Naoya Inoue v Junto Nakatani: undisputed super-bantamweight championship – live updates

• Tokyo Dome hosts biggest fight in Japanese history

• Naoya Inoue is the greatest show in sports today

• Inoue and Nakatani slated for 1pm BST/8am EDT

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Welcome to the Tokyo Dome for what’s sure to be an unforgettable occasion in the annals of Japanese sport. Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani, two multiple-weight boxing champions with identical 32-0 records, meet tonight at a sold-out stadium in a long-awaited showdown that has been accurately billed as the biggest fight in Japan’s rich boxing history. A crowd of 55,000 fans have packed the Big Egg during the Golden Week holiday with countless more watching in sold-out cinemas across the country.

For Inoue, this is familiar terrain. The 33-year-old undisputed 122lb champion has spent nearly his entire professional life carving through boxing’s weight divisions with a unique cocktail of speed, footwork and concussive power, winning titles at 108lb and 115lb before unifying all four major belts at bantamweight and super-bantamweight in a destructive ascent that has drawn comparisons to Manny Pacquiao. Known as the Monster, he enters tonight’s bout on a run of 28 straight wins in world championship fights and rarely been extended the distance, even if recent outings have offered flickers of vulnerability.

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