{"id":106222,"date":"2021-12-16T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=106222"},"modified":"2021-12-16T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:58:00","slug":"naomichi-marufuji-boxing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/16\/naomichi-marufuji-boxing-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomichi Marufuji makes his boxing debut in Exhibition Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese Pro Wrestling legend and NOAH\u2019s mainstay, <\/span><b>Naomichi Marufuji<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made his boxing debut today in an exhibition bout at a 3150 Fight event aired on Abema TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marufuji started to train boxing as a hobby a few months ago. In November he was offered the chance to participate in an exhibition bout against another boxing enthusiast, <\/span><b>Takayuki Kinoshita<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who is 61 years old automotive journalist and comedian.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fight has reached its full-time limit, which was 2 x 2 minutes round ending with a draw. Pro Wrestling Noah promoted the fight heavily through the day as promotion is preparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/11\/20\/njpw-vs-pro-wrestling-noah-set-for-night-3-of-wrestle-kingdom-16\/\" target=\"_self\">clash with NJPW<\/a> at the upcoming Wrestle Kingdom 16 event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd4a HERE WE GO \ud83e\udd4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noah_marufuji_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@noah_marufuji_<\/a> makes his entrance for his boxing debut! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7e4x8r195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/p7e4x8r195<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#noah_ghc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQfvWfnyYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rQfvWfnyYr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noahglobal\/status\/1471393807686332420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd4a Let\u2019s go Marufuji! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7e4x8r195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/p7e4x8r195<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#noah_ghc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1LwN4RIiSd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1LwN4RIiSd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noahglobal\/status\/1471394663143993346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd4a It goes the distance! Two rounds! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noah_marufuji_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@noah_marufuji_<\/a> speaks to the Osaka crowd. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/noah_ghc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#noah_ghc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ct4Igod7Bx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ct4Igod7Bx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PRO WRESTLING NOAH (@noahglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noahglobal\/status\/1471395726039318528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t foresee Naomichi Marufuji trading in his wrestling boots for the gloves anytime soon. But it was nice to see the NOAH legend get a chance to take part in something he enjoys as an exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. You can watch Pro Wrestling NOAH as well as DDT, TJPW, and more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestle-universe.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Wrestle Universe.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Pro Wrestling legend and NOAH\u2019s mainstay, Naomichi Marufuji made his boxing debut today in an exhibition bout at a 3150 Fight event aired on Abema TV. Marufuji started to train boxing as a hobby a few months ago. In November he was offered the chance to participate in an exhibition bout against another boxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":53717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,24],"tags":[1684],"class_list":["post-106222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-noah","tag-naomichi-marufuji"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}