his sights on Naoya

Inoue: It Was A Bit Coincidental We Were Able To Land These Significant Fights One After The Other

Naoya Inoue has become familiar with making history for his native Japan. A supreme skillset—arguably the most talented fighter in the sport—has greatly enabled his pound-for-pound rise. Inoue freely admits, however, the recent run he’s enjoyed to re...

Akhmadaliev Hopes To Face Winner of Inoue Vs. Tapales: ‘I’m The Best Guy in The Division’

Former junior featherweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev desperately wants to rectify the lone loss of his career by taking on the winner of the upcoming undisputed 122-pound championship between Naoya Inoue and Marlon Tapales.

Tapales: I Am Ready To Beat Naoya Inoue, I Am Going To Knock Him Out

Marlon Tapales has insisted to anyone who will listen that he is not done with his upset tour. The reigning WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist has arrived in Tokyo for the biggest challenge of his fifteen-year pro career. Looming ahead for the 31-y...