Naoya Inoue vs. Junto Nakatani & Takuma Inoue vs. Kazuto Ioka + Jin Sasaki vs. Sora Tanaka RBR.

Nakatani's last fight spoiled the hype for this for me, he should be rematching Hernandez. Watched it again last night and still don't see how you can give it Nakatani, even a draw is generous. Will still watch this though and hope for a good fight.

 

War Nakatani

 

Inoue's been a bit more measured in his last couple of fights and while he hasn't scored knockouts, being more disciplined would probably serve him better against Junto than trying to bum rush him. Junto's still better at long range and even though he faded in the second half of his fight with Hernandez, he still hung tough in a heated war and that will serve him well. He won't fold easily in the face of adversity. But, since he did bust up in the previous fight, you have to wonder how well his face will hold up against Inoue.

Inoue's older and smaller, but he's also quicker of foot and hand. I think that might serve him well since this might well be the kind of fight where they take turns throwing instead of exchanging with one another. Had this been the Inoue from Nery and Cardenas, I would have picked Nakatani. But I think the more disciplined iteration of Inoue we saw agasint MJ and Picasso can probably outbox Nakatani to win a competitive but clear decision (or potentially force a late stoppage due to facial damage).

Nakatani's live, though. He's going to be motivated to put in a better showing than he did against Hernandez. He's now battle tested and his left hand is quite terrifying. This shouldn't be easy for Inoue. If it is, that's an indicator of how great he really is.

I think you could get to seven for Nakatani. I had him sweeping the first five and I thought he outboxed Hernandez in the tenth. As I recall, there were at least a couple of rounds where he landed at just about the same clip as the Argentine. It may take a bit of luster off the fight. but I think it might serve Junto better to have the experience of being in a war before he steps into the right with someone hell bent on bringing the pain.

 

I’ve got my alarm set. I’ll catch most of the undercards on replay tomorrow. See ya’ll soon.

 

Will the Jim Sasaki v Sora Tanaka fight be on the DAZN broadcast? Seems like they only start their broadcast at 5:40am ET which is annoying

 

You went for door opening? I really want the Inoue T-shirt @Serge designed. Something tells me they won't have it though...

Anyway, probably head down a bit later. My mate isn't so interested in making a full day of it.

Have a great time. Pretty hyped for this

 

Tyson fought Douglas there 36 years ago. One day I'll be there fighting Inoue.

 

I came from the other side of world for this I was in there a hour before the first fight

 

First First was a draw not bad little fight.

 

Shogo Tanaka did a draw with Kosuke Tomioka what a upset ! I was thinking that Shogo Tanaka was a way better than that, I hope we will have a rematch.

 

Live here from Panama! let's go Inoue!

 

How are you watching the undercard?