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Inoue, Ancajas come face to face
The Philippine Star
|February 23, 2024
TOKYO - Reigning WBA bantamweight champion Takuma Inoue wore his poker face in Thursday's final press conference and said the nicest things about his Filipino challenger Jerwin Ancajas.
"Ancajas is the best fighter I will ever face," said the 28-year-old Inoue at the Tokyo Dome Hotel ballroom packed with Japanese media with just a handful of Pinoy scribes.
"I idolize Ancajas," added the younger brother of Naoya Inoue, the undisputed super-bantamweight champion (WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO) and regarded by many as the No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
Later on, the two boxers posed before the cameras with Takuma's championship belt hanging from his right shoulder. It's the first time they stood so close to one another, and in another 48 hours they'd be trading blows inside the ring.
This story is from the February 23, 2024 edition of The Philippine Star.
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