
WBC bantamweight champion Takuma Inoue makes his second defense against Tenshin Nasukawa
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The two men faced each other in the same-class championship match last November, with Takuma Inoue winning by decision.
Four world professional boxing matches will be held at Toyota Arena Tokyo on the 27th, with World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight champion Takuma Inoue (Ohashi) defending his title for the second time against challenger Tenshin Nasukawa (Teiken). This is the rematch between the two men since Taku Inoue won by decision in the championship match in November last year. Before the match, Taku Inoue had 22 wins (5 KOs) and 2 losses, while Nasukawa had 8 wins (3 KOs) and 1 loss.
In the WBC super flyweight title deciding match, Tomoya Tsuboi (Teiken), who is competing for the world's first time in his fifth professional fight, will face Ricardo Malagica (South Africa). Ryosuke Nishida (Mutsushima) will face Sam Goodman (Australia) for the interim International Boxing Federation (IBF) super bantamweight title, while Ryusei Matsumoto (Teiken) will face Russell Acosta (Mexico) for the interim World Boxing Organization (WBO) minimumweight title.
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Four world boxing matches will be held at Toyota Arena Tokyo on the 27th.
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Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, who has won a total of 266 games in the US Major League Baseball, pitched for the final time as an active pitcher against the Pirates in his home base of Detroit, and pitched 5 1/3 innings, giving up two runs and striking out six, bringing his more than 20-year career to a close.

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