On Saturday morning in Tokyo , 55,000 people will sit down in silence for the greatest Japanese fight in history.

The Tokyo Dome is sold out; the fight will stop a nation and the pay-per-view numbers might set a global record. The Japanese boxing renaissance is in full and beautiful flow: Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani are their two biggest stars.

Inoue’s figures are truly astounding, but Nakatani’s are similar; it is the rarest of fights in the most exotic of boxing locations . Two unbeaten men, both Japanese and both at their peaks, with multiple world championship belts on the line .

It is the type of fight that can be compared to the long-overdue showdown between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in their “Fight of the Century” over 50 years ago.…