Comments Thread For: Junto Nakatani to headline two-day Tokyo card featuring seven title fights

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An extravaganza of seven title fights in two days is coming to Tokyo's Ariake Arena Oct. 13-14 in Japan, with Junto Nakatani, Takuma Inoue and Kosei Tanaka, among others, starring on the bill.
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[drablj]

junto - takuma should be on that card. the time is now. junto's fight is terrible. the rest of them are good. let's hope bam fights martinez this year.

[Elheath]

junto - takuma should be on that card. the time is now. junto's fight is terrible. the rest of them are good. let's hope bam fights martinez this year.

Nakatani fighting Petch is literally him just getting a stay busy fight because Takuma was unavailable and he only fought one round last fight in July.

If anything Takuma-Tsutsumi is more of the "main" part of the card that was guaranteed to happen and a must, given that it was part of the prize Tsutsumi got for winning the Ohashi promoted Bantamweight MONSTER tournament last December on the Inoue-Tapales undercard where the tragic death of Kazuki Anaguchi happened, where the prize was 10 million yen and a world title fight in 2024.

[Coreytrevor12]

Damn, Petch is already up to 76 wins? He's going to break 100 easily

[Elheath]

My personal opinion on the seven title fights:

• Nakatani-Petch: a complete stay busy fight but due to the other beltholders occupied/unavailable it can't be helped. Just getting rid of the WBC number one guy while he hopes for an unification next fight is fine by me, he fights often enough and its not like he's dodging someone better available. Hopefully he can get an unification next spring or so.
• Takuma-Tsutsumi: as mentioned above, arguably one of the most prioritized fight of the card and as a Japanese viewer certainly looking forward to it. Has Vargas due as a mandatory next spring but if they can get an unification set up with Nakatani it would be nice.
• Teraji-Rosales / Olascuaga-Gonzalez: two champions from 108 coming up and going for a 112 belt, no complaints. Including Akui hopefully they are up for some unifications next year.
• Akui-Charunphak: also seems like a total stay busy but if it leads to an unification next fight it will be all forgiven.
• Iwata-Noriega: hoping to collect what is left behind by Teraji and Gonzalez. Neutral feeling mildly rooting for Iwata.
• Tanaka-Cafu: got effed last month by his irresponsible opponent, hopefully this one goes better. Not exactly exciting opponent but given Bam and Martinez are probably looking at eachother, number one Cataraja already having a fight scheduled this weekend, Rosales going for the 112 vacant belt, Choco having gone to bantam and Estrada already having done his annual fight for the year I guess number five Cafu is next.

[Elheath]

I just read Casimero is fighting Saul Sanchez on Oct 13 in Tokyo...in a different venue, about 1.5 hrs away from Ariake.

That his card is starting at noon tells how much the promoter got a headache knowing they got the Teiken card on same day.