Is there such a thing as too much combat sports? Because April 9th would fit the bill given the sheer number of major boxing matches taking place throughout the world, not to mention UFC 273 in Jacksonville.
The biggest matchup of Saturday is a middleweight title unification between WBA champion Ryota Murata (16-2, 13 KOs) and IBF champ Gennadiy Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs), whose 40th birthday is today (Apr. 8). This fight was supposed to happen last year but the COVID restrictions in Japan postponed this anticipated contest.
Golovkin’s career has unfortunately stalled out a bit since his loss to Canelo Alvarez in their 2018 rematch.