
GGG Stops Murata In 9
Would it be the Gennadiy Golovkin of old or an old Gennadiy Golovkin? That was the question going into GGG's clash against Ryota Murata.
Would it be the Gennadiy Golovkin of old or an old Gennadiy Golovkin? That was the question going into GGG's clash against Ryota Murata.
Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata battle on Saturday, April 9 at approximately 8 am ET.
The fight is back on! Gennadiy "GGG" Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) will rumble with two-time WBA middleweight kingpin Ryōta Murata (16-2, 13 KOs), in a long-awaited title unification fight.
Rob “Bravo” Brant and Ryota Murata have a painful shared history. They waged a toe-to-toe battle last October in Las Vegas that saw Brant wrest the WBA middleweight title away from Murata via unanimous decision.
Ryota Murata became a star in his home country of Japan after winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
It’s breakfast with the middleweights on Sunday, April 15, as Ryota Murata makes the first defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title against Italian challenger Emanuele ‘Sioux’ Blandamura at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.
On Saturday, May 20, 2017, Hassan N'Dam (36-3, 21 KOs) scored a controversial split decision victory against Ryota Murata (12-1, 9 KOs) to capture a version of the WBA Middleweight title at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan.
No one is watching tomorrow night's fight for the vacant WBA World middleweight title between Japan's Ryota Murata #2-rated and France's #1-rated Hassan N'Dam, at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan, more closely than WBA #3 contender Rob "Bravo" Brant and his promoter, Greg Cohen.
Teiken Promotions and Top Rank®, have begun negotiations for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight world title between interim WBA middleweight champion Hassan N'Dam and undefeated No. 2 world-rated contender Ryota Murata.