Comments Thread For: Rob Brant Shocks Ryota Murata For Title, Derails Golovkin Plans

[paulf]

Shame on ESPN calling the fight completely in favor of Murata until the 9th Round and I guess Bradley said enough is enough and started calling it for Brant.

Cong**** to Brant, Boxed CIRCLES around Murata

Yeah, they were towing the company line pretty hard until one of them said "There are a lot of close rounds!" and Bradley was like "What? I'd give Murata maybe two? Brant is dominating!"

[HumanBag]

Another zou shiming. But with at least more success.

GGG now coming for rob's head. He cost him money.

[MagikLair]

from all places St. Paul, Minnesota. Not many champions come from there. Cong**** to Brant. I think the odds were 7-1. Not many bookies had it

[The3]

Only way GGG is gettin another Canelo paycheck is by fighting Charlo for his mandatory shot. Otherwise don’t see Canelo takin another GGG fight anytime soon.

He can just take Brant belt then force the WBA to call a unification to the WBA regular vs WBA Super

[TheCell8]

In terms of embarrassing losses in the past decade, this has to be right at the top.

Murata looked like a huge bum out there and lost pretty much every round. He should strongly consider retirement.

Golovkin lost probably $5-7M from this result.

Now his choices are to fight Charlo for the interim belt, or to fight Andrade for the WBO belt on DAZN. I'm guessing he's going to do the latter.

[Diego Rodriguez]

Big pay down the toilet for Golovkin. Will be interested to see what the next play is. No fight out there excluding Canelo is going to make him big bank.

From a fan perspective that is good. Be curious to see what he does but money will be the big consideration first off.

I think team Golovkin’s plans were really blown up tonight. If he is just looking for one last big fight and really doesn’t have the heart anymore to fight then he’ll play it safe and try and get one last shot at Canelo.

[Diego Rodriguez]

In terms of embarrassing losses in the past decade, this has to be right at the top.

Murata looked like a huge bum out there and lost pretty much every round. He should strongly consider retirement.

Golovkin lost probably $5-7M from this result.

Now his choices are to fight Charlo for the interim belt, or to fight Andrade for the WBO belt on DAZN. I'm guessing he's going to do the latter.

Or he can just agree to whatever Canelo is offering and fight him a third time. I really have no idea what Golovkin is thinking at this point and how committed he is to boxing. We haven’t heard really a peep. I do believe they wanted Murata because of the money.

[djb914]

Caleb Truax who was recently a 168 pound champ, I think he beat (Like Brant did) an Olympic Gold Medalist for the title James Degale, then Degale won the rematch, so Minnesota has 2 top fighters at 160-168

[McDonald_Borgor]

Murata looked like a huge bum out there and lost pretty much every round. He should strongly consider retirement.

Why would he retire? He's barely starting, calm down dude. This aint his 58th match losing. Dude can bounce back from this loss multiple ways and fix flaws in his techniques.

[BigZ44]

Wow, I'm SHOCKED to hear about this result. Never would have thought Brant would beat Murata. WOW