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

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.

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.

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.

Inoue already has two fights lined up in 2025 - against Ramon Cardenas and Murodjon Akhmadaliev - but a 2026 match-up with fellow countryman Nakatani would become the biggest fight in Japanese ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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