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Boxing: Tapales '101% ready' for Inoue bout, says coach

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Champ de Lunas, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Marlon Tapales after his second round knockout of Jose Estrella at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, May 14, 2022. Nabeel Ahmad, Premier Boxing Champions/File." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/sports/12/18/tepales-vs-estrella_nabeel-ahmad-_-premier-boxing-champions.jpg"/><figcaption>Marlon Tapales after his second round knockout of Jose Estrella at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, May 14, 2022. Nabeel Ahmad, Premier Boxing Champions/File.</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA -- Filipino boxer Marlon &quot;The Nightmare&quot; Tapales has concluded the final part of his training camp in the Philippines for his unification bout against Naoya &quot;The Monster&quot; Inoue of Japan.Tapales hit the mitts and worked on his power shots with head coach Ernel Fontanilla in a gym in Parañaque with members of the print media, MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons, Sanman Promotions President and his manager JC Manangquil in attendance.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/30/23/boxing-marlon-tapales-on-the-verge-of-making-history">Marlon Tapales wants to make history as the first Filipino undisputed world champion</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/30/23/watch-tapales-trains-in-baguio-for-inoue-fight">WATCH: Tapales trains in Baguio for Inoue fight</a></li></ul>&quot;Sina Marlon tsaka Coach Ernel is just doing the light workouts na lang ngayon, so yung pagkuha na lang ng timbang, pagkuha ng tamang kundisyon during fight night,&quot; said Manangquil.Some three weeks ago, Fontanilla declared Tapales to be 85% ready for the Inoue bout. This time around, the coach said: &quot;He is around 101%, so he&#x27;s ready.&quot;Tapales has logged 200 rounds of sparring in the past three months. He will face off against the unbeaten Inoue (25-0, 22KOs) on December 26 at the Ariake Arena, with the winner walking away with the IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO world super bantamweight belts.The Filipino will come in as a heavy underdog against the &quot;Monster,&quot; who is widely considered as one of the best boxers in the world, pound-for-pound. But it&#x27;s a tag that does not concern Tapales.&quot;Hindi naman po bago sa akin &#x27;yung dumayo sa balwarte ng kalaban,&quot; said Tapales, who won the won the WBO bantamweight title in Thailand against then-champion Pungluang Sor Singyu.&quot;Of course, normal naman &#x27;yung kaba, tsaka maganda &#x27;yung kaba kasi nagbibigay &#x27;yan ng magandang energy,&quot; he also said.MP Promotions&#x27; Gibbons believes that should Tapales pull off the upset against Inoue, he will get the respect he deserves not just in the Philippines but also worldwide. &quot;It&#x27;ll be the biggest upset of this year, last year, the year before,&quot; said Gibbons. &quot;He&#x27;s been doing this for a long, long time, and he&#x27;ll finally get the accolades he deserves here.&quot; <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/22/23/mma-folayang-shows-support-for-tapales">MMA: Folayang shows support for Tapales</a></li></ul>

Filipino boxer Marlon Tapales has concluded the final part of his training camp in the Philippines for his unification bout against Naoya Inoue.

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Boxing: Tapales '101% ready' for Inoue bout, says coach

Champ de Lunas,

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Published Dec 18, 2023 06:43 PM PHT

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