Takuma Inoue is set to headline a packed card in Tokyo this weekend when he defends his WBA bantamweight title.
He will be facing the undefeated Seiya Tsutsumi who stopped Weerawat Noolae in July.
This main event will be one of four world title fights with Seigo Yuri Akui and Kenshiro Teraj set to defend their respective flyweight and light flyweight world title belts.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of Inoue vs. Tsutsumi.
- Date: Sunday, October 13
- Time: 9 a.m. UK / 4 a.m. ET
- Main event ringwalks (approx): 12 p.m. UK / 7 a.m. ET
The ringwalks for Inoue vs. Tsutsumi are scheduled for 12 p.m. UK / 7 p.m. ET with the event set to begin at 9 a.m. UK / 4 a.m. ET. These timings are subject to change.
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Tsutsumi is also 28 years old and enters the ring with a near-perfect mark of 11-2 with 8 Ko’s and has boxed 78 rounds since making his pro debut in 2018.
He measures just over 5-feet-5-inches tall with a 64.5-inch reach so is 1.5-inches taller than Inoue. As far as power is concerned.
Tsutsumi has quite a bit more than the champion as 72.7 per cent of his victories have come by way of stoppage including four of his past six.
The two blemishes on his record were two consecutive draws back in 2020. He went 10 rounds with Kazuki Nakajima in January and nine months later was held by former world champion Daigo Higa.
Tsutsumi won the Japanese Bantamweight Title in 2022 via an eighth-round TKO over Kyosuke Sawada and has defended the belt four times, twice by TKO and twice by unanimous decision.
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