ESPN+: Ryōta Murata vs. Robert Brant & Maxim Dadashev vs. Antonio DeMarco RBR.

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9

Close round, Murata pumped out a consistent thudding jab, invested to the body, and landed some chopping rights, Brant landed flurries, some blocked and parried, but a lot got through.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9

Solid Murata round, he had Brant hurt and along the ropes, ripped his body, cracked him with the jab non stop, a few uppercuts, Brant recovered, and landed seveal shots late, but it wasn't enough to edge it back in his direction.

 

Yeah, that's pretty much Murata's stratefgy, he was baking on Brant gassing. As far as Rob goes... Brant's a very solid fighter, I was actually thinking about picking him for this match, since Murata has a tendency to square up and not let his hands go enough, and fights basically nothing like Braehmer, who'd give Murata a shitton of issues as well. Brant's a heavy handed guy with real KO power and fast hands, enough to do some damage if you stand in front of him like a goober, and that's what Murata has done far too much of.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9
Round 8 Brant 10-9

Close round, Murata edged the first two minutes, parried an blocked a lot of Brant's shots, but Brant ounced back, started hook around his guard, landing one twos, Murata got sloppy and Brant capitalized.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9
Round 8 Brant 10-9
Round 9 Murata 10-9

Back and forth round, Brant edged the first two by a hair, landing one eye catching shot that snapped Murata's head back, but Murata finished really strong rocking Brant's head back several times in the last minute.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9
Round 8 Brant 10-9
Round 9 Murata 10-9
Round 10 Brant 10-9

Back and forth round with Brant's activity edges it towards him, 55-45ish. Both landed flush bombs.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9
Round 8 Brant 10-9
Round 9 Murata 10-9
Round 10 Brant 10-9
Round 11 Brant 10-9

Murata kept it close for the first two minutes, he landed several hard jabs and chopping rights, Brant landing fast one twos, but he took over in the last minute, after tagging Ryota with a combo that seemed to deflate him.

 

Round 1 Brant 10-9
Round 2 Brant 10-9
Round 3 Brant 10-9
Round 4 Brant 10-9
Round 5 Murata 10-9
Round 6 Murata 10-9
Round 7 Murata 10-9
Round 8 Brant 10-9
Round 9 Murata 10-9
Round 10 Brant 10-9
Round 11 Brant 10-9
Round 12 Murata 10-9

This round was a close to even as they get, Murata had his head flown several times by Brant after being strafes by straight rights, but Ryota still managed to edge it with the more consistent work, that wasn't quite as eye catching.

115-113 Brant

116-112 is fine as well.

Well deserved win by Brant, he showed up with a hell of a game plan and Murata had a monumentally dumb one of letting Brant punch himself out, well... he didn't. That being said the official judges are ****ing ghouls and they can all suck a goat's anus, those scorecards were a ****ing abomination.

 

Murata has always been a tad bit limited, but Brant, while I like him, has never shown this many wrinkles in his game. That being said, I was expecting someone to expose Murata eventually, but I figured he'd be good enough to squeak past Brant. But... I guess not.

The fact is, Canelo, Saunders, Golovkin all three wreck both Brant and Murata, they both showed they had damn good chins, but close to no defense, the only difference was output. Murata's usual low output economical style really backfired on him tonight against Brant. Quite frankly I'm not sure either of them get past Lemieux.