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In a WBC world bantamweight title bout, champion Takuma Inoue turned back the division’s No. 1 contender, Tenshin Nasukawa, by decision. Inoue was floored in the 7th round, but he controlled the rest of the fight and secured his first title defense with a decision win. Nasukawa, making his first title challenge after publicly declaring he would “knock out Takuma Inoue,” fell short of his goal. On 5channel, discussion grew heated over the scoring system — why Nasukawa lost despite landing a knockdown — and over whether the ropes moments in rounds 2 and 7 were “slips” or fighter-hurting knockdowns, with opinions sharply divided.
Published 9/27 (Sun) 22:04
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◆Professional boxing ▽WBC world bantamweight (53.5kg limit) title bout, 12 rounds: ○Champion Takuma Inoue (decision) def. division’s No. 1 contender Tenshin Nasukawa ● (September 27, Toyota Arena Tokyo)
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / original article here
What people said
(･∀･;) what a pathetic scrub lol
Because under the "must-system" scoring, every round gets scored 10-9 no matter what, and a knockdown only drops it to 10-8.
Because Takuma was clearly ahead in almost every other round.
Don't watch if you don't know the rules.
winning on points with weak little pitter-patter punches that don't even land clean
I'm done watching this.
You'd get KO'd instantly if you took one of those lol
Yeah honestly, same, it's lame.
I mean, to begin with
it's a sport where you deliberately cut weight
and make yourself weaker on purpose.
I scored it exactly the same as the judge who had it 114-113.
Nasukawa really did win, seriously.
Round 2 was obviously just a slip
and the round 7 one was just a slip too
he wasn't even hurt.
So specifically, which rounds did Nasukawa actually win besides the round-7 knockdown?
Looked like Inoue took almost all of them to me.
The round 7 one was clearly just a loss of balance, that's why the ref didn't even count it.
This isn't amateur boxing, knockdowns should carry more weight.
Not being able to press the advantage there is also down to a skill gap
Bottom line, Nasukawa was the weaker fighter — he landed one lucky shot and couldn't close it out.
You kids probably weren't around for it, but Mike Tyson scored a knockdown in Olympic qualifiers and still lost the decision and got eliminated. This happens even in amateur boxing lol
Go watch sumo instead then.
Has Nasukawa ever actually been dropped in his fighting career?
He turned into a newborn fawn on wobbly legs
from just one light tap by Mayweather lol
KFC "Him was a bambi fool" (a meme mocking Nasukawa's shaky-legged collapse against Mayweather)
This is seriously making me hate boxing.
Nasukawa's out there giving it his all in boxing, so if you're gonna cheer for him at least learn the rules.
Nah, he just lost, plain and simple lol
Well, TIL.
Yep, that's how it works — did you not know?
Guess you don't know (late-career) Mayweather then?
Honestly it's his brother's punching power that's the abnormal one… you don't normally see guys in the lighter weight classes just blasting people out like that.
Their faces are actually pretty different too lol
People say it's a reach difference
apparently Naoya has longer arms.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Boxing scoring fundamentally runs on the “10-9 must system”: every round is required to be scored with one fighter ahead 10-9, and a knockdown typically drops that to 10-8. Because of this, scoring a knockdown in just one round doesn’t save you if you’re behind over the other eleven rounds — you can still lose the decision. This led to comments questioning the system, like “it’s strange to lose after landing a knockdown,” while many others pointed out that Inoue was actually ahead in the raw round count. Opinions were also split on whether the rope moments in rounds 2 and 7 were slips that shouldn’t have counted as knockdowns — a classic case that’s genuinely hard to judge from broadcast footage alone. Nasukawa had declared beforehand that he would “knock out Takuma Inoue,” which adds extra bite to the discussion given how the result played out in the opposite direction.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Boxing] Takuma Inoue turns the tables on Tenshin Nasukawa — dropped in round 7 but backs up his “I’ll knock out Nasukawa” promise, WBC world bantamweight“.
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