Document: Gennadiy Golovkin, Ryota Murata Agree to Title Unification Bout in December

Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata possess plans in spot for a unification wrestle on Dec. 28, The Athletic’s Mike Coppinger reported on Thursday.

The wrestle will occur in Tokyo, and the time difference will possess the wrestle air within the morning in North The US. 

Golovkin, who has been the IBF and IBO middleweight champion since 2019 when he unseated Segiy Derevyanchenko in a unanimous decision victory, is 41-1-1 and hasn’t been defeated or drawn in opposition to anyone moreover Canelo Alvarez, who knocked out Billy Joe Saunders two weeks ago in a unification wrestle of his luxuriate in. 

As for Murata (16-2), he claimed the WBA championship in January. 

Per Coppinger, both opponents will possess but every other match within the lead up to the fundamental one, and the warmth-up bouts also can presumably be on the identical card. 

The buildup for this wrestle dates support to earlier in Could presumably maybe, when Eddie Hearn, who promoted Golovkin’s most most trendy wrestle, suggested DAZN that a December wrestle in opposition to Murata became the notion. 

The replace to Golovkin’s time desk pushes support any skill trilogy wrestle with Canelo Alvarez. Alvarez, who is reportedly going to wrestle Caleb Plant in a September wrestle to turn out to be undisputed tall middleweight champion, has previously said he wants Golovkin again, however underneath one situation. 

“If the [GGG] wrestle occurs after unifying at 168 pounds, I’m inaugurate to the relaxation, however it completely would be at 168 pounds,” Canelo said, per Coppinger. “If [Golovkin] wants to wrestle with me, he has to attain it at 168. Why wouldn’t he attain it? I went up from 154 to 160 to wrestle with him.”