GENNADY GOLOVKIN BOXING FIGHT VIDEO

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Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin is a Kazakh boxer of Russian-Korean descent who competed in the Middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He is the current WBA and IBO Middleweight Boxing Champion. With an 89% knockout percentage rate, Golovkin holds the greatest KO ratio in middleweight championship boxing history and is 1st amongst all active current and former champions, and 3rd in overall championship history. He has never been knocked down or knocked out in over 375 boxing fights, both as a professional and amateur. On August 14, 2010, he won the available WBA Interim Middleweight Title, defeating Milton Nunez by 1st-round KO in Panama City, Panama. He was later then promoted to the status of WBA Regular Champion after the current champion at the time Felix Sturm was promoted to Super Champion by the WBA. In December 2010, he made his first successful WBA title defense by defeating Colombia's Nilson Julio Tapia via KO in the 3rd round. Golovkin put on a striking performance in his American debut on HBO. In October when WBA Super Middleweight Champion Daniel Geale signed to fight Anthony Mundine in a rematch, the WBA stripped Geale of the title and named Golovkin the sole WBA champion at middleweight.Golovkin then followed up his Proksa win with a TKO victory over Gabriel Rosado on the HBO Salido-Garcia card in the co-main event. The boxing fight was halted when Rosado’s corner threw in the towel to save Rosado, who was bleeding badly from his left eye and nose.On 30 March, 2013 Golovkin knocked out Nobuhiro Ishida in the third round with a vicious overhand right.Golovkin won by body shot KO in round three against Matthew Macklin to retain his IBO and WBA Middleweight titles on June 30, 2013. The win was Golovkin's 14th straight stoppage victory.

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