Topic: [Boxing]: Jerwin Ancajas vs Takuma Inoue - Nov 15 - page 7. (Read 1639 times)

I also read the news, and it's really disappointing. The same thing happened to his brother during his fight against Stephen Fulton; he also suffered an injury, so the fight was postponed.

@Baofeng  You're right; it looks like it won't happen this year, probably early next year. Since it's a championship fight, Jerwin has no choice but to wait until it finally takes place. But don't worry, guys, there's still a fight between Inoue and Tapales before the year ends, so that should be enough to entertain us in the last month of the year.

We really don't know if it is cause by his sparring partner, or maybe he can't really take a body shot. Or he could have been suffering for this injury for a while until he can't bare the pain anymore. So yes, we don't what this kind of injury that postponed a fight. But he has to let everyone know and I think the camp of Ancajas have been informed and can't blame Inoue for that.


Yes, no need to rush, it might be better for him to take a rest and wait for Takuma. Unless the governing body says that he will go on a title eliminator fight while waiting for Inoue. But as to not take the risk, Ancajas should take a break this Christmas and spend it with his family in the Philippines.

^^ Ouch, barely two weeks from this fight, but unfortunately, Inoue suffered a rib injury. Just wondering though how can he get this injury? Thru sparring partner? Anyway, it looks like a freak accident and no one wanted to get injured near the fight. And obviously, Inoue doesn't want to go there with his injury as well, this is his first defense and he wanted that there are no excuses on his side.

And for Jerwin Ancajas, it's better for him to just wait for Takuma Inoue.

No need for a tune-up fight, he just don't know maybe he might get upset, just saying. So they need to take this into consideration as to not derail the fight with Takuma Inoue in the future.

Bad news boxing fans,

Takuma Inoue is reported to suffered a rib injury, so this fight is not going to happened as per the schedule date of Nov. 15.


https://www.boxingscene.com/takuma-inoue-suffers-rib-injury-forced-postpone-wba-title-defense-versus-jerwin-ancajas--178812

So it's a bummer, but I guess Jerwin will have to sit it out for the rest of the year and wait till Takuma healed and recovered. Or he can go on a tune up fight.

I'll probably lock this thread in the next 24 hours.

I am not too sure if those five legends became champions at the same time, but it could be. But those were the golden days of Philippine boxing. But even at that time, I think we were only like 50/50 or it could be that the Japanese still had more belts at that time. The arrogant Kameda family who always travel to the Philippines to train, Ioka who fought Nietes twice, Hasegawa who lost his unification bout with Montiel who then lost to Donaire, Nishioka the lineal champion of 122 who lost to Donaire, the hard-hitting Uchiyama, long-time champion Yamanaka who lost to roided and then overweighted Luis Nery and many more. It's just that we seldom saw Japanese events live before unlike now there are a lot of online streamers. Unlike the Philippines, Japan is the 3rd biggest economy in the world which is why they can host their own fights on their own traditional days, the times, and even cover all their marketing and promotions in Japanese words making it odd for foreigners to watch and understand.

Now we'll see if the Philippines can revive its former golden age. There are only 2 belts and it is expected to lose to Japan. There are a lot of prospects but unless they can get proper sponsorships and support they will always travel to opponents' backyards and at times exploited like being offered a fight on late notice and losing hometown bias decisions.

Unfortunately, in the lower division, you wouldn't here that much of a news, although his last name is Inoue, it's Naoya that are well-known in the boxer world. But if you are a frequent bettor on boxing, you will know that odds are going to be listed, a couple of days before the fight. So in this case, if the fight is scheduled on November 15, you may want to check out your favorite sports bookies in like November 14, if you wanted to see the odds on crypto based gambling sites.

No, the coaches has nothing to do with the information going into the public. Again, the reason is that there's no hype in this fight although this is for the belt that Takuma Inoue is defending. Nevertheless, for boxing fans, they are going to way for this fight and maybe some of us are going to bet because it seems that Ancajas is somewhat our betting favorite. And if he is underdog here, then the better for us.

Talking about this fight, when I search for more information about this fight I see this news from 3 days ago:


source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/10/20/arum-on-ancajas-fight-vs-takuma-interesting-duel/

It's strange that today is the 23rd of October and the fight will take place on the 15th of November, that's something like 3 weeks left, but even so I'm not seeing a lot of news, comments and reviews about this fight, it seems like the guys responsible for Fight marketing isn't very focused on spreading the news about the fight, and the many review sites aren't very interested in talking about this fight either. Maybe when the fight is very close to starting then the attention will be on this fight. But I still find it strange that I don't see much news about this fight.

I got to thinking that maybe the fighters' coaches might be doing everything they can to ensure that not much information is available about the fighters, but even if they managed to do that, it would still be difficult for sports journalists to not be able to obtain information. so I can only assume that the focus of the review channels should be on other fights and will only focus on this fight when there are 2 or even 1 days left before the fight starts

All i could say is that Ancajas chance of winning this fight is as slim as Tapales dethroning Naoya Inoue. Ancajas is not the same boxer anymore with that successive loss to Martines, which zapped out all the confidence that he had in his career, exaggerated but what i saw, hope i'm wrong. His win against Wilner Soto was expected because he was expected to win that one.

If not for MP Promotions, Ancajas will wait for a long time or maybe can't fight for a title in this stage of his career, so let us give credit to Sean Gibbons for using his connections of giving their boxes a competitive fight even if they were coming from a lose.

But there were times that the Filipino has taken the stage from the Japanese, when at one time they have Pacquiao, Donaire, Hawaiian Punch Villoria or even Nietes and Penalosa. And you won't hear like Japan vs Mexico. It was all Filipinos vs Mexico in the lower weight class and see what nation is the best.


It's obvious that when the best Filipino boxers retire, it's time for other nation to steal the limelight for them. So far, it's the Japanese again in the lower division. So hopefully, Filipino can regain their glory and restore their pride as one of the best country that produces world champion.

You hit it right! We pour millions of pesos into basketball, while we can't seem to nurture a sport that brings glory to our country. It's frustrating, to be honest.

I heard that during the FIBA World Cup, they shelled out $1 million for Clarkson and handed Kai Sotto a hefty sum, albeit smaller than what Clarkson received. It really took me by surprise. Just think, if that $1 million had gone into boxing, we could've had top-notch gyms and support for our talented boxers.


Biases in fights abroad are nothing new, especially in boxing. It's not just Japan, but even popular venues like Australia and the US have had their fair share of controversies on this matter. So, it's something Ancajas should definitely keep in mind. To make sure he secures a win, it might just have to be by knockout.

You know, it's kinda weird that our government isn't putting more money into sports where we're actually good, like boxing, billiards, and others. They're all about basketball, even though we don't really shine on the world stage – like that time we hosted the FIBA World Cup and only won one game.

But boxing, that's a different story. It's growing, and it's mostly thanks to private investors. It's awesome that our boxers, like Pacman, who've made some serious cash during their careers, are all about boosting the sport in the country.



It's a bit sad, but it's what it looks like. Inoue is just on a whole other level compared to Tapales, and it'd take a massive miracle for Tapales to pull off a win.

What's probably happening now is that Ancajas is sparring with Tapales, while Takome is getting some work in with his brother Naoya.

Ever since I followed boxing during my high school days I thought it was really the Japanese that were dominating the Asian scenes. Thailand is next and then the Philippines at third. If only the Philippine government and business sponsors focused on the sport that they are really world class then it can easily surpass Thailand and rival the Japanese.

There are 17 divisions in men's boxing and 4 major belts. The Ring Magazine only awards its belts to the very best in a division but if we count it as well that would make it 85 belts. At the moment Japan owns 11 belts compared to the Philippines 2 which comes from Marlon Tapales who's expected to lose it all this year to Inoue.

Meanwhile, Ancajas' main sparmate is unified champion Marlon Tapales which is not bad at all. Although Takuma is much faster than Tapales.

So far there is no scoop yet, so this fight is still on schedule unless we hear that it's going to be re-scheduled or worst being cancelled. And with that, the date is still November 15 an yeah, the fight date is getting closer and for fans of Jerwin, this is really a good chance to get another belt.

And I agree, it seems that the Japanese is talking over as far as the number of champions in boxing in the Asian region.

There were years that the Filipino has Manny, Nonito, Donnie Nietes, but they all retired or in case of Nonito, we don't know if he is going to still continue to fight or just hang up his gloves too. And so they need to breed good boxers so that the country will have a lot of champions.

Let's see if Ancajas once again will get the belt and at least have a Filipino with a championship belt before the end of the year.

I hope so because the number of Filipino champions has been dwindling with Manny's retirement. It seems like they've lost their inspiration in boxing. I don't know if we'll ever see another boxer like Manny, but even becoming a two to three-division champion would be a significant achievement. As for this fight, Ancajas should really focus on his training; he can't afford to lose this one. It's already his second chance at winning a championship, and if he still loses, I fear his career might take a downturn.



Eyes here ; https://www.proboxingodds.com/events/2023-11-15-1922

Yes, and that's what I'm trying to say, we can only speculate as what are the odds in this fight as the fight is still a month to go. And seldom we see crypto sports bookies releasing or listing the odds are early unless it's a fight that is hype or well known, so we need to wait for the official odds.

And to reiterate, if Ancajas became the underdog, then it could be good bet for us fans as we all know that he might have a puncher chance to beat Takuma Inoue. We really don't hear any news, but for sure they are already in the middle of their trainings in preparation of. this fight.

Yeah, there's a solid chance we might witness another Filipino champ in the bantamweight division, so we better keep a close eye on this one. Ancajas has been on the road to recovery and is determined to regain his champion status.

The fight's in Japan, and after the controversy that went down in Casimero's match, we're hoping for a clean bout, especially since it's a championship fight. If it does go the distance, we all know who the real winner is. Jerwin's gonna have to go for that knockout to make sure he'll win.



None so far, I think this fight would really push through, I'm interested on the betting odds but hasn't found a site that offers yet.

Just saw a video about this fight pop up on my Facebook feed, so I thought I'd check our thread here. Let's give it a little bump so it doesn't get lost. This fight is just around the corner, less than a month away, if the date hasn't changed.

Anyone got any new scoop on this fight? Please share the info if you've got it.

It could be, and with the odds that we are seeing, yes, it is going to be close and for us to see a ML that is attractive enough? For sure we will get it right now in a heartbeat, regardless if it is Inoue or Ancajas as favorite.

I like it though that this is going to be a big test for Inoue as his first defense. Choosing a Filipino who we all know has the heart to upset any champion even if it means that he will go to the champions country and then beat him soundly.

Indeed, I can see a lot of unknown names on some betting sites but this one is not also there. Maybe there are odds already available on local Japanese betting sites and casinos.

The odds of this fight will be close so it will be attractive to bet ML. Even though Takuma Inoue is not that experienced compared to Jerwin Ancajas in terms of world-class fights, I believe he will be a slight favorite since he is fighting in front of his home crowd and he is hungry to prove that he is also a force to be reckoned with like his popular brother Naoya. Ancajas also came from back-to-back losses before having a tune-up in this division.

The odds we are seeing are just predicted odds; they do not exist yet in the sportsbook. So, we can only verify if that is true once the odds are released. Yes, it's quite early, but some popular matches have early odds, while this one doesn't. So, it's safe to say it's not a popular fight despite being a championship fight.