Gennady Golovkin (28-0, 25 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO over Curtis Stevens (25-4, 18 KOs) on Saturday night in the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Golovkin dropped Stevens hard at the end of round two with a huge left hook sending him flat on his back late in the frame.
Golovkin was ahead on all three scorecards, leading 80-71, 79-71, 79-72.
The CompuBox statistics showed just how one-sided the fight was: Golovkin was credited with landing 293 of 794 punches (37 percent), while Stevens landed just 97 of 303 blows (32 percent). Golovkin also landed 49 percent of his power shots.
Golovkin wants to fight the best.
“I am ready to fight anybody, but, specifically, I want to fight Sergio Martinez,” Golovkin said after the fight.
“[Martinez] is not going to come off a 14-month layoff and fight this animal,” Martinez promoter, DiBella told Yahoo’s Kevin Iole.
Martinez is expected to be prepared in the first half of 2014, though there is nothing firm. DiBella said he wouldn’t guarantee that he’d make Golovkin the first opponent upon Martinez’s return.
Who should GGG fight next?
tell ggg to fight somebody in the top 20 in the division first
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