Boxing Mar 14, 2021
Hiroto Kyoguchi defends WBA light flyweight title for third time
Fighting in the United States for the first time, the 27-year-old extended his perfect unbeaten record to 15-0 in his first bout since October 2019.
Boxing Jan 8, 2021
The World Boxing Association said Thursday it has promoted Japan's Ryota Murata to its middleweight super champion. The announcement comes a week after Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez vacated the title. Murata, the middleweight gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, became the WBA middleweight champion in ...
More Sports / Boxing Dec 23, 2019
Ryota Murata defends WBA middleweight title with TKO in Yokohama
by Kaz Nagatsuka
Ryota Murata successfully defended his WBA middleweight title with a fifth-round technical knockout of Steven Butler on Monday night. And if one of the sport’s most influential figures gets his wish, Murata will have an even bigger bout on home soil in the first half ...
More Sports / Boxing Jun 28, 2017
The purse bid for the WBA middleweight title rematch between Ryota Murata and Hassan N'Dam of France has been scheduled for July 7, the World Boxing Association said on its official website on Tuesday. The purse bid will be carried out because the two parties ...
More Sports / Boxing May 26, 2017
Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, the president of the World Boxing Association, on Thursday ordered a rematch of a middleweight title fight between Ryota Murata and Hassan N'Dam of France after the bout ended in controversy. Mendoza also said that two judges, Gustavo Padilla of Panama and ...
More Sports Aug 30, 2013
WBA bantamweight super champion Anselmo Moreno of Panama and Japan's regular bantamweight world champion Koki Kameda have been summoned to negotiate a mandatory fight for the outright championship of the division, the World Boxing Association said on its official Website. Both parties have until Sept. ...