The match ended with a technical knockout in the ninth round.
On Saturday, April 9, in Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo, a unification bout took place between IBF and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and WBA Super belt holder Ryota Murata.
The Kazakh boxer won early victory by technical knockout in the ninth round.
Murata started the fight more actively and tried to act as the first number, but closer to the middle of the fight, the 40-year-old Golovkin took the initiative and in the ninth three-minute period was able to surprise the opponent with a right. . hand, then the Japanese fell to his knees, and his corner threw a white towel.
So, Golovkin removed the WBA Super middleweight title from Murata.
For the Kazakh boxer, this is the first fight since December 2020.
Earlier, Gennady Golovkin announced when he would retire.
Source: korrespondent
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