Tso Time In Hong Kong: Rex Tso, Ryota Murata Score KO Wins
A pair of fourth-round knockouts were offered by rising super flyweight Rex Tso and middleweight prospect Ryota Murata in separate bouts Saturday evening in Hong Kong.
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Arum Reveals Details of Crawford vs. Postol PPV Undercard
On the heels of significant progress made in finalizing terms for the upcoming World super lightweight championship between unbeaten titlists Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol, the staff at Top Rank has begun moving towards putting together the pieces of the undercard.
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Top Rank Motivated To Continue Staging Events in China
On January 30th at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, two-time gold medalist Zou Shiming scored an eighth round stoppage of Natan Santana Coutinho. In the past, Shiming headlined in Macao but with the downturn in the casino business over there, the focus of Top Rank's Asian boxing program has shifted.
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Shiming Zou Returns With Win; Murata Drills Vega In Two
Zulpikar Maimaitiali remained unbeaten following a 3rd round stoppage of Australia's Steve Moxon. The unbeaten super middleweight prospect from Urumqi - an industrial hub in China's northwest region - maintained control from the opening, offering a healthy mix of boxing and slugging before forcing Moxon into submission late in round three. Maimaitiali improves to 6-0 (4KOs). Moxon falls to 5-3 (4KOs) heads back to Australia with his third straight loss.
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Ryota Murata Faces Gaston Alejandro on 1/30 in Shanghai
Teiken Promotions have announced that Olympic gold medalist winner Ryota Murata (8-0, 5 KOs), who is ranked at #4 in the WBC's middleweight raitings, will face Gaston Alejandro Vega (24-10-1, 10 KOs) of Argentina on January 30th in Shanghai.
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Murata, Reed, Marriaga, Kavaliauskas Win in Vegas
Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas - Opening things up, Lithuanian Olympian Egidijus "Mean Machine" Kavaliauskas (10-0, 9KOs), who is trained by Robert Garcia, demolished Jake Giuriceo (17-5-1, 4KOs) in the first minute of the first round. Egis dropped Giuriceo right away with the first bomb that connected. Giuriceo made it up, but referee Russell Mora felt he was too hurt to continue the fight. The fight was called at exactly 1:00 of the first
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Video: Ryota Murata Discusses His American Debut
One of the sport’s best fighters returns to the ring to battle one of the game’s most popular sluggers when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: TIMOTHY BRADLEY JR. VS. BRANDON RIOS AND VASYL LOMACHENKO VS. ROMULO KOASICHA is presented SATURDAY, NOV. 7 at 9:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, exclusively on HBO.
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Ryota Murata To Make U.S. Debut on Bradley-Rios Card
The undercard is still taking shape for the November 7 HBO-televised welterweight clash between Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios, but will include no fewer than two Olympic Gold medalists. Ryota Murata joins fellow 2012 Olympic Gold medalist Vasyl Lomachenko in supporting action, with both fighters appearing in separate bouts at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lomachenko—who claimed Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012—defends his featherweight title versus Mexico’s Romulo Koasicha in the opening bout of the HBO doubleheader.
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Linares Captures Gold: Murata, Matsumoto, T. Inoue Win
Metropolitan Gym, Tokyo, Japan - Jorge Linares (38-3, 25 KOs) became a three division world champion by capturing the vacant WBC lightweight championship as he knocked out Javier Prieto (24-8-2, 18 KOs) in the fourth round. The belt was taken from Omar Figueroa by the World Boxing Council, due to Figueroa's extended layoff from injuries and recent statements regarding his inability to make the lightweight limit.
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Photos/Weights: Narvaez-Inoue, Linares-Prieto, Yaegashi
The official weigh-in was held for Teiken Promotions' “Boxing Fest 2014 Súper Boxeo” - which takes place on December 30th at the Metropolitan Gym in Tokyo, Japan. Jorge Linares (37-3, 24 KOs) faces Javier "Implacable" Prieto (24-7-2, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBC lightweight title. Linares came in at 134.75-pounds and Prieto was 134.5. WBO super flyweight champion Omar "Huracán" Narváez (43-1-2, 23 KOs) defends his title against rising Japanese star Naoya Inoue (7-0, 6 KOs). Narvaez was 114.25-pounds and Inoue was 115.
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