Marlon Tapales, with a split decision win over a tough Uzbek foe on Sunday to become the unified super bantamweight champion of the world, gets a potential megabuck fight against Japan's Naoya Inoue later in the year. The 31-year-old southpaw from Tubod in Lanao del Norte stunned Murodjon Akhmadaliev and is now the second Filipino world boxing champion after Melvin Jerusalem, who seized the World Boxing Organization minimum weight belt three months ago in Japan. "I'm still on cloud nine right now. I can't believe that we won," Tapales, a huge underdog against Akhmadaliev, said in Filipino after claiming the World Boxing Association (Super) and International Boxing Federation be...
Keep on reading: Super bantam champ Tapales on course for big fight with Inoue
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