Mar 16
Some vicious shots from Rob Brant on Ryota Murata
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Some vicious shots from Rob Brant on Ryota Murata
Ryota Murata says his career is over, though he stopped short of making a formal retirement announcement.
Olympic gold medalist and two time middleweight champion Ryota Murata calls it a career.
Great match-up and great fight between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata in Saitama, Japan today. Golovkin went w a fairly standard template for him in pale blue and gold, matching Grant gloves and pretty incongruous footwear. Murata wore a navy blue, white and red set by Nike with black gloves and black and gold Nike footwear.
Gennady Golovkin stops Ryota Murata - 4/9/2022
Spirited effort by Murata but GGG was too much
Fight night tonight!
Jr Lightweight champion Mikaela Mayer will be defending her titles against Texan Jennifer Han tonight in the main event on ESPN. Card starts circa 10pm ET. But they have an interesting undercard with former USA Boxing captain Virginia Fuchs making her pro debut on the 7pm ESPN+ prelims. Plus the brothers Moloney will be in action.
Also tonight, though in the way early morning will be GGG-Murata
Card starts at 5am ET and I think I read GGG-Murata will be around 8am ET. Undercard has some heat though. Junto Nakatani is much watch. Absolute beast.
Fucking love boxing. Ryota Murata lost his middleweight title to Rob Brant back in November in a fight in a fight where Brant threw almost 1300 punches and landed at a clip of 2 to 1. Murata came back yesterday and just beat the hell out of Brant and got him out of there in 2 rounds. Absolutely fantastic!
Ryota Murata vs Hassan N'Dam 1 - WBA World Middleweight Title
2012 Olmypic gold medalist Ryota Murata (12-1, 9 KOs) was robbed of history in his first shot at a world title when he faced off with N’Dam. Had the decision gone the right way, Murata would have been only the 2nd Japanese fighter in history to win a world title at middleweight alongside Shinji Takehara.
Hassan N'Dam (36-2, 21 KOs) was coming off a bit of a rough spot himself when these two fought the first time. While he had won five straight in the pro ranks, he was one of a handful of pros to compete at the 2016 Olympics under AIBA’s new rules. He was bounced in the first round 3-0 by Michel Borges of Brazil.
Murata and N’Dam will face off again this Sunday (Oct. 22) on ESPN 2.