Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani are ready to square off in what would be the biggest fight in Japanese boxing history.

Three-weight world champion Nakatani has vacated his WBC, IBF and Ring Magazine bantamweight crowns to step up into Inoue's current weight class. An all-Japanese superfight is pencilled in for the ...

Two of world’s best pound-for pound fighters must first clear Mexican opposition before meeting in biggest fight in Japan’s ...

On the eve of a career-defining stretch, boxing's most dominant and least revealing superstar offers almost nothing — and ...

An unthinkable tragedy hit the boxing world when two Japanese boxers on the same card died following brain injuries suffered during different fights at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Aug. 2. Shigetoshi ...

Drastic weight loss, ferocious sparring and lax regulation have created a dangerous environment in Japanese boxing, as the sport battles for its future in the country after two fighters died. Super ...

Two Japanese boxers died from the same brain injury sustained in separate bouts on the same card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Both boxers were 28 years old. The Japanese Boxing Commission is changing ...

Following the ring deaths of Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa last week, authorities in Japan have worked together to make improvements to keep their boxers safer. An emergency meeting took ...

Two Japanese boxers have died from injuries sustained in separate fights on the same card during an event in Tokyo earlier this month. Shigetoshi Kotari died on Friday, a day before it was announced ...