I want to fight Takuma Inoue!” Jyunjin Nakatani, “the man who chases after monsters,” looks back on his “three-weight championship with a smile on his face.”
Last May, Nakatani hit a counter left hook that sent his opponent roaring to win the WBO super flyweight title. This blow was named <KO of the year> by the major U.S. media. But the left straight that took Santiago’s first down and the right hook that finished him off also looked like a coup de grace.
I felt that the right hook was the most powerful one,” he said.
There is a good chance that Nakatani will win this prize for the second year in a row. At the event where Nakatani won three weight classes, Tsunenari Tanaka won the belt he vacated, and Takuma Inoue, the WBA bantamweight champion, defended his title by KO.
Tanaka won the belt I had, but it’s already in the past, so I’m not particularly concerned about it. I am just happy to have won all three Japanese fighters. Takuma is in the same weight class as me, so I am aware of him. I think the fans will be happy with this card, and I really want to fight.”
Nakatani, who has won all 27 of his fights with 20 KOs and has won three weight classes, is not satisfied at all.
I am happy that I was able to control the fight and finish him. I learned once again that practice doesn’t lie, but it’s still just a passing phase for me.
Rudy also narrowed his eyes as he spoke.
I was surprised that he was able to slaughter Santiago so easily. Jundt really has a high boxing IQ. He is growing very fast. He can still get better.
The new WBC bantamweight champion, with a smile on his face in the ring, scored a shocking knockout victory. His momentum seems to be accelerating.
Interview and text by： Soichi Hayashi
Born in 969. Passed the professional boxing test as a junior lightweight, but suffered an injury to his left elbow. After working as a reporter for a weekly magazine, he became a nonfiction writer and educator, teaching at a public high school in the U.S. In 1996, he moved to the U.S. In 2014, he completed the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of "Minority Fist," "America's Lower Level Education Site," and "America's Problem Child Regeneration Classroom" (all Kobunsha e-books), "God's Ring," "The Door to the World: Forward! Samurai Blue," and "Hohime to Nurture Coaching" (all from Kodansha).
