On April 9, 2022, the 36-year-old WBA (Super) middleweight champion, Ryōta Murata (16-2, 13 KOs), and the 40-year-old IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) met in a title-unification fight.
Murata came in to the fight on a 2-fight win streak with a 72% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 2 years, 3 months, and 17 days. Golovkin was on a 3-fight win streak with a 83% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 1 year, 3 months, and 22 days.
Gennady Golovkin stopped Ryōta Murata via TKO in the 9th round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the WBA (Super) and IBF middleweight titles. Golovkin improves his record to 42-1-1 (37 KOs), while Murata adds a loss to his record at 16-3.
On October 20, 2018, the 32-year-old WBA (Regular) middleweight world champion, Ryōta Murata (14-1, 11 KOs), faced a 28-year-old American boxer Rob Brant (23-1, 16 KOs), in a title defense fight.
Murata came in to the fight on a 2-fight win streak with a 73% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 6 months and 5 days. Brant was on a 1-fight win streak with a 66% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 7 months and 2 days.
Rob Brant defeated Ryōta Murata via unanimous decision and wins the WBA (Regular) title — in his first world-title fight. Brant improves his record to 24-1, while Murata adds a loss to his record at 14-2.
On May 20, 2017, 31-year-old Ryōta Murata (12-0, 9 KOs) and 33-year-old Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (35-2, 21 KOs) fought for the vacant WBA (Regular) middleweight title.
Murata came in to the fight on a 12-fight win streak with a 75% KO rate, and was fighting after a gap of 4 months and 20 days. N'Jikam was on a 4-fight win streak with a 56% KO rate, and fighting after a layoff of 5 months and 3 days.
Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam defeated Ryōta Murata via split decision . N'Jikam improves his record to 36-2, while Murata adds a loss to his record at 12-1.