{"id":156424,"date":"2025-06-04T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156424\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:12:11","slug":"yoshiki-takei-vs-christian-medina-eyed-for-inoue-vs-akhmadaliev-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156424\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshiki Takei vs Christian Medina eyed for Inoue vs Akhmadaliev show"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBO bantamweight champion Yoshiki Takei is gearing up for a quick turnaround, as ESPN\u2019s Salvador Rodriguez reports<\/a> that a September showdown with no. 1 contender Christian \u201cChispa\u201d Medina on the Naoya Inoue vs Murodjon Akhmadliev undercard is \u201con the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

After back-to-back gritty decisions over Jason Moloney and Daigo Higa, Takei (11-0, 9 KO) needed just over two minutes to demolish Yuttapong Tongdee last week<\/a>. The former kickboxing ace has more than proven himself as a standout pugilist as well, showing off plenty of craft to go along with his brutal power.<\/p>\n

Medina (24-4, 17 KO), 25, boasts just one loss in the last six years, a 2023 decision against future IBF titlist Ryosuke Nishida. He\u2019s got the style to produce another classic with fellow slugger Takei, so keep your fingers crossed that this one comes together.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, we\u2019ve yet to receive an official announcement for Inoue vs Akhmadaliev. Eddie Hearn called it a \u201cdone deal\u201d last month and both emerged victorious in their most recent bouts, so hopefully that comes soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBO bantamweight champion Yoshiki Takei is gearing up for a quick turnaround, as ESPN\u2019s Salvador Rodriguez reports that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[66413,10520,1935,66410,66412,3576,163,10522,60222,10521,66411,17947,79,66409,16,15,6691,66408],"class_list":["post-156424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-akhmadaliev","tag-bad","tag-boxing","tag-christian","tag-eyed","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-hook","tag-inoue","tag-left","tag-medina","tag-show","tag-sports","tag-takei","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vs","tag-yoshiki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622912585393228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}