Right now, in the principle occasion in Tokyo, Japan, and within the remaining struggle of the two-day boxing extravaganza staged within the nation, WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani scored a really spectacular sixth spherical TKO over a sport however out-skilled Petch Sor Chitpattna.
Within the conflict of southpaws, Nakatani scored two heavy knockdowns over his Thai challenger, the champion’s sharp and punishing left hand doing the injury.
Chitpattna made it again to his ft after the primary knockdown, and to his credit score he dug in and tried to struggle again, however then one other, much more crushing left hand to the pinnacle drained the challenger of all the things he had left, and this time Chitpattna rolled onto his again, his problem over.
Time was 2:59 of spherical six and the excellent Nakatani is now 29-0(22), along with his final three fights of this 12 months ending by way of stoppage. Chitpattna falls to en eye-catching 76-2(53) with most of his fights having taken place in Thailand.
Nakanati, in his prime, we predict, at age 26, was thrilling in addition to expert at this time. Making it a enjoyable struggle for some time, Nakatani was caught a little bit, this because the 30 12 months outdated challenger swung as finest he may, his left hand touchdown a few occasions.
However Nakatani was in cost all the best way, and it appeared like he may have opened up and stopped Chitpattna fairly any time he needed to. Nakatani, who fights along with his fingers held low, his unimaginable reflexes doing the work for him, was touchdown with frequency by the third and fourth rounds, and he clearly needed one other KO win.
This duly got here, in model, in spherical six. Nakatani would possibly simply be about as flawless a fighter as you possibly can level to at this time, this aspect of……….Naoya Inoue. It’s no secret these two Japanese stars and pound-for-pound operators are on a collision course. Nakatani strikes on to who is aware of who subsequent (perhaps newly topped WBA bantamweight champ Seiya Tsutsumi, who upset “The Monster’s” brother Takuma Inoue yesterday), however that huge all-Japanese super-fight will certainly occur subsequent 12 months.
And, as super-special as Inoue and Nakatani each are, who on earth can decide a winner right here?
