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The story
On September 27, 2026, Takuma Inoue and Tenshin Nasukawa faced off in their rematch (bout 2), a 12-round WBC bantamweight title fight. The same card featured undercard bouts pitting Tomoya Tsuboi against Marajika and Nishida against Sam Goodman, both of which also went the distance to a decision. On 5ch, comments like “Enough with two sketchy decisions in a row!” started popping up, with some posters voicing concern that the scoring in the Tsuboi fight favored a fighter from the Teiken stable. As for the main event, some pointed out that Nasukawa’s kickboxing background gives him a different sense of range, while others predicted Inoue would win a decision on experience.
What people said
Kind of a bummer that his first world title shot is a vacant-title decision bout, though.
Marajika hits hard, so even one clean shot could be trouble.
Tsuboi's got a habit of getting cocky and letting his defense slip, which means he eats a lot of punches to the face.
I want the little brother (Naoya Inoue's younger brother, Takuma) to win, but I think Tenshin's got this one.
I haven't watched a Tenshin fight since that last one.
neither one of these guys can punch anyway.
Two in a row? Come on, lol
Teiken really does run the show.
Probably a close 3-0, like a 2-point margin.
If it's a blowout score though, that's another 'sketchy decision' moment.
https://mao.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/dome/1790496528/
Good effort though, well fought.
Glad he didn't get robbed by home-turf judging at least.
The minimumweight guy was even smaller than Ririka Moriwaki (a famously tiny Japanese female boxer).
Goodman's an outboxer, Nishida likes it up close
Question is who controls the distance.
but I'm still calling a Takuma decision win on experience.
At boxing's closer range, though, he can't put his weight into it, so it turns into 'poi-katsu' punches (a pun on point-farming — hits thrown just to rack up scorecard points).
didn't realize kickboxing made that kind of difference.
A body-shot KO isn't out of the question.
Plan is to bunch punches upstairs, and once the guard comes up high, switch to the body.
Wasn't Naoya Inoue sponsored by Maruhan?
Thanks.
Guess they can't run a commercial that's too obviously a pachinko ad.
He looks completely off.
And that's even after moving up a weight class.
Yeah, his conditioning's clearly bad — obvious since round 1.
If he goes to Breaking Down, he'll be swimming in cash.
Wonder how today compares.
That fight was the best.
Background and Talking Points
Tenshin Nasukawa built his career in kickboxing promotions like RISE before switching to boxing in 2020, and after facing Takuma Inoue in 2022, this marks their second meeting. On the thread, posters pointed out that the kickboxing habit of keeping distance to guard against kicks makes it harder to land weighted punches in boxing, offering analysis grounded in the differences in weight class and style. Meanwhile, the undercard bouts held the same day (including Tomoya Tsuboi vs. Marajika) drew a wave of complaints about the scoring, with the phrase “sketchy decision” coming up again and again. Since boxing scoring is done independently by three judges, split opinions on the same fight aren’t unusual — and reactions like these are a familiar pattern at international title bouts.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “■ Boxing: Takuma Inoue vs. Tenshin Nasukawa ■.”
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