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. The 33-year-old Murata will face ninth-ranked contender Steven Butler of Canada at Yokohama ...
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. Murata's bout followed another world title fight at Edion Arena, where Kenshiro Teraji, whose ring name is Ken Shiro, successfully defended his WBC light flyweight ...
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. Murata lost the middleweight crown to Brant of the United States by unanimous decision in his ...
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. After losing by unanimous decision to American Rob Brant in his second title defense, the 32-year-old Murata said he would consider whether to keep boxing or retire. "I ...
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. The 32-year-old Murata, the 2012 London Olympic middleweight champion, said he was only able to sleep for 30 minutes ...
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. The 32-year-old Murata, who was crowned champion in October last year, will headline a card at ...
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. Earlier, the WBA had announced that Murata's Teiken Gym and promoter Top Rank had rejected a 50-50 split of the purse against second-ranked challenger Rob Brant. Regardless ...
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. But he still breathed a sigh of relief after successfully defending his title for the first time with an eight-round technical knockout victory over ...
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. It might have taken a little more time than fans expected, but he got the job done anyway. Murata successfully retained his WBA middleweight belt by ...
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. And he calls Japan one of "my favorite" nations to work in. The 59-year-old Lennon, the ring announcer when Ryota Murata captured the WBA middleweight ...
Murata, Blandamura set for WBA title rumble
Ryota Murata is not a bluffer, so he does not lie about how he feels. Two days before his first title defense at Yokohama Arena against Emanuele Blandamura, the WBA middleweight champion said at a Tokyo news conference on Friday that he could not comment ...
WBA middleweight world champion Ryota Murata will have his first title defense against a fighter who people might think is a cushy opponent. But the Japanese boxer is keen to emphasize that there are no easy fights. The 32-year-old Murata, who captured the belt in a ...
