BoxRec

Friday 12, July 2019
EDION Arena Osaka, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
promoter Teiken Promotions - Akihiko Honda, Top Rank - Bob Arum

Rob Brant 25 1 0
vs
Ryota Murata 14 2 0
World Boxing Association World Middleweight Title

Murata won by 2nd round TKO

Brant looked like a shell. It could have been stopped earlier. Brant failed to throw back, failed to tie up, failed to move.

Final punch stats
Of Murata's 98 connects, an astonishing 95 were power shots (meaning anything other than a jab). He landed 64 of them in a near-historic second round. That is the most power punches landed in a single middleweight round in CompuBox's 34 years or tracking fights.

Anybody knows what PED testing they were doing for this fight and if it was different from the first fight?

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 11:05 Anybody knows what PED testing they were doing for this fight and if it was different from the first fight?

You reckon Murata took something?

ironbeard wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 10:07 Brant looked like a shell. It could have been stopped earlier. Brant failed to throw back, failed to tie up, failed to move.

Agree, he looked spent in the end of the 1st round. Looked pretty drained.

Wonder how Brant could've performed SO badly after damn near shutting out Murata the 1st time. Maybe he overtrained? Tough loss for him. Good for Murata though. I'm sure the Japanese fans are over the moon about it.

Wow! I'm surprised at the result. What a turnaround.

Brant looked poor vs Breahmer so maybe the trip took something from him. He's been in Japan for a long time though, like 2 weeks

Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 12:43 Brant looked poor vs Breahmer so maybe the trip took something from him. He's been in Japan for a long time though, like 2 weeks

Well, he's undefeated in the USA!!

gilgamesh wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 12:26 Wonder how Brant could've performed SO badly after damn near shutting out Murata the 1st time. Maybe he overtrained? Tough loss for him. Good for Murata though. I'm sure the Japanese fans are over the moon about it.

Yeah, quite surprising. The stoppage seemed a bit early though.

DrDuke wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 13:17

gilgamesh wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 12:26 Wonder how Brant could've performed SO badly after damn near shutting out Murata the 1st time. Maybe he overtrained? Tough loss for him. Good for Murata though. I'm sure the Japanese fans are over the moon about it.

Yeah, quite surprising. The stoppage seemed a bit early though.

Brant was just taking incoming. He went a score of seconds between thrown punches.

He looked drained. Maybe he just got caught and could not satisfactorily recover. Maybe he ate some bad sushi.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 11:06

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 11:05 Anybody knows what PED testing they were doing for this fight and if it was different from the first fight?

You reckon Murata took something?

Such a drastic change in a short period could involve Murata taking something or Brant not taking something he took before.

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 18:11

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 11:06

You reckon Murata took something?

Such a drastic change in a short period could involve Murata taking something or Brant not taking something he took before.

Could also be home comfort, fighting based on being the ubders-dog/with pressure, and about a dozen other things...and that's ignoring the fact Murata didn't win the opening round here, and it could just simply be a case of catching a guy and not letting him recover

Boxing Prospect wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 21:50

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 18:11
Such a drastic change in a short period could involve Murata taking something or Brant not taking something he took before.

Could also be home comfort, fighting based on being the ubders-dog/with pressure, and about a dozen other things...and that's ignoring the fact Murata didn't win the opening round here, and it could just simply be a case of catching a guy and not letting him recover

Or it could be that Brant isn't as good as he looked the first time. And Murata is nowhere near as bad as he looked back then.

Let's not forget that Murata was a heavy favorite in Las Vegas. Brant was not that highly regarded and he returned to his real level today.

Just watched the fight. Shocking result. Maybe Murata just had a bad night the first time around?

This result just washed away Brant's great performance that night. It was an Ippesque match

It seemed like Brant just got completely overwhelmed early. Murata did not allow Brant to set the pace.

jujigatame wrote: ↑12 Jul 2019, 22:20 Just watched the fight. Shocking result. Maybe Murata just had a bad night the first time around?

He did pretty much admit to not wanting to fight Brant and wanted a bigger name opponent, so could well be a case of over looking him