unbeaten southpaw Koki Inoue (7-0, 6), the cousin of 2-weight world champion Naoya Inoue and world title contender Takuma Inoue. Like his cousin’s he’s trained by Shingo Inoue and is tipped as a really exciting and promising fighter who is using a long amateur background to help him rise through the professional ranks in a speedy fashion.
Born in May 1992 Inoue made his first mark in the amateur ranks, where he ran up an excellent 112-18 (60) record and won 5 amateur titles in Japan. It was that level of amateur background, along with his connections to Naoya and Takuma, that helped many fans in Japan get so excited about his potential ahead of his professional debut.
As a professional Koki Inoue made his debut as a B class fighter in December 2015, when he blew away Indonesian foe Jackson Koel Lapie in 164 seconds. It wasn’t a bout that got huge attention but it was a performance that convinced Mr Ohashi, and the rest of the team around Inoue, that they had another potentially brilliant talent on their hands.
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