By Ryan Maquiñana - CARSON, Calif. -- Gennady G. Golovkin promised his ever-burgeoning following at the StubHub Center that he would bring them “Mexican Style.” The fiesta was brief, but the fireworks were worth every penny to the 9,323 that attended Saturday night’s festivities.
In what can only be described as a ruthless tour de force, the fighter known as “GGG” played the hammer to Rubio’s nail, thrashing his overmatched opponent with surgical precision and hellbent violence en route to a two-round destruction. The win allowed Golovkin to annex the WBC interim middleweight title and keep his WBA/IBO 160-pound straps in the process.
Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs), from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, entered the ring to a custom “Mexican Style” rap song and the instrumental to the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army,” ingratiating himself with the raucous fan base -- most of whom were Latinos chanting his initials with the same vigor as they would if his last name were Morales, Barrera or Alvarez.
Unfortunately for the veteran Rubio (59-7-1, 51 KOs), from Torreon, Mexico, he was just the latest hardened slab of iron to meet the fiery, piercing lances of this growing legend from Eastern Europe.
