(1st UPDATE) Marlon Tapales earns the WBA and IBF super bantamweight crowns with a split decision win over Uzbek Murodjon Akhmadaliev.
MANILA, Philippines – Marlon Tapales weathered Murodjon Akhmadaliev’s late round assaults and snatched the Uzbek’s World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation super bantamweight crowns on Saturday, April 8 , at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas.
It was a close call for Tapales, who used jabs and uppercuts to win seven of the first nine rounds before fading and getting outpointed by Akhmadaliev from the 10th to the 12th rounds.Proving the oddsmakers wrong, 30-year-old Tapales, the former World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion, raised his record to 37-3 with 19 knockouts while handing Akhmadaliev his first loss in 12 fights with 8 KOs.
Discarding caution, Tapales, dubbed the “Maranding Nightmare,” chose to slug it out with Akhmadaliev in the 12th and nearly paid for it as he got tagged with a solid punch. Tapales thus became the second Filipino world boxing champion in 2023, following in the footsteps of fellow SanMan Promotions star Melvin Jerusalem, who won the WBO minimumweight belt at the expense of Japanese Masataka Taniguchi in Osaka in January.
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