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  IBF/IBO Middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin overcame a stern challenge in the form of WBA Middleweight world champion Ryota Murata to score an impressive ninth round stoppage on Saturday night at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo Japan. The two fighters were willing to engage immediately as both are known for their aggression. Early on, Golovkin’s jab had great success in setting up opportunities for him to land hard hooks and uppercuts to the head and body of Murata. Murata however, focused his offense on Golovkin’s body and had increasing success in landing right hooks to the body and right hands to the head from rounds two through five. The effects of the body shots Murata was able to land clearly impacted the forty year old Golovkin, who seemed to have trouble catching his breath for a time.   Despite the ebb and flow moving slightly in Murata’s favor at this point in the bout, Golovkin continued to exchange offense in what was really a highly competitive all-act...

  The official weigh-in for Saturday’s Middleweight world championship unification bout between IBF/IBO world champion Gennady Golovkin and WBA world champion Ryota Murata took place earlier today in Tokyo, Japan. The fight, which will take place in the early morning hours here in the United States, at the Saitama Super Arena can be seen globally on digital subscription sports streaming network DAZN. Below are the official weights for the main event unification bout as well as other bouts scheduled to take place on the card. Weights for those bouts as well as confirmation as to whether those bouts will be televised as part of the early morning broadcast are below.     Main Event IBF/IBO/WBA Middleweight World Championship Unification Bout – 12Rds.     Gennady Golovkin (IBF/IBO world champion) 160lbs. vs. Ryota Murata (WBA world champion) 160lbs.     *Also scheduled to take place on this card/Weights and broadcast information for these bouts are u...

Longtime readers of this observer’s work in covering the sport of Boxing are likely familiar with the various columns I have written over the course of several years that chronicled the rise of Gennady Golovkin . A period of time in which the fighter known as “Triple G” or “GGG” for short in symbolism with the fighter’s three initials, carved out a consecutive knockout streak that I simply referred to as a “Path Of Destruction” through the 160lb. Middleweight division. As this streak continued and each opponent Golovkin had put in front of him fell , the obvious question of who would be able to take the fighter a full twelve round distance began emerging. While that question would eventually be answered in the form of Daniel Jacobs, who took Golovkin the distance in March 2017, the aura that Golovkin had built as one of Boxing’s feared “Knockout Artists” was still there.     This set the stage for what became Golovkin’s two battles with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in September 2017 ...