Ryota Murat (15-2, 12 KOs) scored second round TKO win over Rob Brant (25-2, 17 KOs) in the main event of the evening in Osaka, Japan. Thus, Murats regained the WBA regular champion middleweight title that he lost to the American last year.
A live webcast of boxing evening from Osaka, Japan, in the main event of which the former world champion and Olympic gold medalist Ryota Murata will try to regain his title in a fight with the American Rob Brant, whom he unexpectedly lost by judges' decision in October last year in Las Vegas.
The owner cruiserweight world title Denis Lebedev (32-2, 23 KOs) announced the his retirement. The 39-year-old Russian last time fought last November, beating Mike Wilson on points.
On August 24 Philip Hrgovic (8-0, 6 KOs) has to return to the ring at the Matchroom Boxing evening in Mexico. The enemy of the 26-year-old Croat, who is rapidly coming up to heavyweight heights will be Mario Heredia (16-6-1, 13 KOs) who in his last fight defeated former world champion Samuel Peter.
The current world champion Rob Brant of US and the challenger from Japan former world champion and Olympic gold medalist Ryota Murata showed the same weight of 159.25 lb on the scales on the eve of their battle for the regular WBA middleweight title, which will be held tomorrow Friday, July 12, at EDION arena in Osaka, Japan.
On July 20 in Las Vegas the only boxing champion in eight weight categories Manny Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs) will face Keith Thurman (29-0, 22 KOs). The evening with the participation of the Filipino and the American will be shown in the United States in the system of paid broadcasts on FOX TV channel. Ten days before the fight Pac Man showed his shape at the media training session. The training was also attended by Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's longtime coach, with whom the Filipino did not cooperate in the past year.
Holly Holm (33-2-3, 9 KOs), left boxing and went to MMA, and she won the UFC belt. Recently, however, the famous American performs not so good, and that may encourage her to return to the ring when they offer her a big fight.
Egidijus Kavaliauskas (21-0-1, 17 KOs) is likely to become the next opponent for the WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford (35-0, 26 KOs). The bout may take place in October on the evening of boxing, organized in Omaha, the hometown of Crawford.
Danny Z and Michael "Shep" Shepherd preview Rob Brant vs Ryota Murata, Amir Khan vs Billy Dib, Rey Vargas vs Tomoki Kameda, Diego De La Hoya vs Ronny Rios fights.
Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (28-0-1, 20 KOs) said that his next opponent could be Trevor Bryan (20-0, 14 KOs). It is expected that the Englishman will return to the ring on October 5 in the United States.
