SAGAMIHARA, Japan -- One is known as “The Monster,” the other “Big Bang.” The bout between champion boxers Naoya Inoue ...

Bantamweight world champion Junto Nakatani has revealed that plans are being worked on for him to fight Takuma Inoue and his pound-for-pound superstar brother Naoya. Nakatani (28-0-0 21 KO) has ...

I would like first to fight his brother Takuma and then Naoya.” The 26-year-old Nakatani believes a fight against the elder, more dominant Naoya, 31, will be the biggest fight in Japanese history.

Like Inoue, Nakatani combines skill and immense power to outbox and then flatten opponents, leading to his rise in the pound-for-pound rankings.

The WBC Bantamweight Champion Junto Nakatani has set his sights on a fight with Naoya Inoue. Nakatani is tearing up the bantamweight divison. He won the WBC belt by knocking out Alexandro Santiago.

Bantamweight world champion Junto Nakatani has revealed that plans are being worked on for him to fight Takuma Inoue and his pound-for-pound superstar brother Naoya.

There’s enough dynamite in a potential matchup between three-weight world champion Naoya Inoue and reigning WBO super flyweight titleholder Junto Nakatani to threaten the very foundations of any ...

As impressive as Naoya Inoue's run has been, there is a fight waiting for him in 2025 with countryman and and current WBC bantamweight titleholder Junto Nakatani that would be an all-timer in Japan.

One is known as “The Monster,” the other “Big Bang.” The bout between champion boxers Naoya Inoue (30-0-0, 27 KOs) and Junto Nakatani (31-0-0, 24 KOs) is already being billed as Japan’s “fight of the ...

Junto Nakatani fighting for his third world title in a different weight is just the latest in a surging Japanese boxing movement. Of course, Japanese boxing is currently led by Naoya Inoue.

If all goes according to Turki Alalshikh's plan, Naoya Inoue will face the toughest test of his career in December 2025.

Pound-for-pound stars Naoya Inoue (29-0, 26 KOs) and Junto Nakatani (30-0, 23 KOs) both verbally agreed to fight each other when they came face to face at the Japanese Boxing Commission awards ...