{"id":302805,"date":"2025-11-23T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:20:09","slug":"prodigy-nasukawa-former-mma-superstar-faces-inoue-for-wbc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302805\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prodigy&#8217; Nasukawa, former MMA superstar, faces Inoue for WBC title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">&#8216;First coronation&#8217; or &#8216;redemption arc fulfilled&#8217; &#8212; boxing world&#8217;s attention turns to all-Japanese matchup<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20251121 Tenshin Nasukawa\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Tenshin Nasukawa, left,\u00a0fights in a non-title match in June. The 27-year-old made his kickboxing debut at 15, and from 2016 to 2023\u00a0he was signed with RIZIN, where he competed in both kickboxing and MMA.\u00a0 \u00a9 Kyodo<\/p>\n<p>DAISUKE SUGIURA<\/p>\n<p>November 23, 2025 08:32 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; On Monday, Nov. 24, at Toyota Arena Tokyo, a highly anticipated all-Japanese boxing showdown is taking place as Tenshin Nasukawa faces Takuma Inoue for the vacant WBC bantamweight world title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports &#8216;First coronation&#8217; or &#8216;redemption arc fulfilled&#8217; &#8212; boxing world&#8217;s attention turns to all-Japanese matchup Tenshin Nasukawa, left,\u00a0fights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,54916,21694,24980,785,172852,45984,85,171338,8821,35276],"class_list":["post-302805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-faces","tag-former","tag-inoue","tag-mma","tag-nasukawa","tag-prodigy","tag-sports","tag-superstar","tag-title","tag-wbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}