Ryota Murata gave Gennadiy Golovkin a lot of trouble in the first five rounds of their fight Saturday. Once an aged Golovkin got into a rhythm, however, Golovkin battered the courageous Japanese champion over the final three-plus rounds of their middleweight title unification fight. Golovkin eventually dropped Murata in the ninth round and stopped him…
Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs), from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, boxing’s most dominant middleweight of his era, is bringing the Big Drama Show and his IBF and IBO world title belts to his opponent’s backyard, Japan, where he will rumble with two-time WBA middleweight kingpin Ryota Murata (16-2, 13 KOs), in a long-awaited title unification fight….
For a lot of time, Gennady Golovkin and Ryota Murata have been looking at fighting one another. Now, as has been reported by multiple sites, with Mike Coppinger breaking the news, the two have “an agreement in principle,” with the fight to take place in Japan on December 28th. Reportedly, the fight, set for Tokyo,…
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