Gennady Golovkin’s next fight: Ryota Murata named as frontrunner for Japan bout

[Fenster]

Murata is a top 5 middleweight who is totally overlooked because he's Japanese. Barring the obvious top two, Jacobs and Saunders nobody else really has any form to surpass him. Great matchup.

And the very fact they plan to hold it the Tokyo Dome says it all. Canelo is the only other middleweight who can pack a 60,000 stadium.

Curious, who downgrades Murata because he’s Japanese?

The average western boxing media/fan.

Murata's last fight got 17 million TV viewers in Japan, it wasn't even shown in America or the UK. Most people on this forum who consider themselves "hardcore" probably think "who the funk is Murata?" when reading this thread title, his fights don't even get a mention (barring the odd few of us).

And to answer the post you deleted...

Murata's two wins over N'Dam is better form at 160 than anything Charlo, Andrade and Derevyanchenko have done. He has a WBA title and is a former Olympic Gold Medalist. He has credentials.

That post didn’t stand up for long

Admittedly got it from BoxRec, but it seems one of those fights with N'Dam was a LOSS. Aside from that, just a bunch of no-names in a short, unremarkable pro career.

I'm all for giving Japanese fighters their due. Just not leaping overboard while doing it.

Sorry to point this out but the irony can't be ignored.

[TitoFan]

Murata is a top 5 middleweight who is totally overlooked because he's Japanese. Barring the obvious top two, Jacobs and Saunders nobody else really has any form to surpass him. Great matchup.

And the very fact they plan to hold it the Tokyo Dome says it all. Canelo is the only other middleweight who can pack a 60,000 stadium.

Curious, who downgrades Murata because he’s Japanese?

The average western boxing media/fan.

Murata's last fight got 17 million TV viewers in Japan, it wasn't even shown in America or the UK. Most people on this forum who consider themselves "hardcore" probably think "who the funk is Murata?" when reading this thread title, his fights don't even get a mention (barring the odd few of us).

And to answer the post you deleted...

Murata's two wins over N'Dam is better form at 160 than anything Charlo, Andrade and Derevyanchenko have done. He has a WBA title and is a former Olympic Gold Medalist. He has credentials.

That post didn’t stand up for long

Admittedly got it from BoxRec, but it seems one of those fights with N'Dam was a LOSS. Aside from that, just a bunch of no-names in a short, unremarkable pro career.

I'm all for giving Japanese fighters their due. Just not leaping overboard while doing it.

Sorry to point this out but the irony can't be ignored.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..."