{"id":590173,"date":"2026-04-07T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:27:09","slug":"tim-bradley-delivers-verdict-on-naoya-inoue-vs-nakatani-hes-the-only-one-who-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590173\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley delivers verdict on Naoya Inoue vs Nakatani: “He’s the only one who can”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bradley has weighed in ahead of Naoya Inoue<\/a>\u2018s upcoming battle with Junto Nakatani.<\/p>\n

Arguably the biggest fight in the history of Japanese boxing takes place next month when the undisputed super-bantamweight crown<\/a> is on the line at the Tokyo Dome on May 2.<\/p>\n

A victory for three-division champion Nakatani would see him match the achievements of Inoue, who is a four-division champion, having also become undisputed bantamweight world champion along with light flyweight and super-flyweight world champion.<\/p>\n

Nakatani has reigned as flyweight, super-flyweight and bantamweight world champion, and the general consensus within the boxing world is that he could present the biggest threat to Inoue has in his career so far.<\/p>\n

Hall of Fame inductee Bradley certainly agrees, as speaking to ProBoxTV<\/a>, he says that Nakatani is more than capable of coming out on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Nakatani has the possibility or has the ability to beat Naoya Inoue. I\u2019m going to tell y\u2019all right now, this is the guy. This is the one guy that I believe in the lower classes has everything it takes to beat Inoue.\u201d<\/p>\n

A win for Inoue would solidify his status as one of, if not the pound-for-pound best fighters in the world, with many fans already putting him at the top of their list following the retirement of Terence Crawford in December.<\/p>\n

Crawford himself has offered his take on the battle against Nakatani, revealing that he sees it as a 50-50 fight.<\/a> The now-retired superstar also said he would like to be in attendance for the event, and many other big names are expected to feel the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley has weighed in ahead of Naoya Inoue\u2018s upcoming battle with Junto Nakatani. Arguably the biggest fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}