Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
By Corey Erdman - There was a distinct similarity between Gennady Golovkin and Lebron James’ performances on Saturday night. After the plucky Toronto Raptors evened the game with James’ Cleveland Cavaliers with eight seconds left in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals, there was an aura...
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is planning to keep Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) very busy in coming months. To avoid the scenario of having Canelo fight a single time in 2018, De La Hoya is planning to stage two events with the Mexican star. He was scheduled to face IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin on May 5th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Gennady Golovkin Video Interview - Gennady Golovkin won his 20th consecutive middleweight title defense with a second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday night. (Photos by Ed Mulholland/HBO). Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) tied Bernard Hopkins' record for middleweight title defenses by sending Martirosyan down at 1:53 of the second round.
Abel Sanchez Video Interview - Gennady Golovkin won his 20th consecutive middleweight title defense with a second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday night. (Photos by Ed Mulholland/HBO).
CARSON, California – Vanes Martirosyan had a sense of humor about being brutally knocked out by Gennady Golovkin late Saturday night. Martirosyan made the extremely costly mistake of trying to slug it out with one of boxing’s most pulverizing punchers. Playing that dangerous game led to Golovkin unloading a crushing combination of power punches that left a decimated Martirosyan on the canvas, unable to continue in just the second round of a scheduled 12-round, 160-pound title fight at StubHub Center.
CARSON, California – Vanes Martirosyan expected Gennady Golovkin to hit him harder Saturday night than any junior middleweight he had faced. Martirosyan admitted after his second-round knockout loss to Golovkin, though, that he still was surprised by Golovkin’s pulverizing power. “It was like being hit by a train,” Martirosyan said. “It wasn’t just one punch. It was all of his punches. It’s the hardest I’ve ever been hit.”
Golovkin, Martirosyan Fight Photos Gallery - Gennady Golovkin won his 20th consecutive middleweight title defense with a second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday night. (Photos by Ed Mulholland/HBO).
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin closed the show landing 11 of 15 power punches on Vanes Martirosya in round two after getting outlanded 6-5 in power shots in round one.
Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) tied Bernard Hopkins' record for middleweight title defenses by sending Martirosyan down at 1:53 of the second round. After being tagged with a strong three-punch combination from Martirosyan (36-4-1) late in the first round, Golovkin responded with a devastating charge in the second. He started the onslaught with a short left and pounced on the damaged Martirosyan, finally dropping him with two powerful lefts.
By Keith Idec - CARSON, California – Vanes Martirosyan at least tried Saturday night, but he lasted just about as long as Gennady Golovkin’s last hopeless opponent at StubHub Center. Golovkin viciously assaulted Martirosyan and knocked him out in the second round of a scheduled 12-round middleweig...