WBA bantamweight champion, Takuma Inoue of Japan, held a public workout on Thursday and talked about his next title defense, which will be on May 6th against countryman Sho Ishida (34-3 with 17 KOs) at the Tokyo Dome. Inoue has a record of 19 wins with 1 loss and 5 knockouts in his professional career and will fight in the same evening as his brother, the legendary Naoya Inoue, who will defend his undisputed world super bantamweight championship against Luis Nery in the main event. Takuma's workout took place in Yokohama, where the 118-pound champion has his training camp, and there he had the opportunity to show his physical condition with less than a month left for the fight, in addition to talking to the journalists present. 

 

Without showing too much, Inoue did some warm-up exercises before stepping into the ring. He also worked on the bag in front of the photographers present.  Inoue will be making the second defense of his belt, which he won in April 2023 against Venezuelan Liborio Solis and first defended against Filipino Jerwin Ancajas in February of this year. Now he will face veteran Ishida and wants to continue his streak and make another successful defense.