is a Japanese

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. He is the older cousin of boxers

Naoya Inoue is a Japanese professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, and is one of only three male boxers in history (along with Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk) to become the undisputed champion in two weigh ...

and

Takuma Inoue is a Japanese professional boxer who held the WBA bantamweight title from 2023 to 2024. Professional career Inoue started boxing from a very young age, after watching his brother Naoya win several high school championships. After a promising ...

Professional career

Inoue made his professional debut on 29 December 2015, scoring a first-round

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(KO) victory over Jackson Koel Lapie at the

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, Japan. After compiling a record of 12–0 (10 KOs) he defeated Valentine Hosokawa on 6 April 2019 at the

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, Tokyo, capturing the Japanese

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title via ten-round

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(UD), with the scorecards reading 98–92, 98–93 and 97–93. After retaining his title with a fifth-round

technical knockout A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...

(TKO) against Ryuji Ikeda in July, Inoue defeated Jheritz Chavez on 2 December 2019 at the Korakuen Hall, capturing the vacant

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Asia Pacific light-welterweight title via seventh-round KO.

Professional boxing record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Koki Living people 1992 births Koki Inoue Japanese male boxers Sportspeople from Zama, Kanagawa Martial artists from Kanagawa Prefecture Light-welterweight boxers Southpaw boxers 21st-century Japanese sportsmen