{"id":281807,"date":"2025-11-25T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:56:09","slug":"takuma-inoue-beats-tenshin-nasukawa-to-win-wbc-bantamweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281807\/","title":{"rendered":"Takuma Inoue beats Tenshin Nasukawa to win WBC bantamweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Takuma Inoue became the new WBC bantamweight world champion with a unanimous points win against Tenshin Nasukawa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inoue was awarded a 116-112, 116-112, 117-111 victory over his fellow Japanese fighter after 12 rounds in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair had both weighed in at 117.7 pounds to contest the belt vacated by Junto Nakatani, who has moved to super featherweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Takuma Inoue was accompanied to the ring by his brother Naoya Inoue, who is the undisputed super bantamweight world champion, and proved a convincing winner on the scorecards of the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were plenty of fiery exchanges between the two fighters as Inoue improved his record to 21 wins and two losses from 23 outings.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former kickboxer Nasukawa suffered his first defeat, having won his first seven boxing fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takuma Inoue became the new WBC bantamweight world champion with a unanimous points win against Tenshin Nasukawa. Inoue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-281807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}