The fight is in May and interest is already huge for Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani.
Inoue won’t like to say it or admit it to himself even but for us he is already the greatest Japanese boxer that ever lived.
His achievements, heart, getting up from knockdowns to win by knockouts and a huge growing following in Asia and now the West testament to that.
But his rival Junto Nakatani, another celebrated world champion from the country absolutely believes he can end all that in May.
There has been some meet and greet functions in Tokyo recently and the buzz for the fight is already palpable.
Some are calling it Japanese civil war and sure maybe some factions of fans are loyal to one fighter over the other.
But really it is a celebration of everything that is great about the country of Japan when its best sportsmen compete.
Japan has a rich history in professional boxing with many great world champions and these two are the latest in these times we are living in.
They also just happen to be multi-weight world champions and modern day pound for pound stars in the sport internationally, worldwide as well.
Inoue got the Japanese boxer of the year award again at the recent Japanese boxing awards, an annual dinner and get together in Japan where he came face to face with his rival again.
Not many words exchanged as the two narrow their focus to the brutal task that is ahead of them.
Batter their opponents over the duration of knock them unconscious within the distance.
While boxing smart.
The demand of course is huge for the fight in Japan and Asia but also in the West.
All major network and streaming players in Asia and the West will hustle to get the fight in different parts of the world which will be shown worldwide.
It represents continual, furious, rapid progress that cannot be stopped by boxing in the East that continues through this masterpiece of pugilistic warfare in the boxing ring.
Here’s the official details for the Inoue vs Naktani fight.
