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i think praising brant is perfectly compatible with mentioning muratas weaknesses. brant had great stamina and an excellent gameplan of movement and quick combos. murata was too 1 dimensional, slow, and robotic to handle it

brant boxed well, but murata cant lose like that without his spot in the division falling and rightfully getting some criticism.

Rob Brant is a top10 middleweight. He won't beat GGG, Canelo or Jacobs but everyone else

Brant dominated Murata in a confident fashion. Good movement and workrate. Murata was favoured and considered to be a possible GGG opponent. Now he has blown that opportunity. And probably Brant now has it.

A bravura performance for Rob "Bravo" Brant, who upset Ryota Murata to win the WBA's secondary middleweight title belt by throwing 1,262 punches, the second most ever recorded by CompuBox in a middleweight fight.

Brant fell three short of the 1,265 Brian Vera fired August 11, 2012 against Sergio Mora and two more than Sam Soliman's 1,260 against hall of famer Ronald "Winky" Wright in December 2005.

Another key to Brant's success was his defense, as he limited the normally sharp-shooting Murata to 31% power accuracy. Scoring: 119-109 (2x), 118-110 Brant.

Makes sense now why Arum wanted Murata to fight Quigly instead.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑21 Oct 2018, 01:25

TheLeprechaun wrote: ↑21 Oct 2018, 00:42 Murata was exposed there. He doesn't counter punch so he just holds his hands up. Doesn't move his head either. A fighter that can move and throw combinations seems like his kryptonite. I didn't think Brant had the gas tank or punch resistance to do it.

You said Murata would win?

I did think Murata would win on the basis that Njikam is a better fighter than Brant. I also thought Murata was a harder hitter than he is. The thing I overlooked was that Brant has better movement and moves more than Njikam. He also throws more punches. I knew Murata was a guy with no head movement and no counter punching ability but I thought that Brant was vulnerable because Braehmer hurt him at one point and his stamina didn't look great in the Braehmer fight either. I guess it was a style thing. Braehmer was a counter puncher so Brant had to worry about counters coming back. Murata hasn't thrown a counter punch in his life. He will just wait until you stop punching. Nathan Cleverly style.

ndam moves a ton (his style is movement based and hes been called a 'track boxer' before ) and is a pretty good mover, though chinny.

i think it was just as much brants output that did it, like you say murata wasnt counter punching , so with brant throwing so much and those constant 3 punch combos it really helped shut murata down and make it a hugely lopsided fight offensively. and then the movement just made it more difficult for murata to set to punch, and what he did land brant took well

and of course, that gas tank. brant threw tons yet had much more energy then murata . murata was moving in slow mo by the end while brant was still bouncing around and throwing well

TheLeprechaun wrote: ↑21 Oct 2018, 23:55 He will just wait until you stop punching.

taking turns.

Yuzo wrote: ↑22 Oct 2018, 07:08

TheLeprechaun wrote: ↑21 Oct 2018, 23:55 He will just wait until you stop punching.

taking turns.

He literally waited for Brant to tire out. What did he think it was abloody 20 rounder?

Brant still threw over 100 punches in round 12.

Saturday 20, October 2018
Park Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
promoter Top Rank - Bob Arum, Teiken Promotions - Akihiko Honda, Greg Cohen Promotions - Greg Cohen
matchmaker Brad Goodman

Michael Conlan 8 0 0
vs
Nicola Cipolletta 14 6 2

Conlan won by TKO




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