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Yoshiki Takei and DeKang Wang are midway through a scheduled eight-round junior featherweight scrap. That will be the last preliminary bout of the night before Inoue and Nakatani. We are a little behind schedule at this point with the main event having been expected to go off at 9pm local time, but it shouldn’t be much longer now.

Takama Inoue retains WBC 118lb title

Takuma Inoue, Naoya’s younger brother, has just defended his WBC bantamweight title with a 12-round unanimous-decision win over Kazuto Ioka on the undercard. Ioka recovered nicely from a pair of early knockdowns in the second and third rounds, but the outcome was never in doubt – particularly with the open scoring in use.…