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On the night of September 27, 2026, a live-commentary thread went up on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyou G” board for a boxing card streamed on Amazon Prime Video. The card featured Inoue Naoya’s interim super bantamweight title bout and a fight from Nasukawa Tenshin, and viewers ranged widely in their chat — guessing the broadcast start time, predicting how the fights would play out, and more. While praise for Inoue Naoya’s strength poured in throughout the thread, opinions on Tenshin split between “he’s got nothing left to grow into” pessimism and hope for a one-punch comeback.
What people said
I've got Amazon Prime, but I'm watching Seki, right?
The main event's probably around nine? Or something.
Let's honor that achievement by calling him "Big Mara" (mara is old slang for "penis" — a crude nickname joke).
You'd already come up with that nickname mid-fight, hadn't you? 🧐
With terrestrial TV you could sometimes guess it from the show's broadcast slot, but who knows how that works for a streaming broadcast.
This card is for the "interim title" —
Inoue Naoya holds the "regular title."
It is Inoue's belt, but he suffered an orbital fracture this spring, so I think this is set up as an interim title match to cover the vacancy while he's out.
Thanks, I'm off to buy booze now.
Sorry if I jumped the gun 🥺
He's probably got no growth left in him, so it looks tough — unless he pulls off some kind of awakening… There's nothing to be done about his lack of punching power at this point. His only real shot is running away and chasing points as relentlessly as possible.
It's been 8 years since he fought Mayweather, and he was already living a boxing-focused training life even before that. If he's still in this state after all that, it really is over — genuinely no growth potential left.
And point-boxing while running depends heavily on technique, which makes it even harder for him… Feels like his only option is an all-or-nothing brawl up close, but even then I don't think he stands a chance.
Last time, against Takuma, he couldn't do a thing in close range and just got beaten up. Has he actually grown since then?
If he's going for it, I'd love to see him turn it into a messy slugfest like something out of a manga.
Didn't Goodman get paid in oil money for the Paul fight? Still hasn't paid off his debts?
What is with that power and speed?
Vegas, Vegas!!!
It really highlights how great Takuma is too.
His opponent has been sharpening solid boxing fundamentals since childhood, so the skill gap is so wide there's little room for mistakes even in close range…
Not to bring up Kameda Koki's infamous second title defense, but there's also the strategy of fouling to throw off an opponent's movement and focus. In that Kameda fight he tried to win it straight and only started fouling near the end when it wasn't working — but for Nasukawa, if he's going to foul, doing it in the early rounds would make more sense, since he already knows a straight fight is going to be brutal.
It'd be hilarious if he's turned into a genuinely dirty fighter.
Nah, he's with Teiken (his promotion) — that's not happening.
Headbutts and vertical elbows up close, locking the opponent's elbow in the clinch, thumbing the eyes…
Stuff like that could actually work in close range. The Kameda corner reportedly called those exact moves before, so it's probably a fairly standard set of dirty tactics.
But thinking about it, dirty tactics are still tactics — pulling them off well takes some skill, or at least practice. The question is whether he's even had time to build that up…
Inoue's camp has probably prepared for dirty tactics too. If a better fighter reads it coming, even the foul attempt gets dodged.
In combat sports, having your foul attempt get seen through and dodged looks incredibly embarrassing lol
Does it get more compelling once you know the finer points?
Well, tonight's card isn't exactly the best matchup, so cut it some slack.
He is insanely strong, though —
42-0 in kickboxing,
4-0 in MMA,
and a boxing legend at 8-1.
Well, Naoya himself has said Takuma's the stronger one…
Neither of them hits hard, so we're in for the long haul to a decision.
I'm gonna fall asleep before it's over.
Though I doubt he's got that kind of room to spare this time.
Last time he did the arm-windmill taunt and then got completely shut out, so surely he won't try that again this time.
If he fights it straight, the skill gap means he won't even land a punch.
I think he'll go for broke, but how far he gets will come down to sheer guts.
Background and key points of this discussion
The “interim title” discussed in the thread exists because Inoue Naoya suffered an orbital fracture this spring and has been unable to fight while still holding the regular title — this match was arranged to fill that vacancy in the meantime. Notably, the thread’s focus shifted away from Inoue himself and onto Nasukawa Tenshin’s bout; Tenshin has a strong track record in kickboxing and MMA, but in boxing he’s often seen as technically outmatched, and how he might make up for his lack of punching power became the main point of interest for viewers. The thread split between pessimism that he’d simply be overwhelmed by technique and hope for a one-shot upset, making this a fight that resisted being reduced to a simple strength comparison.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyou G”) thread “Amazon Prime Boxing Live Thread.”
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