By Matt Lieberman: DAZN has introduced the 160-lb unification combat between IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin and WBA ‘Tremendous World’ champion Ryota Murata for December twenty ninth on the Saitama Tremendous Enviornment in Saitama, Japan.
For Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs), a powerful stoppage win over the 2012 Olympic gold medalist Murata (16-2, 13 KOs) might put himself within the driver’s seat to face Canelo Alvarez in early subsequent 12 months in a trilogy match on DAZN.
Golovkin most likely wants a knockout of Murata to punch his ticket for a 3rd combat with Canelo subsequent 12 months. In different phrases, it received’t be sufficient for GGG to win an in depth 12 spherical determination.
What can be toxic for Golovkin is beat Murata by a controversial determination, as we noticed in GGG’s victory over Sergiy ‘The Technician’ Derevyanchenko in 2019.
That was the final time Golovkin, 39, fought an excellent opponent, and he regarded worse than horrible in that combat. In Golovkin’s earlier combat, he regarded higher in stopping his IBF obligatory Kamil Szerremeta within the seventh spherical in December of final 12 months. Nonetheless, the Polish fighter regarded like a second-tier fighter and never a real upper-level contender.
Huge Drama in Japan 🍿⁰⁰GGG & Murata put their middleweight world titles on the road, Wednesday, December 29 on DAZN 👑⁰⁰#GGGMurata pic.twitter.com/UNr0QsCLrI
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) November 12, 2021
Golovkin is coming off a protracted 12-month layoff, and there’s no telling what sort of efficiency we’ll see from him.
You may’t take a look at his combat in opposition to the overmatched Szeremeta as an indicator of how he’ll do in opposition to the heavy-handed and extremely proficient Murata as a result of that fighter didn’t belong competing for a world title.
We noticed simply how restricted Szeremeta was as a fighter in watching him get taken aside by Jaime Munguia in six rounds final June. Murata is world’s higher than Szeremeta and probably superior to Derevyanchenko within the energy division.
You may assume that Murata and his coaching staff may have studied Golovkin’s fights in opposition to Derevyanchenko and Canelo, noting that he has issues when being hit to the physique.
Furthermore, Golovkin couldn’t combat backing up in his contests with Canelo and Derevyanchenko, and that’s an space Murata can be trying to exploit.
If Golovkin loses to Murata, that will successfully end his goals of getting a 3rd combat with Canelo. There can be no manner the Mexican begin would entertain the thought of acing him once more.
It could be in the perfect curiosity of DAZN that Golovkin end out his contract with them by preventing the perfect opposition he can as a result of he’s been aiming low since signing a profitable contract with the streaming big in 2019.
In Golvokin’s three fights with DAZN, he’s fought these guys:
- Steve Rolls
- Sergiy Derevyanchenko
- Kamil Szeremeta
Golovkin would have made DAZN comfortable if he’d fought this assassin’s row as an alternative:
- David Benavidez
- Demetrius Andrade
- Jermall Charlo
- Canelo Alvarez
The combat that Golovkin ought to have taken at 160 to win one other world title would have been in opposition to WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade.
For the U.S boxing followers, they might have appreciated Golovkin displaying braveness by going through the unbeaten Andrade reasonably than Murata, who has already been crushed by Hassim N’Dam and Rob Brant.
Nonetheless, the cash that Golovkin goes to be getting by preventing Murata in Japan was an excessive amount of for him to withstand, notably with him getting older and struggling for wins.
Many boxing followers now have a notion of Golovkin that he’s simply in search of cash fights and never involved with taking dangers by preventing proficient opposition.
You may argue it was a foul mistake on Golovkin’s half to waste his first three fights on his DAZN contract by going through Rolls, Derevyanchenko and Szeremeta. If Golovkin wished to make DAZN comfortable for giving him an enormous contract, he ought to have aimed larger by taking up Charlo, Andrade, or Benavidez.
