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<h2> A mega event worth 10 billion yen</h2>
 On May 2, a professional boxing double world title match was held at the Tokyo Dome, where the unified super bantamweight champion of four organizations, Naoya Inoue (33), defeated the former three-weight world champion, Jyunjin Nakatani (28), by a unanimous decision to defend his title.
 Fifty-five thousand people attended the event, which was broadcast live to the world via PPV. The box-office revenue is expected to be the highest in the history of Japanese martial arts, surpassing the 5 billion yen earned by &#8220;The Match&#8221; between Tenshin Nasukawa and Takeru Nasukawa four years ago.
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 Tickets to the event, which were priced at 330,000 yen (the highest price) and 11,000 yen (the lowest), sold out quickly, with the PPV on NTT Docomo&#8217;s video distribution service &#8220;Lemino&#8221; priced at 6,050 yen for advance purchase and 7,150 yen for purchase on the day of the event.
 According to some reports, the event could have been a 10-billion-yen mega-event if the broadcasting rights fee from the live broadcast on DAZN, a video distribution service specializing in sports, the 8,200-yen ticket fee for live viewing at 116 movie theaters nationwide, sponsorship income, and merchandise sales are included. The fight money for the fighters was also high.
 Naturally, the fight money for the athletes is also at an all-time high. Naoya Inoue is said to have received several billion yen, Nakatani several hundred million to one billion yen, and Kazusho Ioka (37) and Takuma Inoue (30) around 500 million yen.
 The &#8220;Inoue-Nakatani&#8221; match was also a heated battle that made one&#8217;s hands sweat.
 The two fighters exchanged highly technical skills, and neither allowed a clean hit until the sixth round. In the middle of the fight, there was a scene in which Nakatani bled due to accidental batting, but that is part of the world of competition. Inoue won the defense 3-0 with his superior hands to the end.
 On the Internet
 The first round went by in the blink of an eye.
 Both fighters did a great job of bargaining.
 Both fighters had a great game.
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 All seven fights were decided by decision. The total time was seven and a half hours.
 The reason why there are so many praises on social networking sites is partly because the way people watch has changed with the times. People who really want to see the fight of the century go to the venue and watch the PPV. Being familiar with no small amount of boxing, I was very satisfied with the Inoue-Nakatani fight, which seemed to be the favorite of the experts. If this had been broadcast nationally on TV, the online reaction would have been different.&#8221; (Sports newspaper reporter)
 In the past, it would have been broadcast on TV even if I had kept quiet. There must have been people who were forced to watch by their fathers, who controlled the channels, and who became addicted to the appeal of boxing, and there must have been people who found it boring.
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<h2> Takemoto insisted on terrestrial broadcasting.</h2>
 But in the future, the culture will become one in which only those who want to see the matches will pay to see them. This would be more financially beneficial to the organizations and athletes.
 The controversial pay-per-view broadcast of the WBC, which ended in March, was exclusively distributed by Netflix. The WBC was distributed exclusively by Netflix, but Japanese TV stations that failed to acquire the broadcasting rights were criticized one after another in the process.
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 Unlike boxing, baseball has long been a part of Japan&#8217;s everyday life. That is why there was a rejection of pay-per-view distribution, and I don&#8217;t think this trend will change in the future.
 Another big match in the fighting world took place during the Golden Week holidays: the retirement match of Takeson (34), which took place on April 29 at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo.
 His opponent was &#8220;nemesis&#8221; Lottan Jitmuangnon (Thailand). Although the odds were stacked against him, he ended his career with a spectacular 5-round KO victory.
 The audience cheered loudly. Unlike the Inoue-Nakatani fight mentioned above, this bout was broadcast as a full round from 10:00 p.m. to 11:24 p.m. on the Fuji Television network. A Fuji TV official told this website, &#8220;Until Fuji decided to broadcast the match, it was a very difficult decision to make,
 I heard that there were some twists and turns before Fuji decided to air the fight. Because it is a martial arts event, compliance, including anti-company measures, is a must. There were people who heard that &#8216;ONE,&#8217; to which Takezo belongs, was planning to broadcast the event on terrestrial wave, and there were people who spread disturbing information in an attempt to obstruct it,&#8221; he revealed.
 He revealed.
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 After the match, social networking sites
 It reminded me of the excitement of K-1 in the old days.
 Thank you for a great retirement match.
 Thank you for a great retirement match. Few people had any qualms about the dramatic ending.
 A Fuji Television official said, &#8220;People said this on terrestrial broadcasting, which can be watched by anyone,
 &#8220;It was tremendous of Takehito to have this much said about him on a terrestrial broadcast that anyone can watch. It&#8217;s as if he single-handedly led the show to success.
 Takekoto is a kickboxing fighter who has been struggling in the kickboxing world. Takemoto insisted on terrestrial broadcasting in order to become a catalyst for the sluggish kickboxing world.
 Inoue vs. Nakatani,&#8221; which generated a &#8220;profit&#8221; that was off the charts. Nakatani&#8217;s retirement match was a sensational success. There is no doubt that both events were filled with the charm of the martial arts.

 YUTAKA/Afro Sports (1st), Takahiro Kagawa (2nd)

 Naoya Inoue defeated Jyunjin Nakatani, a former world champion in three weight classes, by a unanimous decision. The heated fight was broadcast in PPV format, and was said to be a big match worth 10 billion yen. Another charismatic fighter, Takemasa, had his retirement match broadcast on terrestrial wave and ......

The &#8220;profitable&#8221; Naoya Inoue vs. Jyunjin Nakatani and the &#8220;moving&#8221; retired fight by Takeru generated the different viewer culture and reverberations.

The “profitable” Naoya Inoue vs. Jyunjin Nakatani and the “moving” retired fight by Takeru generated the different viewer culture and reverberations.

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