• Source: Marlon Tapales

Marlon Tapales (born March 23, 1992) is a Filipino professional boxer. He has held world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super) and IBF super-bantamweight titles from April to December 2023, and previously the WBO bantamweight title from 2016 to 2017.
As of October 2024, he is ranked as world's No. 1 ranked super bantamweight by The Ring and second best by the TBRB.




Professional career






= WBO bantamweight champion

=




= Tapales vs. Sor Singyu

=
In 2016, Tapales defeated WBO bantamweight champion Pungluang Sor Singyu by KO in the eleventh round and won his first world title.




= Tapales vs. Iwasa

=
On 7 December 2019, Tapales fought Ryosuke Iwasa for the vacant IBF super bantamweight title. During the fight Tapales suffered a concussion because of accidental head-clash. But the fight continued and Iwasa won via an eleventh-round TKO.




= Tapales vs. Teshigawara

=
On 11 December 2021, Tapales fought Teshigawara, ranked #3 by the IBF at super bantamweight. Tapales managed to stop Teshigawara within two rounds.




= Unified WBA(super) and IBF super bantamweight champion

=




= Tapales vs. Akhmadaliev

=
On 8 April 2023, Tapales beat Murodjon Akhmadaliev via split decision to win the WBA (Super) and IBF super-bantamweight world titles and became a 2 weight world champion.




= Undisputed super bantamweight title fight

=




= Tapales vs. Inoue

=
On August 21, 2023, it was reported that Tapales had entered into negotiations with the unified WBC and WBO super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue for an undisputed title bout. The fight is expected to take place at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan on 26 December 2023, and would be broadcast by ESPN+ in the United States. Tapales lost the fight by 10th round knockout against Inoue earning his fourth defeat. Despite the loss, however, Tapales made history for being the first Filipino boxer to fight for undisputed in the 4-belt era, and the second Asian to do so.




Professional boxing record






See also


List of southpaw stance boxers
List of world bantamweight boxing champions
List of world super-bantamweight boxing champions
List of Filipino boxing world champions




References






External links


Boxing record for Marlon Tapales from BoxRec (registration required)
Marlon Tapales - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Naoya Inoue
• Marlon Tapales
• Naoya Inoue
• Murodjon Akhmadaliev
• Marlon
• List of current boxing rankings
• Seiya Tsutsumi
• 2024 in Philippine sports
• Jesse Rodriguez (boxer)
• Takuma Inoue
• Transnational Boxing Rankings Board