Gennadiy Golovkin-Kamil Szeremeta. Photograph by Melina Pizano/Matchroom
After preventing solely twice previously two years, one in every of boxing’s greatest sights is about to be again within the ring proper earlier than the tip of the yr.
Middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin is scheduled to place his IBF belt on the road towards Japan’s Ryota Murata on Dec. 29 in Saitama, Japan. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger was first to report the creating information.
Murata, an Olympic gold medalist from Tokyo, will host GGG in a significant bout on a Wednesday, a really uncommon transfer elsewhere however quite common in Japan, the place cramming boxing exhibits on the previous couple of days of every yr is already a neighborhood custom.
As per Coppinger’s report, the deal hinges on a brand new settlement between DAZN and GGG, who was signed to a six-fight contract that suffered a number of problems alongside the best way.
Golovkin’s third struggle towards Canelo Alvarez was a part of the preliminary understanding, however with Alvarez now campaigning at tremendous middleweight the eye turned in direction of a “title unification” towards Murata, who holds a model of the WBA title not acknowledged by The Ring.
Golovkin (ranked No. 1 by The Ring at middleweight) fought for the final time in December 2020 when he stopped Kamil Szmereta, whereas Murata (No. 5) has been inactive since December 2019, when he stopped Steven Butler.
