"Everyone, if you're going to fight Inoue, now's the only chance. If it's next year or the year after, he'll become even more of a monster." In April 2013, Tomoki Sano, who fought Naoya Inoue in his third professional match, shouted those words. Just a year and a half later, Omar Narvaez, the Argentinian hero who had defended his world title a total of 27 times, suffered his first knockdown in 150 professional and amateur fights and was defeated in the second round. "I felt a huge difference between Inoue and me..." In 2016, the wife of Kohei Kono, a former world champion who decided to fight Inoue, pleaded with her husband, "Please, not Inoue!" Donaire, who lost in the WBSS final after a full-round battle, said, "I can win next time," but was knocked out in the second round in the rematch three years later. Boxers who have crossed gloves with the "Monster," who unified four titles in two weight classes, bantamweight and super bantamweight, and defeated Luis Nery at the Tokyo Dome, reflect on their own lives as they talk about his journey. This is a sports non-fiction work that won the 34th Mizuno Sports Writer Award for Excellence. [Contents of this book] Prologue Chapter 1: The Night Before the "Monster" (Tomoki Sano) Chapter 2: Japanese Light Flyweight Title Match (Ryoichi Taguchi) Chapter 3: Challenge to the World (Adrian Hernandez) Chapter 4: The Beginning of a Legend (Omar Narvaez) Chapter 5: The Ever-Evolving Monster (Masayuki Kuroda) Chapter 6: The Comeback Fight After a Year (Warlito Parrenas) Chapter 7: The Tenth Professional Fight, Twelve Rounds of Offense and Defense (David Carmona) Chapter 8: A Match Between New and Old Japanese World Champions (Kohei Kono) Chapter 9: First Landing in Las Vegas (Jason Moloney) Chapter 10: WBSS Victory and PFP Number One (Nonito Donaire) Chapter 11: What the Monster Created (Narvaez Jr.) Epilogue [Author's Biography] Masanori Moriai Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1972. Reporter for the Tokyo Shimbun Sports Department. He worked part-time at the Tokyo Korakuen Hall during his university days and saw martial arts, including boxing, up close. After graduating, he worked for a sports newspaper company and joined the Chunichi Shimbun in 2000. He was in charge of boxing and the London Olympics for "Tokyo Chunichi Sports," the Chunichi Dragons for "Chunichi Sports," and the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and Tokyo Olympics for "Tokyo Shimbun." He has also contributed to magazines and internet sites, and has interviewed Naoya Inoue before matches in "Weekly Playboy." His book includes "The Man Who Became the Model for Toru Rikiishi." Thank you for viewing.