Of Junto Nakatani and the TMNT

 

Junto Nakatani is also a “turtle” but the Teenage Mutant Ninja type, figuratively.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or TMNT, named after four renowned real-life painters from the Renaissance era, have different skills and abilities we love to see in all the media they are in. Comics, video games, and movies. Name it.

The individual TMNT has downsides as well as strengths. Sans their negative attributes, immaturity, and silliness, each of their different traits if pooled in a boxer, that fighter would be nearly invincible.

Raphael is tough, Donatello is intelligent, Michaelangelo is quick and witty and Leonardo excels in decision making and those are their individual prized possessions. Putting them together with their combined power spells indomitability. You show and display such traits atop the boxing ring, sure as hell, you are already a winner.

And Junto Nakatani possesses those.

Junto Nakatani is my total “ninja turtle”. My fearless forecast is this: He will KO Alexandro Santiago in the middle rounds on February 24 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, in Tokyo, Japan. If he does that he will be the only boxer tucking a world title belt in 3 different weight classes within four years. 

Incidentally, after a decade, there is now a sequel to the 2014 TMNT movie titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: The Blood Bath this 2024.

To freshen up our memory, Nakatani won the vacant WBO flyweight title against my province mate Giemel Magramo and defended it four times in a row. Three of those four defenses were by KO.

Speaking of turtles, somebody who is salivating at the ambition and the thoughts of fighting the Japanese monster, declared that Naoya Inoue is just a turtle.

Yes, he is, but the fictional Gamera kind. That destructive turtle monster in Japanese cinema in the 60s.