{"id":518559,"date":"2026-03-06T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:19:07","slug":"takuma-inoue-vs-kazuto-ioka-leads-inoue-vs-nakatani-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518559\/","title":{"rendered":"Takuma Inoue vs Kazuto Ioka leads Inoue vs Nakatani undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brunchboxing.com\/post\/inoue-ioka-showdown-highlight-huge-inoue-nakatani-undercard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As revealed by Brunch Boxing earlier this week<\/a>, Takuma Inoue will lead the undercard for brother Naoya\u2019s May 2nd superfight against Junto Nakatani, battling four-division titlist Kazuto Ioka in the first defense of his second title reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Inoue (21-2, 5 KO) briefly held the interim WBC bantamweight title in 2018 before falling to Nordine Oubaali in a title consolidation. Five years later, he beat Liborio Solis for the vacant WBA belt, defending it three times but suffering an upset loss to Seiya Tsutsumi two Octobers ago. Undaunted, he toppled undefeated superstar Tenshin Nasukawa for the full WBC belt in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Credit for successfully calling his shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Other action sees former welterweight title challenger Jin Sasaki (20-2-1, 18 KO) take on fellow slugger Sora Tanaka (5-0, 5 KO), Toshioki Shimomachi (22-1-3, 12 KO) face Reiya Abe (28-4-2, 10 KO), and former champion Yoshiki Takei (11-1, 9 KO) start down the comeback trail in an eight-rounder against China\u2019s DeKang Wang (9-1, 3 KO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fun card. Hope they tell us gaijin how to watch it soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As revealed by Brunch Boxing earlier this week, Takuma Inoue will lead the undercard for brother Naoya\u2019s May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-518559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}