WBC Bantamweight Champion Junto Nakatani (30-0, 23 COs) is already looking past his unification fight against IBF champion Ryosuke Nishida (10-0, 2 foods) scheduled on ESPN+on June 8, and talks about a collision against Naoya inoue on 122.
Lack of elite experience
He is worried that if he drops Naoya, he will get up again and keep fighting. It would be bad for Nakatani, because he must handle the power of inoue, combination and defense. Junto has a lot more to worry about than Inoue rises again. He is too lacking with his fighting style to have a chance to beat inoue. This is the real problem that Nakatani does not see. I don’t know he can change that. He is not members, and his motions are slow compared to inoue’s.
Few people give Nakatani a lot of chance against inoue because he is slow, robotic and has a mechanical style that can easily choose in the piece by piece. Junto needs to change the way he fights to become more fluid to defeat inoues, because he has an easy time with this tin style.
Nakatani does not have the experience of fighting someone like Naoya Inoue. For some reason, his promoters kept him sheltered and did not put him in the kind of A-grade fighters he needed to be ready for ‘Monster’ inoue.
Nakatani’s last three poor opponents, David Cuellar, Petch Sor Chitpattana and Vincent Astrolabi, are examples of how his promoters match him. To be prepared for a fighter like Inoue, Nakatani must fight against guys like Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, Marlon Tapales and Ramon Cardenas in that order.
Without Nakatani fighting against such fighters, it is impossible to take him seriously as a chance against Naoya. He is a good talk, but has not shown the gumption to tackle the talents. He must move to 122 and tackle the top contenders to better prepare himself for inoue. After three or four fights, Nakatani may have improved enough to give a chance to win. At the time, ‘the monster’ will be a little more aged and softened.
Nakatani, 27, is in the pipeline to stand ‘The Monster’ inoue next year, provided he defeats Nishida. Unconscious Super Bantamweight Champion, Inoue, should win his next battle in September against WBA -Tussent time champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev.
“He has the experience of beating down and getting up again and winning a fight,” Nakatani said Ring magazine. “It’s a creditworthiness for him. When I hit him, I have to make sure he doesn’t get up again. ‘
Last updated on 05/20/2025
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