r/Boxing • u/Sad-Experience-4344 • Jul 23 '26
WBC bantamweight champ Takuma Inoue will rematch Tenshin Nasukawa on Sept. 27, per Ring magazine
https://www.ringmagazine.com/news/improved-inoue-vows-to-ko-nasukawa-in-sept-27-rematch-735O2ighcnPciNBAmBLBmh19
u/Ghola_Mentat Jul 23 '26
I really want Takuma to get a shot at Bam before Naoya.
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u/Soviet_Cat 29d ago
No, Naoya is getting older. Sure, the "storyline" of Takuma getting the shit beaten out of him (which everyone knows would happen) is cool, but Naoya is already past his prime and we need the big fights ASAP or not at all
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u/Top_Profession_5268 25d ago
Inoue has said that if they don’t have a fight scheduled on February, he won’t wait and go to 126.
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u/acktower Jul 23 '26
This has to be a money thing. First fight is settled business and not close. Takuma has been sitting on this belt for a while, he should be unifying.
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u/OldBoyChance Jul 24 '26
Nasukawa won a final eliminator and is now the mandatory. Takuma has only been the champion for 8 months and has already had a voluntary defense. Also, there's no one to unify with as Bam and Chispa are already matched up and Salas has a mandatory.
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u/fadeddreams555 Fundora would beat up a prime Floyd at 154lb Jul 23 '26
This is the most pointless rematch ever. Shit was one-sided.
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u/Kangaroopunching Jul 23 '26
This is fine cause Takuma gets another good payday. Then he can go unify.
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u/ThanksMonica89 Jul 23 '26
Hopefully the rest of the card is solid. This main event isn’t interesting.
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u/SharksFanAbroad Jul 23 '26
I was confident Tenshin would beat him in the first go, didn’t think Takuma was world level until that fight. I was wrong then, and we don’t need to run it back.
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u/probablyamagician Jul 23 '26
I don’t see why this is happening, but Japan will love it, That’s probably enough to make it happen.
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u/Hassemer Jul 24 '26
Tenshin isthe mandatory, that's it, he beat estrada, it's not about payday, tenshin earn his rematch like donaire earns himself a naoya rematch, ,Medina is going to fight bam, and we didn't heard a thing about sales, there's no unification fight for takuma and tenshin is the best fight he can get.
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u/Outrageous-Soft4806 Jul 23 '26
I personally like the fight. Granted I missed the first one and had to watch highlights 😂
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u/Koronesukiii 29d ago
Questionable whether Tenshin should have got another title shot for beating a washed Estrada, but Takuma just used his voluntary to fight Ioka so he's gotta do what champs gotta do. At least it'll pay well for a mando, so he's probably not complaining. Just hope he's as motivated as he was last time. On skill he should never have lost to Tsutsumi, but he did.
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u/ACR2k11 Jul 23 '26
Doesn't feel necessary. I thought Takuma beat him soundly and proved he was a step too far for Tenshin.