{"id":643505,"date":"2026-05-01T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:58:09","slug":"naoya-inoue-and-junto-nakatani-bang-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/643505\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani Bang On\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani Bang On\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Naoya Inoue will defend his undisputed super bantamweight championship against Junto Nakatani on May 2 at the Tokyo Dome.<\/p>\n<p>Naoya \u201cMonster\u201d Inoue weighed in at 122 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Junto \u201cBig Bang\u201d Nakatani weighed in at 121.5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Naoya Inoue.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese star, made his professional debut in 2012. From the start, he stood out for his potent knockout power and refined technique, quickly gaining global recognition.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he became WBC light flyweight world champion, and later dominated the bantamweight division, where he became undisputed champion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he repeated the feat at super bantamweight, becoming undisputed in two divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Naoya Inoue holds an undefeated record of 32-0 with 27 KOs.<\/p>\n<p>Junto Nakatani.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese fighter turned professional in 2015. With his reach, technique, and exceptional power, he quickly established himself as a threat in the lower weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, he won a world flyweight title. He later moved up to super flyweight, where he also became champion, and then to bantamweight, capturing the WBC world title.<\/p>\n<p>Nakatani is a three-division world champion, known for his consistency and finishing ability.<\/p>\n<p>Junto Nakatani holds an undefeated record of 32-0 with 24 KOs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_182171\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"182171\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764343693_289_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani Bang On\u00a0 Naoya Inoue will defend his undisputed super bantamweight championship against Junto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-643505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643505","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=643505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}