Tapales crosses over to the A-side, where 118-110 cards won’t go against him anymore

  All that pent-up energy, all that homesickness, all that work put into an extended training camp helped wash away the nervousness off Marlon Tapales the moment he stepped in the ring against two-belt super bantamweight titlist Murodjon Akhmadaliev in San Antonio, Texas. It was only when the fight scores were being read that Tapales felt a knot grow in his gut. "When I heard a judge scored it 118-110, that was the only time I was nervous during that night," Tapales said on Wednesday after arriving in the country bearing the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation (IBF) 122-pound belts. "118-110? I thought we were going to get ripped off," said M...

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