NEW UPDATE REGARDING THIS FIGHT:"I am glad that the date has finally been set. I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers from Japan for their hard work and full support of the upcoming unification fight, Ryota Murata is an outstanding champion. I believe that boxing fans from this beautiful country and around the world will see an exciting event. I look forward to getting back in the ring and bringing the Big Drama Show to Japan." said Golovkin.
SourceThere's finally a date for the middleweight title unification between Golovkin and Murata.
They'll meet April 9 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. GGG-Murata will take place on Saturday evening in Japan, which means an early Saturday morning DAZN stream in the U.S., perhaps around 7 a.m. ET, sources said.
SourceWe can remember that this fight has been originally scheduled on December 29 last year but due to the omnicron, Japan was forced to close its borders because these new variant are said that it's going to be more infectious and could spread faster than the previous variants.
And finally, a much awaited unification fight of GGG vs Murata is now set and and now they released a date. April 9 is the day!
Yes, it's been a long overdue because of Omicron, but since the date was posted, the next thing now is the bookies to add this fight and let the fans and bettors to pick their choose as early as now, not sure since Spence and Ugas already have available odd and this upcoming fight will be earlier.
Looking to see GGG fighting inside the ring again, let see if he can attract more fans and viewers to call on with another chance
against Alvarez.
Yes mate, we have waited for more than 2 months from its original schedule. Thankfully omnicron wasn't that strong and Japan have been successful to eliminate the danger after they close its borders for 2 months. I'm also waiting for the bookies to update this fight.
There is no doubt that GGG can still attract people and his fans all over the world, it is one of the most waited fight after this.
This is good news for GGG, at last they have released a date for this fight. One month from now so GGG must be intensify his training so he could catch up.
He must have feel the pressure to win now knowing that Canelo is waiting in the wings and a possible huge retirement paycheck is waiting should he demolished Murata next month but knowing how tough this Japanese boxer, this could be a one hell of a fight for the aging GGG.
I have that feeling that there is a new schedule about this fight right after GGG posted on his social media accounts that he is resuming his training at his camp to prepare for this upcoming fight against Murata. I guess I got it right!