
Legal matter delaying Matchroom’s Japanese Prizefighter tournament
After relaunching in 2024 with quarterfinal bouts in Japan, no subsequent matches have taken place. Tom Ivers talked to Matchroom Boxing to learn more.
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After relaunching in 2024 with quarterfinal bouts in Japan, no subsequent matches have taken place. Tom Ivers talked to Matchroom Boxing to learn more.

Osaka, Japan - The semi finals of Matchroom's newfangled Prizefighter tournament are now in place, with Kazuto Takesako and Riku Kunimoto set to do battle for a place in the $1m final against the winner of Kieron Conway vs Aaron McKenna.

Prizefighter is back and heading to Japan as a new, re-imagined world-class international tournament. In partnership with Rakuten Ticket and Never Say Never (NSN), Matchroom today confirmed at a press conference in Tokyo that a blockbuster $1 million battle will begin at the Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, on March 31 – live on Abema in Japan and DAZN worldwide (excluding Asia).