Comments Thread For: Ryota Murata vs. Emanuele Blandamura on April 15 in Japan

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World Boxing Association "regular" middleweight champion Ryota Murata will fight world No. 10 Emanuele Blandamura of Italy on April 15 at Yokohama Arena in his first title defense since winning the belt last October, his gym announced Monday. Murata was crowned champion after beating France's Hassan N'Dam by TKO in the seventh round of their rematch, becoming only the second-ever middleweight titleholder from Japan following Shinji Takehara in 1995.
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[DuckAdonis]

Fight is alright

[1hourRun]

Billy Joe leftovers, nearly 40 years of age and cant punch ( five KO's! ) and he just barely beat Matteo Signani for the euro-middleweight title?!

You know I just find it funny how boxingscene and f*ghtnews have Murata and the 'regular' WBA champions just under the 'Super' champions in BOLD letters implying they are legit 'champions' -- you notice that they dont have the WBC 'Silver' champion with any special distinction? Boxingscne needs to stop recognizing that paper title.

Bring on a Demetrius Andrade, or a Rob Brant! Emanuele Blandamura is not world level!

[Lester Tutor]

Arum needs a reminder that he has a good Middleweight. What is Arum doing?

[Tatabanya]

Billy Joe leftovers, nearly 40 years of age and cant punch ( five KO's! ) and he just barely beat Matteo Signani for the euro-middleweight title?!

You know I just find it funny how boxingscene and f*ghtnews have Murata and the 'regular' WBA champions just under the 'Super' champions in BOLD letters implying they are legit 'champions' -- you notice that they dont have the WBC 'Silver' champion with any special distinction? Boxingscne needs to stop recognizing that paper title.

Bring on a Demetrius Andrade, or a Rob Brant! Emanuele Blandamura is not world level!

All correct. The Italians from the 80s on have always had a way of getting their nonen****** fighting for (and sometimes winning) titles of some kind. Just think of an absolute mediocrity like Patrizio Oliva, who feasted on cadavers until he was finally blasted out by Juan Martin Coggi. Or Gianfranco Rosi, who "won" titles by hugging and wrestling with his cheaper foes, but was destroyed any time he met a decent/good fighter (Lloyd Honeyghan, an already faded Don Curry, Vincent Pettway).

"Right" connections, they call them.

[robbyheartbaby]

Billy Joe leftovers, nearly 40 years of age and cant punch ( five KO's! ) and he just barely beat Matteo Signani for the euro-middleweight title?!

You know I just find it funny how boxingscene and f*ghtnews have Murata and the 'regular' WBA champions just under the 'Super' champions in BOLD letters implying they are legit 'champions' -- you notice that they dont have the WBC 'Silver' champion with any special distinction? Boxingscne needs to stop recognizing that paper title.

Bring on a Demetrius Andrade, or a Rob Brant! Emanuele Blandamura is not world level!

Dude it's his first defense let him enjoy it, and the regular title has been around years.

[1hourRun]

Dude it's his first defense let him enjoy it, and the regular title has been around years.

lmao! the WBA is special then, it gets two champions everyone else gets one : It promotes its 'regular' champions to 'super' champions, these guys are hustling the lineage and everybody is going along with it -- lets be fair and start calling the WBC diamond belt a world title.

[Bronx2245]

Murata deserves a home-court fight. Jacobs is looking for the same thing! I just hope somebody gives Andrade some testosterone so maybe he'll face Sergiy Derevyanchenko!

[jas]

middleweight is one of the best divisions in boxing, if not the best along with light heavyweight

you got the top 4- ggg, canelo, billy joe, jacobs and then a very good second teir quartet- andrade, jermall, devychenko and murata- all of who are capable of beating the top tier middleweights

[m.brat]

First, to be fair, they should have mentioned where and when this news was seen days ago. But ok, th average level of boxing jounalism is not that fair, we already knew it.
Second, this article is incorrect as Blandamura is reported as the current EBU middle champion but he vacated that belt around 10 days ago.
And Tatabanya, please... such opportunities have arrived to thousads of boxers now and then, from every country, especially in this case where it is just a volontary defense and the Japan picked the opponent they wanted out of the WBA rankings. The Italian "good connections" is really laughable, you watched too many Scorsese's movies recently. We know the level of Italian boxing is not high at all and it has rolled all the way down in last 10/15 years, but why do you forget Giovanni Parisi or Giacobbe Fragomeni, who were legit titlists and good boxers? And for your information, Oliva was not "absolute mediocrity" at all. Sure, he lacked power but got a very smart boxing brain, good fundamentals and Ring IQ. Plus, he fought the second part of his career with one hand as he fractured the other hand several times. So c'mon, don't make a hater of yourself...