Bantamweight
- Champion
- Immediate rematch
- Voluntary defence
First fight, 24 Nov 2025: Takuma Inoue won on points (unanimous decision)
Tokyo, Japan
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JPN
Takuma Inoue
Bantamweight · 118 lb · 53.5 kg · 30 years old · Orthodox
- Wins
- 22
- Losses
- 2
- Draws
- 0
- KOs
- 5
23% of wins inside the distanceForm
- WBCChampion
Fights
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Next fight
Last fight
W
vs Kazuto Ioka
2 May 2026 · UD · 12
WBC World Bantam
Before that
- W24 Nov 2025Tenshin Nasukawa*UD
- L13 Oct 2024Seiya TsutsumiUD
- W6 May 2024Sho IshidaUD
- W24 Feb 2024Jerwin AncajasKO
- W8 Apr 2023Liborio SolisUD
- W13 Dec 2022Jake BorneaTKO
- W7 Jun 2022Gakuya FuruhashiUD
- W11 Nov 2021Shingo WakeUD
- L7 Nov 2019Nordine OubaaliUD
13 older fights · BoxRec profile ↗
Rankings
Best: champion
- WBC
C
Champion
World titles
2 championship reigns · 2 sanctioning bodies · 1 weight class
Reigning
- WBCBantamweightsince 24 Nov 2025 · 10 months↗
Past reigns
- WBABantamweight8 Apr 2023 – 13 Oct 2024 · 1 year 6 months↗
Current titles: the sanctioning bodies' official rankings. History and dates: Wikipedia's lists of world champions (CC BY-SA 4.0), re-read every week.
Movement
Places gained or lost with each sanctioning body. Green is up, red is down, “New” marks an entry into the rankings, and a dot a period with no published archive.
| Body | The boxer's place in the sanctioning body's official ranking. “C”: world champion, above No. 1. No. 1 is the leading contender for the title. | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBC | C | · | · | · | · |
Trajectory, body by body
WBC
Championtracked since Sep 2026
IBF
No longer ranked · best No. 4 (Jul 2018)tracked since Sep 2015
See the changes in detail
| Sep 2026 | Champion |
| Sep 2015 | No. 14 |
| Oct 2015 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Nov 2015 | No. 15 |
| Dec 2015 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Mar 2016 | No. 14 |
| May 2016 | No. 13 |
| Jun 2016 | No. 12 |
| Jul 2016 | No. 13 |
| Aug 2016 | No. 11 |
| Oct 2016 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Nov 2016 | No. 8 |
| Feb 2017 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Mar 2017 | No. 8 |
| May 2017 | No. 9 |
| Jun 2017 | No. 15 |
| Aug 2017 | No. 14 |
| Sep 2017 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Oct 2017 | No. 13 |
| Nov 2017 | No. 12 |
| Dec 2017 | No. 11 |
| May 2018 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Jun 2018 | No. 9 |
| Jul 2018 | No. 4 |
| Aug 2018 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Jan 2021 | No. 10 |
| Feb 2021 | No. 9 |
| Mar 2021 | No. 8 |
| Oct 2021 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Nov 2021 | No. 7 |
| Jan 2022 | No. 5 |
| Mar 2022 | No. 4 |
| May 2022 | No. 6 |
| Jun 2022 | No. 5 |
| Aug 2022 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Sep 2022 | No. 5 |
| Oct 2022 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Nov 2022 | No. 5 |
| Feb 2023 | dropped out of the ranking |
| Oct 2024 | No. 6 |
| Nov 2024 | No. 5 |
| Dec 2024 | No. 4 |
| Feb 2025 | No. 5 |
| Jun 2025 | No. 4 |
| Sep 2025 | dropped out of the ranking |