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RYOTA MURATA

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Mar 28, 2023
Olympic boxing champion Ryota Murata hangs up gloves
The Nara native retires with a professional record of 16-3, winning 13 by knockout.
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Feb 23, 2023
Former Olympic boxing champion Ryota Murata effectively retired
Ryota Murata, the first Japanese boxer to win both an Olympic and professional world championship, said Wednesday that he has effectively retired.
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Mar 3, 2022
Ryota Murata and Gennadiy Golovkin to meet in unification bout on April 9
Ryota Murata and Kazakhstan's Gennadiy Golovkin will meet for their WBA and IBF middleweight title unification fight on April 9 at Saitama Super Arena, organizers said Thursday.
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Nov 12, 2021
Ryota Murata to face Gennady Golovkin in middleweight unification bout in December
'He's the boxer I respect most. I want to beat him and prove that I'm strongest,' Murata said.
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Oct 28, 2021
Ryota Murata on track to meet Gennadiy Golovkin in blockbuster middleweight unification title fight
If confirmed, the blockbuster would be one of the biggest fights to ever take place in Japan.
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Jan 8, 2021
Ryota Murata promoted to WBA middleweight super champion
The World Boxing Association said Thursday it has promoted Japan's Ryota Murata to its middleweight super champion.
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Dec 23, 2019
Ryota Murata defends WBA middleweight title with TKO in Yokohama
Ryota Murata successfully defended his WBA middleweight title with a fifth-round technical knockout of Steven Butler on Monday night.
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Oct 17, 2019
Middleweight Ryota Murata to make title defense on Dec. 23
Murata, the 2012 London Olympic middleweight gold medalist, reclaimed the championship on July 12, in a technical knockout of American Rob Brant, who had dethroned Murata last October by unanimous decision.
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Jul 12, 2019
Ryota Murata reclaims WBA middleweight title with second-round TKO of Rob Brant
Ryota Murata regained the WBA middleweight championship Friday with a second-round technical knockout in a rematch with American Rob Brant.
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Apr 25, 2019
Ryota Murata gets rematch with WBA middleweight champ Rob Brant
Ryota Murata will get a shot at redemption when he faces WBA middleweight champion Rob Brant in a rematch on July 12 in Osaka, Teiken gym announced Thursday.
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Dec 4, 2018
Former WBA middleweight champ Ryota Murata plans to continue fighting
Ryota Murata, who lost his WBA middleweight title in October, announced Tuesday that he will continue his career.
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Oct 22, 2018
Ryota Murata calls loss to Rob Brant the worst beating of his career
Ryota Murata said Sunday he has never felt so beaten up following his loss to Rob Brant in the WBA middleweight world title bout on Saturday.
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Aug 30, 2018
Middleweight champ Ryota Murata to make title defense against Rob Brant
Ryota Murata will make a second defense of his WBA middleweight world title, this time against American challenger Rob Brant in Las Vegas in October, it was announced Thursday.
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Aug 14, 2018
Ryota Murata's camp calls off mandatory title defense due to money dispute
Ryota Murata will not make a mandatory defense of his WBA middleweight title, his gym chairman revealed Tuesday.
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Apr 16, 2018
Ryota Murata happy with progress after successful first title defense
Going into the fight, it looked unlikely WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata would lose his belt to obscure challenger Emanuele Blandamura.
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Apr 15, 2018
Ryota Murata defends WBA middleweight belt with eighth-round TKO win over Emanuele Blandamura
Ryota Murata's style of fighting is so simple: Press his opponent and use his deadly signature right to beat him.
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Apr 14, 2018
Ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. excited about return to Japan
World-renowned boxing and mixed martial arts ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. has introduced fighters in 35 countries in his long career.
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Apr 13, 2018
Murata, Blandamura set for WBA title rumble
Ryota Murata is not a bluffer, so he does not lie about how he feels.
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Jan 22, 2018
Ryota Murata announces first defense of WBA world middleweight title against Italian Emanuele Blandamura
WBA middleweight world champion Ryota Murata will have his first title defense against a fighter who people might think is a cushy opponent.
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Dec 20, 2017
Champion Hawks honored with Japan's top pro sports award
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks fittingly received the nation's top pro sports accolade for their dominant season in 2017.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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