Junto Nakatani will defend his WBC bantamweight title in opposition to Vincent Astrolabio in the present day in Tokyo, headlining a card that may stream stay on ESPN+ beginning at 5 am ET.
Nakatani (27-0, 20 KO) claimed the title in his final struggle, stopping Alexandro Santiago within the sixth spherical on Feb. 24. He had beforehand received world titles at flyweight and tremendous flyweight.
Astrolabio (19-4, 14 KO) is available in from the Philippines as an enormous underdog, however has the facility to be harmful. He rattled off wins over Guillermo Rigondeaux and Nikolai Potapov earlier than a majority determination loss to Jason Moloney final yr, and received an eliminator in his final outing in Aug. 2023.
Additionally on the cardboard: Riku Kano (22-4-2, 11 KO) and Anthony Olascuaga (6-1, 4 KO) meet for the vacant WBO flyweight title, and crossover fight star Tenshin Nasukawa (3-0, 1 KO) takes on Jonathan Rodriguez (17-2-1, 7 KO) in a 10-round tremendous bantamweight struggle, which on paper is Nasukawa’s hardest boxing check to this point. The deliberate WBO tremendous flyweight title struggle that includes Kosei Tanaka making a protection was canceled after his opponent missed weight.
