{"id":496221,"date":"2026-02-24T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496221\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:51:07","slug":"naoya-inoue-vs-junto-nakatani-confirmed-for-may-2-at-tokyo-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496221\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue vs. Junto Nakatani confirmed for May 2 at Tokyo Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Nakatani, 32-0 (24 KOs), is a former three-division titleholder who won world titles at flyweight and junior bantamweight and then unified a pair of belts at bantamweight. In 2025, he made short work of David Cuellar in February; stopped Ryosuke Nishida in their June unification bout; and then moved up to 122lbs in December on the undercard of Inoue-Picasso, surviving a very tough challenge from unbeaten Sebastian Hernandez via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nakatani, 32-0 (24 KOs), is a former three-division titleholder who won world titles at flyweight and junior bantamweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-496221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}