Park Theater Showdown: Ryota Murata-Rob Brant Tickets On Sale Today
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 17 Sep 2018
Murata to defend WBA middleweight title against Brant at Park Theater at Park MGM Las Vegas on Saturday, October 20
LAS VEGAS (Sept. 17, 2018) ? Japanese superstar Ryota Murata is taking his talents halfway around the world.
Tickets for Murata?s WBA middleweight world title defense against Rob ?Bravo? Brant on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Park Theater at Park MGM go on sale TODAY at 10 a.m. PST. The event is promoted by Top Rank, in association with Teiken Promotions and Greg Cohen Promotions.
Tickets are priced at $204, $104, $54 and $29, not including taxes and handling fees, and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets or online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets also can be purchased through the MGM Resorts International Call Center at 877-795-2564.
Murata-Brant will stream live in the United States beginning at 7:30 p.m. PST on ESPN+ ? the new multi-sport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service from The Walt Disney Company?s Direct-to-Consumer & International segment in conjunction with ESPN.
This is the second defense of the WBA title for Murata (14-1, 11 KOs), who won the belt with a dominating seventh-round TKO over Hassan N?Dam in October 2017. Five months earlier, N?Dam handed Murata his only professional loss via a highly controversial split decision. Murata left no doubt in the rematch and defended the title in April in Yokohama, Japan, knocking out Emanuele Blandamura in the eighth round.
A 2012 Olympic gold medalist, Murata is a sports icon in Japan, as the Blandamura fight drew a peak rating of 17 million viewers on Japanese TV. Brant (23-1, 16 KOs), from St. Paul, Minn., is undefeated when fighting as a middleweight and is the WBA No. 2-ranked middleweight in the world.
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