Secondary middleweight world titlist Ryota Murata and mandatory challenger Rob Brant will fight after all on Oct. 20 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, both sides told ESPN. The fight appeared dead a few days ago with Murata willing to give up the belt after Brant promoter Greg Cohen won a purse bid for $202,114 that Murata’s team declined to participate in because Brant would get 50 percent of the money based on an unusual ruling from the WBA. In the end, however, the Murata camp didn’t want to vacate and the Brant side knew it would make next to nothing fighting for a vacant title, so Arum and Cohen worked it out this week. Murata (14-1, 11 KOs), 32, of Japan, will be making his second title defense when he faces Brant (23-1, 16 KOs), 27, of Saint Paul, Minnesota.