On December 26, 2023, the 31-year-old WBA (Super) and IBF super-bantamweight champion, Marlon Tapales (37-3, 18 KOs), and the 30-year-old WBC and WBO super-bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs) faced each other for the undisputed world championpionship.
Tapales came in to the fight on a 4-fight win streak with a 45% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 8 months and 18 days. Inoue was on a 25-fight win streak with a 88% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 5 months and 1 day.
Naoya Inoue stopped Marlon Tapales via KO in the 10th round and unified the WBA (Super), IBF, WBC, WBO, and The Ring super-bantamweight titles. Inoue improves his record to 26-0 (23 KOs), while Tapales adds a loss to his record at 37-4.
On December 7, 2019, a 27-year-old Marlon Tapales (33-2, 15 KOs) and a 29-year-old Japanese boxer Ryosuke Iwasa (26-3, 16 KOs) met in the ring in a super-bantamweight bout.
Tapales came in to the fight on a 12-fight win streak with a 42% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 6 months and 6 days. Iwasa was on a 1-fight win streak with a 55% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 9 months and 21 days.
Ryosuke Iwasa stopped Marlon Tapales via TKO in the 11th round. Iwasa improves his record to 27-3 (17 KOs), while Tapales adds a loss to his record at 33-3.
On February 23, 2013, a 20-year-old Marlon Tapales (21-1, 8 KOs) and David Sánchez met in the ring in a super-flyweight bout.
Tapales came in to the fight on a 13-fight win streak with a 36% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 4 months and 3 days.
Marlon Tapales lost to David Sánchez via majority decision in the 12-round super-flyweight fight, and adds an loss to his record at 21-2.
On May 30, 2009, a 17-year-old Marlon Tapales (8-0, 2 KOs) and Brix Ray met in the ring in a flyweight bout.
Tapales came in to the fight on a 8-fight win streak with a 25% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 1 month and 11 days.
Marlon Tapales lost to Brix Ray via RTD in the 6th round, and adds an loss to his record at 8-1.