Marlon Tanan Tapales vs. Nattapong Jankaew & Reymart Grande Gaballo vs. Kenbun Torres Martínez RBR

Wow time goes quick. I thought he fought Inoue more recently to be honest, turns out it’s been 5 and a half months. And I guess he didn’t take too much punishment either really

 

Torres has had such a weird career.

After dropping his pro debut at 16 to former title challenger Ricardo Barajas in an absolutely stunning disply of mismanagement, he relocates to Japan and goes in an eight fight win streak to earn a shot at Japan's national bantamweight title. Loses a close decision, wins a couple more fights and then goes on an almost nine year hiatus.

Comes back, wins a couple more in Japan before dropping a close 8 rounder in his native Mexico. Then he goes another another extended hiatus (nearly six years this time), suffers a KO loss in his return. After splitting a couple more fights staged in Vietnam, he goes into Gaballo's backyard and manages to secure by far the biggest win of his career.

I'm getting dizzy just writting about all these twist and turns.

 

Not entirely sure why the official allowed Gaballo to continue after the second KD. He was clearly renting out an entirely different headspace as he rose from the mat.

 

Nah just that he lost to and got stopped by the hardest puncher at the weight. Inoues turnaround was standard

 

Nattapong Jankaew really need to be back at 115 lbs division.

This is was a absolute destruction of Tapales wow

 

Errrr I think he took more than enough against Inoue. Try watching it back.

 

It was pretty gruelling and it went 10 but Inoue was focusing more on bodywork from what I remember. Tapales didn’t take too many hard ones to the head iirc and of course wasn’t stopped by a headshot.

To be honest I actually remember thinking Inoue took it pretty easy on Tapales but I haven’t rewatched in a while