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00:00I'm gonna receive my instructions in the dressing room, protect yourselves at all time, touch your gloves now, you're boxing at the bell. God bless your vote, man.
00:16And here is your tale of the take for the main event. Attention, Nasakawa, Takuma, in a way you see the measurables, very much in favor of attention in this one as we are underway.
00:30The crowd has been fired up for this one. You see the symbolism all over the appearance of Tenshin Nasakawa. He loves to do stuff like that. The gold attire, the gold winning gloves, obviously a reference to what he wants around his waist.
00:51The blonde hair this time out. Last time, Morgan, you pointed out it was black. That was an ode to the Aikichi Yazawa song, Painted Black.
01:00This time, it's in reference to Dragon Ball Z, and he is promising, in his words, a super-dimensional performance here tonight.
01:08The thing we've become accustomed to with Tenshin Nasakawa is super dimensions every time he comes out. This is a guy fairly new to boxing. This is only his eighth pro bout, has a high starting point, obviously, but has improved every time out he shows us a dimension, a new wrinkle that he didn't show us before.
01:29So last time out we had Victor Santijan. Could he box against the southpaw? Yes. But he also showed us that he could fight on the inside. He showed us head movement that we had never seen from him before.
01:40He showed us an ability to use his footwork, not just to expand the ring, but to find angles to fight on the inside.
01:46So now, Takuma Inoue's problem is that preparing to fight a guy like Tenshin Nasakawa, the guy you look at on video, the guy you prepare for, is not necessarily the guy you're going to fight, because he's still adding new tools to his toolbox every time else.
02:04Tenshin trying to step in with the left hand. For Inoue, the key for him in this fight, to put it plainly, is just focus.
02:11He admitted that in that Tsutsumi fight, that his mind was in a million different places. As I referenced, he considered retirement afterwards, but with the magnitude of this fight, with all the attention surrounding it, if Inoue can't be focused tonight, then it is the end of the road.
02:29Yeah. Watching the Tsutsumi fight now, it's, you're not inside inside that night. Tenshin lands the left hand and tries to land another way.
02:41But the Tsutsumi fight turned when Tsutsumi, at some point, look at that crisp, straight right hand from Inoue, when Tsutsumi came forward and cranked up the punch ball, and he changed gears, and Inoue could not go with him.
02:56That was inside the final 30 seconds here of round one. Nice response from Inoue, about 20 seconds ago with that right hand. Otherwise, a few moments that have existed in this opening round and belong to Tenshin.
03:13Step it left hook there from Inoue. A right hand in a quiet round like this. Oh, big left hand might have erased those memories in the judges' minds. Immediately, what a shot from Tenshin, and he is jacked up going to the corner.
03:34両選手の経歴、戦績をご紹介いたします。
03:37赤コーナー、那須川天心、定研事務所属。
03:41今年は、18年9月、18日生まれの 27歳、千葉県松戸市出身。
03:47デビュー、2023年4月、B級プロデビュー。
03:51BQ Pro Deビュー
04:21And just at the tail end of the first round, Corey,
04:25again, we talked about the new things
04:26that tension showed us every time out.
04:28We have not seen that type of overhand left from him before.
04:31Usually, we're used to him throwing it straight.
04:33We're used to him throwing it as an uppercut.
04:35But overhand like that, that's new.
04:37It's something that he alluded to
04:39in talking to the press earlier this week.
04:43Especially when talking about
04:44that unconventional approach that he can have sometimes.
04:48He said, there are other ways of doing things.
04:50There are other ways of looking at things.
04:52But in terms of his improvements,
04:54he described it as what was rough before has become rounded.
04:58He smoothed out some of those edges.
05:02And as rough as Inoue wants to make this fight right now,
05:06it's the smoothness of tension that is winning this fight.
05:15Yeah, coming into this fight,
05:17what I didn't know was how
05:19tension would deal with a guy with
05:22Takuma Inoue's boxing IQ.
05:25He's a great way to land that left hook
05:27as a lead, as a counter.
05:28You're going to land that right hand to the body.
05:31What we're seeing so far is
05:32big hook there from tension.
05:35That one knocked Inoue on his heels.
05:37That's what we're seeing so far.
05:38The speed, power, accuracy
05:41from tension, Nasekawa.
05:46And this advanced ability to use his feet
05:48to get himself in position
05:49to land these punches.
05:59Nasekawa razor sharp here in the early going.
06:02Even this is not unfamiliar territory
06:09for Takuma Inoue.
06:11You know, one of his special attributes,
06:14his father, Shingo Inoue,
06:17talked about this.
06:18He said,
06:18when Takuma flips the switch,
06:21it can be special.
06:22And that's something we've seen out of it.
06:23We saw it in that win over Shoeshida
06:25where there are tough moments
06:27and there's a noticeable
06:28pushing of the button
06:30where Inoue turns on.
06:32Another nice sharp left hand there
06:34from tension.
06:34We even saw it
06:35in his loss against Nordinu Bali
06:38which looked wide on the scorecards
06:40but there was that moment
06:41where Inoue decided
06:43it was going to become a dogfight.
06:45The question is,
06:46can he get out of some of this early danger
06:48to take that so in our main event?
06:51Can he make this a dogfight
06:52and can he hit Tenshin Nasakawa
06:57hard enough to make Tenshin Nasakawa
06:58think twice about all these things he's doing?
07:01Because the reality is
07:01that neither of these guys
07:02has a ton of knockouts on the record.
07:05And so we don't know
07:06if either of them
07:08has the one-punch power
07:09to alter the other guy's game plan.
07:14It's left hand.
07:16And Nasakawa aiming that at the body
07:19in a way kind of ducked into it
07:20and lands nonetheless.
07:22Seconds tick away
07:25and another excellent round
07:27for Tenshin Nasakawa.
07:43It is Nasakawa
07:44taking two, three,
07:47four shuffle steps in.
07:48Again, the footwork
07:50is so precise.
07:53And he unleashed the first time
07:55with that uppercut
07:56and the right hook.
07:58One more of the ways
07:59that he's been able to beat
08:00Takuma in the way
08:02to the punch so far.
08:02and the speed of the night
08:10and the speed of power.
08:15Sankai Man, now round three.
08:24Round three begins.
08:29Benchit Nasakawa in just his eighth professional fight, buying the WBC World Vantamweight title.
08:38Here tonight against Takuma Inoue, a name and a family that has kind of moved over tension
08:46and all fighters anywhere in this weight neighborhood in this country for a long time.
08:56Nasakawa, one of the few stars in Japan that can match the wattage of the brother of Takuma Inoue.
09:07He lands a beautiful lead jab there.
09:13We talked about Nasakawa jumping right into the deep end, but he's been insistent, you know, in his words,
09:20he said, I haven't, I haven't skipped any grades.
09:23Right.
09:24I've been doing this by building my skills.
09:27Whether he skipped grades or not, he definitely skipped all the classes and aced the advance.
09:32Yes, exactly.
09:33Because he's moving fast.
09:34It doesn't matter if he skipped grades or not.
09:37Corey, when I went to high school, we took Spanish class and there were some kids.
09:40There was a girl in the class from Argentina.
09:42And she came in, she walked in speaking better Spanish than any of us.
09:45Did she skip grades?
09:46No.
09:47She walked in, started at a very high school level, and this is what Tenshin Nasakawa is doing.
09:52As we've discussed in past fights, he is a martial artist, he is fluent in many pugilistic languages.
10:04So it's not a matter of him skipping grades, skipping phases of his development.
10:08He is a martial artist at heart.
10:12This is his latest martial art.
10:13And this is how he treats it.
10:15The one thing we noticed towards the end of that last round is a lot more showboating,
10:24which we usually don't see from Tenshin when he's, as his level of opposition improves.
10:35Step in left hook there from Inouye.
10:37Grazed the shoulder of Nasakawa.
10:39We got there nonetheless.
10:40What we've also seen from Inouye this round, Corey, is that he's decided that he's going to move forward,
10:45and he's decided that more often than not he's going to be first.
10:49And he's had more success this round.
10:52The left hook connects there from Inouye.
10:54Places the right hand to the body.
10:57Is this potentially that switch-flipping moment that we talked about with Inouye?
11:03Has he realized early in this fight that there aren't rounds to give away
11:07Yes.
11:08Against this version of Nasakawa that is looking confident.
11:13His footwork is gliding.
11:16Isn't space to let this fight slip away.
11:20Inouye picking up the pace here in the third.
11:22Completely different demeanor from Inouye this round.
11:25The final return.
11:26This year is the last round of inouye.
11:28I will be passing by A.
11:29There will be a second round of inouye.
11:30Withouye and a second round of inouye.
11:32The next round of inouye number.
11:34The now going toouye number one two.
11:35The second round.
11:48Thank you very much.
12:18Yonkai-wee.
12:21Now round four.
12:27Round four now underway.
12:33See that forward momentum?
12:35Yes.
12:36Picking up a little bit more here from Inouye.
12:39You know, perhaps, Morgan, there's a through line to be drawn here
12:43between a fight we called earlier this year as Inouye lands
12:46a blistering right hand over the top.
12:49Of course, tension has long been rivals with Yoshifi Takei.
12:53There have been kickboxing parallels.
12:56There have been fights rumored between the two of them.
13:00When he fought Christian Medina, not that long ago,
13:04there was a moment when Medina decided this isn't going to be
13:07a tidy cooperative fight.
13:09And it all came crumbling down for Takei.
13:12Is that potentially a blueprint for Inouye here tonight?
13:15To do a similar type of thing to tension.
13:18Well, again, rounds three and four have looked different
13:20from rounds one and two.
13:21And tension and Takuma Inouye has decided
13:24he's going to make this ring small.
13:26More often than not, he's going to be first.
13:28You saw really early in the round,
13:30Tenshin Nasakawa try to sneak that lead hand uppercut in.
13:33And you saw Takuma Inouye saw it coming.
13:36And he blocked it.
13:37And so he is dialed in a bit more on Tenshin Nasakawa's rhythm
13:43and his timing to counterbalance that speed right there.
13:47Hard left hand to the body from Tenshin,
13:50but a better right hand in reply from Takuma Inouye.
13:54So you saw two examples of it there.
13:57Right back to back.
13:58The tension with that blinding speed,
14:00but Inouye's a little bit more ready for it now.
14:03Even though he's not quite as fast,
14:05he's dialed in the timing.
14:07Perhaps that right hand from Inouye,
14:21which now seems to be triggered by those left hands.
14:24Yes.
14:25To the body from Tenshin.
14:27Perhaps that will make Nasakawa hesitate a little bit
14:30when it comes to one of his signature shots.
14:32You see Nasakawa trying to throw that right hand
14:34over the top now.
14:35Which might be one way of stopping...
14:40Look at the lead hook there.
14:41Might be one way of stopping Inouye from...
14:44Throwing that right hand every time Nasakawa tries to go to the bottom.
14:48As we saw with that lead right hand from Tenshin a moment ago.
14:53Has the kind of talent that can get him out of problems,
14:58but also a level of talent that allows you to make mistakes.
15:02Yes.
15:03Yes.
15:05And you don't pay for them until you pay for them.
15:08There's that left hand to the body.
15:10Has to step in with a right hook as well.
15:13In a way there to meet him.
15:15As we head back to the corners.
15:16As we head back to the corners.
15:30Is that left hand to the body, Corey?
15:31Like a reflex.
15:32Like a push button.
15:33Right hand up top in return.
15:37Nice.
15:38Nice.
15:39Nice.
15:40Nice.
15:41Nice.
15:42Nice.
15:43Nice.
15:44Nice.
15:45Nice.
15:46Nice.
15:47Nice.
15:48Nice.
15:49Nice.
15:50Nice.
15:51Nice.
15:52Nice.
15:53Nice.
15:54Nice.
15:56Nice.
15:57Nice.
15:58Nice.
15:59Nice.
16:00Nice.
16:01Nice.
16:02Nice.
16:03Nice.
16:04Nice.
16:06Nice.
16:07Nice.
16:08Nice.
16:09Nice.
16:10Nice.
16:14Nice.
16:15Nice.
16:16Nice.
16:17Nice.
16:18Nice.
16:20Nice.
16:21Nice.
16:22Play now with the judges.
16:25Nice.
16:30»
16:38So we do know that all of the judges have this fight dead even,
16:4238-38 after four rounds.
16:44Which tracks with what we saw,
16:47which was one Inoue for rounds one and two
16:50and a different Inoue for rounds three and four,
16:53if we're talking about him flipping switches.
16:57Body shot there from Inoue,
16:59and that strayed a little bit too low
17:02for the liking of referee Michael Griffin.
17:05What we've seen now, Corey, is two things.
17:08We've seen Inoue just another decision he seems to have made
17:11is he's just going to mirror Tenshin's footwork,
17:14and Tenshin is not just going to take a walk.
17:17He's not going to make circles around the ring.
17:19He's not going to expand the ring with his footwork.
17:20Wherever he goes, Inoue said, I'm going to be right there.
17:23You saw early in this round Inoue throwing these hooks,
17:26which kind of stopped that counterclockwise motion
17:30from Tenshin Masahawa.
17:34We haven't seen the counterclockwise motion since then.
17:38Nice right hand right down the pipe there from Inoue.
17:42And another one, no reaction from Nasakawa, no shots.
17:49Excellent timing from Inoue.
17:51Remember, Nasakawa got some very valuable experience
18:10in that decision win over Jason Maloney,
18:13but this is a different magnitude of event.
18:19And I think a different level of boxing IQ.
18:25Tanglement there as Inoue tried to step in
18:28upon the front foot of Nasakawa.
18:30Nasakawa staying in punching range.
18:46A lot more here in the fifth round.
18:52Because he's recognized, too,
18:53that he's not able to get on his bike like he usually is.
18:57But Inoue is committed
19:05to forcing this fight to happen,
19:09to unfold at a closer range
19:11than Nasakawa would like to.
19:14So now it's on Nasakawa to adjust from here.
19:17Second's tickling away here in the fifth.
19:25The geography of this fight has changed radically.
19:28Jam-packed proud
19:43here at the Toyota Arena.
19:45Proud to this point.
19:55The chance that we have heard
19:56have actually been for Inoue
19:58as popular as Tenshin is,
20:00a man who's sold out the Tokyo Dome
20:02in the past,
20:03obviously in a different discipline.
20:06Fans really getting behind Takuma Inoue
20:08as we look back at some of his handiwork right now.
20:11And again, you see Inoue
20:13using his footwork to create a lane
20:17to land that straight right.
20:19There's tension using his superior length
20:21to land a straight right.
20:22Round six.
20:29Round six begins.
20:34Takuma Inoue said he did not want his career
20:37to end after that loss
20:39to Seiya Satsumi.
20:41Despite the thoughts about it that he had,
20:44felt like he needed it to come back
20:46and erase that memory.
20:51Chopping left hand there from Tenshin
20:52as Inoue continues to pick up the tempo
20:57and dare Nasakawa to match it.
21:01Right, and it's interesting, too,
21:06that difference between speed and tempo,
21:08speed and rhythm.
21:10Because Nasakawa clearly has the superior speed.
21:14Takuma Inoue cannot match that,
21:16but to your point, Corey,
21:17Takuma Inoue has picked up the tempo,
21:20picked up the rhythm of this fight
21:21and wants to see if Tenshin Nasakawa
21:24can match that.
21:25Yeah, that's a good point.
21:26I think another way of putting it
21:27is in boxing, you can be fast
21:29or you can work fast.
21:29Yes, and sometimes they produce
21:31the same results.
21:32Right.
21:35Nasakawa tries to back Inoue up
21:37with that left hand.
21:39Just increasingly since rounds,
21:41the beginning of round three,
21:43Takuma Inoue has found a lane
21:46for that straight right hand.
21:47Has the shorter arms,
21:48but is effective enough with the jab,
21:51like right there,
21:52to keep Nasakawa thinking.
21:53Yes.
21:59Body shot again there from Tenshin.
22:09The thing we do see in these exchanges,
22:12and frankly, it's what makes
22:13Nasakawa entertaining as well,
22:16there isn't a tremendous amount
22:18of head movement in his game,
22:19and that's not shocking,
22:21coming from a fairly recent
22:23kickboxing convert.
22:24When we talk about this all the time,
22:31head movement doesn't necessarily
22:33help a kickboxing.
22:34You lean into a head kick
22:36and your night's over.
22:36Nasakawa missing over the top.
22:55That comes Inoue
22:56with another one of those sharp right hands,
22:57making two of them.
22:59Yeah, now you're starting to see
23:00for all of Nasakawa's speed,
23:02again,
23:03hard right hand,
23:05that's three in a row,
23:06and two uppercuts
23:07with the right hand.
23:09Tenshin with no answer
23:10for the right hand of Inoue
23:12here in this round.
23:13All of Tenshin's speed,
23:15Inoue starting at the time,
23:17he got underneath that
23:18big left hand from Tenshin,
23:21landed three or four
23:22big right hands of his own.
23:23at the time in his own.
23:26He's going to the other hand from Sankawa.
23:27He's going to the left hand from Sankawa.
23:32You're good.
23:33Nice.
23:33Come over.
23:34Come over.
23:35Come over, Isakawa.
23:36I'm sorry.
23:38I'm sorry.
23:41I'm sorry.
23:43Takumi Renewe, again, with the shorter arms, but using that jab,
23:46sort of a half push jab, to line Tenshin Nasakawa up for that roundhouse fight.
23:53You saw as that round went on.
23:56These left hands that connected earlier don't connect quite so early from Nasakawa.
24:02But Inoue can still find that opening for his right hand and deliver it.
24:12Tenshin Nasakawa hasn't quite figured out yet how to make Takumi Inoue miss those right hands.
24:21Now round seven.
24:27The question now is can he figure out a way?
24:31Obviously as we describe Tenshin's journey from kickboxing and MMA to boxing, that is unique.
24:40But Takumi Inoue is very familiar with the position that Tenshin is in as the guy trying to fast track.
24:47Yes.
24:48With the guy who's young in his career, but fans are asking for world title shots.
24:54When Inoue was just two fights into his pro career, the Japanese media started talking about the potential of him becoming the fastest world champion ever.
25:03A breaking Sunset concerns record.
25:06But what he found out is something that Tenshin is figuring out here tonight.
25:10Yes.
25:11There are lessons that you're going to learn along the way that you don't know about yet.
25:14Yes.
25:15That's not to say that Nasakawa can't win this fight, but he's going to have to learn those lessons and adapt quickly.
25:20That's the thing.
25:21And lessons you can only learn in competition for everything you've done in the gym.
25:28And what, you know, one of the questions that hangs over this fight is Nasakawa's ability to adapt and adjust one or two or three times in a fight the way you have to at the world class level.
25:41Because people, as we're seeing right now, from Inoue, catch on so quickly to what you do.
25:46Two straight right hands, again.
25:50.
26:00.
26:09There's a good sharp left hand that connects from tension.
26:19Here, there's an example for you.
26:21That first left hand landed, the second one didn't.
26:24This is how quickly Tsukuma Inoue is making adjustments in real time.
26:28Inoue, he lands the right hand once, he can land it twice, he can land it three times.
26:32There it is, there's that right hand again, and maybe a little frustration there from Nasakawa.
26:37Ah, hand under the chin of Inoue, and he'll be worn by Michael Griffin.
26:43Although that's perfectly legal in Muay Thai, Corey, that's how you break a coach.
26:46That is correct.
26:53Obviously a clash of styles, but on a more granular level, just a clash of ideas of what footwork looks like.
27:00Yes.
27:01Just these small incremental steps that Inoue is using to line up that right hand.
27:07Contrasted with the more free-flowing athletic approach of Nasakawa as he lands that left hand in the body.
27:17That's been the money shot for him throughout his career.
27:22Again, Inoue, back he comes with that right hand over the top, and that'll be the final shot of the round.
27:30Thank you very much.
28:00Thank you very much.
28:30Almost without attention, Nasakawa noticing it.
28:33And next thing you know, he's set up there.
28:34He's landing punches.
28:37And Nasakawa is the one with longer arms.
28:38Nasakawa would prefer to keep this at a range where he can land and Inoue can't.
28:44Step in left hand there from Inoue.
28:46Another pair of right hands.
28:48One up top, one to the body.
28:49A reminder that at the end of this round, we will get an update on the WBC's open scoring.
29:01Yes.
29:09In a way, a little more active with that lead hand this round.
29:12And I think that's a Takuma chant.
29:14I think we've got some dueling chants here right now.
29:19Nice uppercut on the inside there from Nasakawa.
29:39A lot of it back comes Inoue.
29:41Yeah, and that's the other thing we're noticing on the inside from Inoue.
29:44Is that that's sort of one of the themes tonight is that Inoue in these exchanges, even when tension is landing, Inoue is getting the last win.
29:52And we'll know in a few, in about two minutes, how that's going over with the judges.
29:59Inoue looks to become world champion again.
30:03Perhaps a little continuity on the night for Inoue.
30:09We'll take a tumble there.
30:16Of course, one of Inoue's mentors, Chairman Ohashi, he also regained.
30:22He won a world title in his 23rd professional fight when he defeated Hee Young Choi back in 1992.
30:35Inoue leading with the hook, starting with the hook and finishing with the hook.
30:41Inoue maybe trying to bait tension in here.
30:47Indeed he was.
30:48That was voluntary positioning from Inoue there with his back against the ropes.
30:55Nasakawa does not take the bait, but he does land a good sharp left hand right there.
31:09Nasakawa starting to add in a few more foot feints here.
31:11Nasakawa is making this footwork game a little more complicated for Inoue.
31:18Nasakawa is making this footwork game a little more complicated for Inoue.
31:19As I say that, he steps in with a big sweeping right hand.
31:23Nasakawa is making this footwork game a little more complicated for Inoue.
31:24Nasakawa is making this footwork game a little more complicated for Inoue.
31:31Here we will be again, the final round of the race will be completed.
31:37The final round of the race will be completed.
31:42Please wait for the final round of the race.
31:46Here is the final round of the final round of the final round of the final round.
32:04Judge 1, but 1,'s 76 vs 76.
32:09Judge 1, who could be 77 vs 75.
32:13Judge 1, who could be 78 vs 74.
32:16Now, violence 2-0
32:18I don't know if Takuma's in series of this.
32:24Now round nine!
32:33So back to action here, we're just getting word
32:36of the translation of the open scoring for you.
32:4076-76 on one card, on the other two cards.
32:4377-75 and 78-74 for Takuma Inoue.
32:48Which sort of tracks with what we have been seeing
32:51since Inoue sort of made that decision at the top of round three
32:55to start bringing this fight to Tenshin Nasakawa
32:58instead of fighting at a distance.
33:02Tenshin almost having to tap into his takedown defense there.
33:05Right.
33:06They're both winning some rounds, but Inoue is winning more of them.
33:09Listen, we don't want to turn the broadcast
33:16into a, you know, a litigation of open scoring,
33:19but here you see one of the situations
33:22where both fighters explicitly understand
33:26the desperation of the situation, where they're at.
33:31Well, also, I mean, this argument against open scoring
33:35that the fighter who's ahead
33:36is just going to put it in cruise control
33:38does not hold water because if you are winning a fight,
33:41like a competitive fight like this one,
33:43what incentive do you have for them to go out
33:45and just start losing rounds?
33:46You don't, if you have a comfortable lead,
33:48you want to keep it comfortable.
33:49You don't want to play with that margin
33:51and make a, uh, a wide decision closely.
33:55And here's Takuma Inoue.
33:56He knows he's winning the fight,
33:58but that's different from thinking you have to fight one.
34:00And here he is. He's still on the front foot.
34:07One of the things he's been able to do consistently
34:09is just catch Tenshin leaning into the short right hand,
34:13whether he throws it straight or roundhouse.
34:16Tenshin moves forward at the waist
34:18and catches the right hand of the forehead.
34:21Quick hooks on the inside there from Inoue
34:23and then one to the body.
34:24And the other thing that Inoue understands
34:26is, yeah, he has a wider lead on one of the score cards
34:29as he lands another sweeping right hand there.
34:31But it's dead even on one.
34:33Yes.
34:34And a two-point card on the other.
34:36That means that this lead is very, very tenuous.
34:39Absolutely.
34:42Comes Tenshin with a left hand
34:44that bounces off the forehead of Inoue.
34:48Outside 40 seconds here in round nine.
35:01And there he is again.
35:02Just catches Tenshin lurching forward.
35:06Tenshin finds a way to fall back in this fight.
35:18Or will Inoue become world champion once again?
35:24Misses with that counter right hand
35:26and that will do it for the round.
35:54Yeah!
35:56Nice!
35:58Nice!
36:01How many times do you think?
36:02Yeah!
36:05I'm going to go further, just a point of time.
36:07Let's take a look.
36:08I'm going to go straight to the left side.
36:11I'm going to go straight and don't do it.
36:13I'm going to go straight.
36:15I'm going to go straight.
36:17I'm going to go straight.
36:20Now...
36:22high drama here in tokyo from what we know about the scorecards at the end of round eight this is
36:35still a winnable fight for either man on the scorecards and both men still throwing bombs
36:42here in the late rounds
36:44but if you attention nasakawa you have to find a way not to get hit with those straight right
36:51hands but also to get back to landing your left hand more consistently the way you were in rounds
36:58one and two but the fact that that's become such a challenge for tension nasakawa is a testament
37:05again to takuma inouye's his ability his ring iq his ability to adjust on the front
37:12sharp right hand down the middle there from inouye
37:16nasakawa talked about seeing new angles seeing things in sparring that he hasn't seen before
37:26new reference wanting to become more fluid
37:28wonder if at this point morgan does he need more of that of finding more angles or is this
37:37a situation where he doesn't need to be more fluid this is about getting rigid biting down
37:42and just trying to outman takuma inouye the final three rounds because he has to have he has to use
37:48the tools that are available to him and as anyone that's learning something as you learn this thing
37:54it starts to slow down for you and that's a good thing that's i think that's what he's getting at
37:59he says he's starting to see new angles and sparring but putting that to the test putting that into use
38:06in real time against a guy as good as takuma inouye is something different
38:09yeah when you're under duress as he's been here against inouye you revert to what you what you know
38:17the best right and to call right and to call back to the to the co-main event you know the the one
38:24thing that could get either guy back into the fight that could get nasakawa back into the fight
38:31would be if he had that type of one punch power
38:34see tension looking for that leaping lead uppercut but instead got caught by another
38:42right hand from inouye who by and large is sticking to the basics yes in the face of tension's
38:50creativity because the leaping lead uppercut works against guys who are not as good as not as smart
38:55as not as composed as takuma inouye is
38:58even that really showy lead hand uppercut
39:12takuma inouye has not been there to take that punch
39:15getting some answers here in this round as far as what tension will do he's digging a little deeper
39:22in his bag offensively
39:24will it be enough to put rounds in the back
39:28like
39:30the
39:32the
39:35the
39:37the
39:42the
39:44the
39:46the
39:50the
39:52Now, Corey, we can hear Shingo, in a way, is really worked up, but Takuma is very calm.
40:12It's a dialogue in the corner.
40:14One guy is shouting and the other guy is talking.
40:22Round 11, and if Shingo was worried about if and when Takuma would flip that switch that we referenced, that hasn't been a concern here tonight.
40:38He hit it early, and it is certainly on right now, and this fight is on in the center of the ring.
40:45And Corey, it's not, these fights are not carbon coffees of each other at all, but sort of what it reminds me of is Prince Nassim Ahmed versus Marco Antonio Barrera back in the day,
40:58in the sense that you had one guy that's super creative, and he throws these punches that no one's ever seen before.
41:04And you have another guy that has such a firm grasp of the basics and the fundamentals, and he imposes that and works from there.
41:13And Nassikawa, so you see Nassikawa gesturing, clowning, well not clowning, but gesturing,
41:19and trying to sort of play off the fact that he's getting the worst end of most of these exchanges.
41:26Because while he's gesturing, Takuma Inoue is still, not only landing punches, but dictating the tempo and the distance that this fight is taking place in.
41:41Losing is not a familiar feeling for Tension Nassikawa, who didn't lose as a pro kickboxer, has not lost as a pro boxer.
42:01The losses for Tension happened way back in amateur kickboxing, and of course in that exhibition against Floyd Mayweather.
42:09In any other circumstance, Tension has always found a way to win.
42:15And he may be in a situation now, and there's good reason to believe from what we know about the scorecards at the end of round eight,
42:23that he has four minutes to figure out a way to not lose here tonight.
42:29Yeah, and you saw Tension for about 15 seconds switch orthodox.
42:36Which might be a sign of frustration.
42:39A sign that he's not sure what will work, so he's trying to see what might work.
42:50He's right there, there's left hands.
42:52Inoue's seeing them now, he's blocking them.
42:54Rounds one and two, those left hands are landing.
42:56He's going to stumble there for Midaway, but he makes the most of it with his back against the ropes.
43:05Yeah, and you saw him.
43:06Two of those solid right hands.
43:07You saw him, before he landed those two right hands, he got underneath of Nassikawa's left hand.
43:13And if you're Nassikawa, that has to be really frustrating.
43:15Because every fight up until now, the person who's been there on the receiving end of that left hand.
43:25Three minutes to go.
43:27One more time.
43:45All right.
43:46Let's go ahead and return.
43:48Let's go ahead and ping.
43:51I'm going to keep it going.
43:56I'm going to do it.
44:00Do thelly then.
44:03Let's go ahead and push this forward.
44:08earlier this week
44:29Takuma Inoue said
44:31I want to enjoy every minute
44:33of this fight
44:35and when you talk about demeanors in this fight
44:37in the first two rounds
44:39it was Tenshin who was looking playful
44:41looking confident
44:42those roles have reversed
44:45well
44:51one of the things that
44:53Seitasumi did against Takuma Inoue
44:55that Tenshin Nasakawa has not been able to do
44:58is just come forward
44:59close the distance, crank up the volume
45:01that's not the type of fighter
45:04Tenshin Nasakawa is
45:06and it's one of the reasons he's not been able to
45:08regain the initiative in this fight
45:11this tight, solid, technically proficient approach
45:22has not given
45:25Nasakawa the openings
45:27that he hoped to create
45:28or he hoped would present themselves
45:31Inoue lands another right hand to the body
45:34back comes Nasakawa
45:35with some body work of his own
45:36Nasakawa taking a peek up at the clock
45:40which is his worst enemy at the moment
45:43Right, and for reasons we've discussed before
45:47because Nasakawa
45:48neither of these guys
45:49is a one-punch knockout guy
45:51and as the fight continues
45:54and this lead sort of accrues
45:56this lead on the scorecard accrues
45:59for Takuma Inoue
46:02Tenshin Nasakawa's in a bind
46:04because he's not
46:05Nikito Nakano
46:06Nikito Nakani
46:08he cannot depend on one punch
46:10to get himself back in the fight
46:13give himself a 10-8 round
46:14Now it's Inoue
46:22showing a little bravado
46:23just inviting Nasakawa
46:26to come get him in the corner
46:27less than a minute remaining
46:30in this contest
46:31And then you see Corey
46:53in a high leverage moment
46:55Tenshin Nasakawa
46:57is trying to unleash
46:59these video game punches
46:59but again
47:00against the guy
47:01with Takuma Inoue's ring IQ
47:03and the confidence
47:04he's showing right now
47:05There's nothing
47:08those video game punches
47:09can do
47:10except
47:10put him in a position
47:12to eat those straight right hands
47:13Look at these combinations
47:16from Takuma Inoue
47:17who spent a lot of time
47:22in his brother's shadow
47:25but tonight
47:26he is the talk
47:28of the country
47:30and because
47:35because there's open scoring
47:37in this fight
47:37we have a very good idea
47:39who won
47:39there's not as much
47:41mystery around the scorecards
47:43unless there was some
47:45absolute chicanery
47:46in the last four rounds
47:48which I don't think happened
47:49after pondering retirement
48:03Takuma Inoue
48:04decided he wanted to see it
48:06till the end
48:07and boy is he happy
48:09he did that
48:10and if the scores
48:20are what we think
48:21they are
48:22Takuma just spoiled
48:23a lot of fun storylines
48:25and a lot of fun narratives
48:28that folks were running with
48:29the potential of tension
48:31versus his brother
48:33down the line
48:34of tension
48:35versus a variety
48:36of people
48:36those plans
48:38may be on hold
48:41at least for now
48:42I mean
48:44many of those fights
48:45you can still have
48:46they're just not going to be
48:47for the WBC
48:48Bantamweight title
48:49we don't think
48:50now you have the nervous hush
49:01in the Toyota Arena
49:04as we await the scores
49:05again because of open scoring
49:08maybe not quite as much drama
49:11but as we pointed out
49:16at the end of round eight
49:18it was possible
49:19let's see
49:20ladies and gentlemen
49:21after 12 rounds of action
49:23we go to the scorecards
49:24we have a unanimous decision
49:26here are the score totals
49:29judges and ringside
49:31Koji Tanaka
49:32and Tetsuya Iida
49:35both scored about 116 to 112
49:39Judge Omar Minton
49:42scores about 117 to 111
49:46all three
49:48in favor of the winner
49:50and the new WBC
49:53Bantamweight champion
49:55of the world
49:56Takuma Inoue
49:59Takuma Inoue
50:02so Takuma Inoue
50:14adds to the family legacy
50:17and picks up the WBC Bantamweight title
50:23handing Tenshin Nasakawa
50:26his first loss
50:27as a professional fighter
50:29in any discipline
50:31yeah that 117-111 scorecard
50:34like in ours
50:35please
50:38Wait
50:39to meet
50:40there
50:41you
50:42were
50:43as a professional
50:43get
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