WBA midweight super Murata Yoshita will play IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in the home match on April 9, and Murata vowed: "On April 9, the victory will belong to me. ”
36-year-old Yoshita Murata, the pride of Japanese boxing and once won the 75kg boxing title at the 2012 London Olympics, Golovkin's most recent match was on December 18, 2020, knocking out Polish player Kamil four times in 7 rounds. Seremita successfully defended her title and has not played in a long time. If this battle with Murata is successful, then he will have a three-time battle with the current boxing superstar Avarez.
Murata said: "It is an honor to compete with the great boxing champion Golovkin, and I am very pleased to participate in this historic middleweight united battle in Japan. On April 9, victory will belong to me, and Japan will have a unified worldweight boxer. "There is no doubt that the winner of this weekend's tournament will have both the world weweight gold belt titles of WBA and IBF.
However, Golovkin, like Murata Yuta, is full of confidence, saying: "I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers from Japan for their hard work and full support for the upcoming reunification struggle." Murata was an outstanding boxer. I am sure boxing fans from this beautiful country and all over the world will see an exciting big fight. I look forward to returning to the stage and bringing the Great War to Japan. ”