After getting a full night's sleep, newly crowned WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata is finally letting the seventh-round technical knockout victory sink in and speaking like a winner."Yesterday I was hoping it wasn't a dream," Murata told a press conference on Monday."Now I'm finally realizing it isn't a dream," said the 31-year-old.On Sunday, Murata, a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, stopped France's Hassan N'Dam after seven rounds at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan to become the first middleweight champion from Japan since Shinji Takehara in 1995, and only the second ever.He is …READ FULL ARTICLE
