Ten months after his loss to Gennadiy Golovkin, former WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata announces that he has no plans to fight again.
Listen in as Ed Odeven and Jason Halayko chat with the JAPAN Forward editorial team in a discussion on April’s trending sports headlines in Japan that...
The Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher is achieving great results today because, in both his high school and pro careers, the people around him didn’t rush him.
The Kazakh superstar, known to boxing fans worldwide as "GGG," captured his Japanese opponent's WBA belt and moved a step closer to meeting Canelo Alvarez for...
The middleweight rivals have a combined 49 knockout victories out of 57 wins as professional boxers. Golovkin predicted it will be “the kind of fight where...
The rescheduled middleweight title bout, originally scheduled for last December in Saitama, was postponed due to the Omicron outbreak.
The sophomore guard scored a season-high 23 points, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range, against South Dakota on November 27.
The WBA champion returns to the ring for the first time in two years against a successful, battle-tested opponent.
Japan hopes for new boxing medals in Tokyo so the pressure is on, but one 25-year-old boxer took time out of his Olympic dreams to repair...
Four sports ー gymnastics, judo, swimming and wrestling ー have provided the vast majority of the nation’s top-three finishes in Olympic competitions.
Manager Toru Oniki's club has played 12 games this season, winning 10 times and earning two draws.
Satoshi Shimizu’s return to the ring on Thursday, July 16 wasn’t a seminal moment in national history. But it was important for two reasons. ...
