Ryota Murata: record, next fight and profile →
Ryota Murata has no excuses in his failed defense of the WBA "regular" middleweight world title on Saturday. He suffered what many saw as a one-sided defeat to mandatory challenger Rob Brant of the United States at Park Theater in Las Vegas. The scores were 118-110, 119-109 and 119-109.
Brant, Murata Fight Photos Gallery - Rob Brant came into the ring a heavy underdog. He left it a champion. Brant, from St. Paul, Minn., toppled Ryota Murata by unanimous decision to win the WBA middleweight title in front of 2,782 fans at the MGM’s Park Theater in Las Vegas.
A bravura performance for Rob "Bravo" Brant, who upset Ryota Murata to win the WBA's secondary middleweight title belt by throwing 1,262 punches, the second most ever recorded by CompuBox in a middleweight fight.
Rob Brant came into the ring a heavy underdog. He left it a champion. Brant, from St. Paul, Minn., toppled Ryota Murata by unanimous decision to win the WBA middleweight title in front of 2,782 fans at the MGM’s Park Theater in Las Vegas.
MGM's Park Theater, Las Vegas - Rob Brant (24-1, 16 KOs) practically dominated his way to a twelve round unanimous decision over Ryota Murata (14-2, 11 KOs) to capture the WBA "regular" middleweight title.
The selective Murata (last 2) threw well below middle avg., but landed 46% of his total punches and a whopping 57.4% of his power shots- 20% higher than middle. avg. Brant (last 3) landed/threw below the middle avg. for total punches, but did land nearly 6 jabs per round.
Brant, Murata Weights Photos Gallery - There has been a lot of talk about future big-name opponents for WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata. For now, he's focused on the task at hand, Saturday's title defense against Rob "Bravo" Brant at MGM's Park Theater in Las Vegas. (photos by Mikey Williams).
Rob Brant, who faces WBA 'regular' middleweight champion, Ryoto Murata, this Saturday night from the Park Theater in Las Vegas on ESPN+ hears the talk of the Japanese star facing Gennady Golovkin in 2019.
Should he win on Saturday night, Ryota Murata, the WBA "regular" middleweight champion, is going to move forward with a major fight in 2019. Murata defense his belt against mandatory challenger Rob Brant Park Theater at Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bout will be streamed live beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
LAS VEGAS - The stakes could be very high for Ryota Murata (14-1) on Saturday night at The Park on the Las Vegas strip. The fight will stream live on the ESPN+ app as part of ESPN's long term exclusive agreement with Top Rank Inc. to provide boxing content for both the ESPN network and their streaming service.