Tenshin Nasukawa hoped a win over Takuma Inoue would set up a Japanese mega-fight with Naoya Inoue, with Takuma serving as a gatekeeper to his older brother, boxing’s pound-for-pound king. Unfortunately for Nasukawa, that pathway to the undisputed super bantamweight champion remains firmly closed off for now.
Inoue climbed off the floor in Round 7 to capture a unanimous decision (114-113, 116-111, 116-111) and repeat his win over Nasukawa in their all-Japanese WBC bantamweight title fight in the early hours of Sunday morning at Toyota Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
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Inoue (23-2, 5 KOs) controlled the first six rounds against the former…
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