One is known as "The Monster," the other "Big Bang."
The bout between champion boxers Naoya Inoue 30-0-0, 27 KOs and Junto Nakatani 31-0-0, 24 KOs is already being billed as Japan's "fight of the century." And the date hasn't even been set.
Sports pundits are hailing what's happening these days as the golden age of Japanese boxing. And this is a nation that has produced its share of Hall of Famers .
For a period last year, all four division bantamweight champions were Japanese. The Ring magazine's latest Top Ten pound-for-pound ranking has three Japanese fighters, including Inoue and Nakatani.
Both Nakatani and Inoue have at least one fight before their dream match. But no one is expecting either of them to lose.