Gennady Golovkin (R) beats up David Lemieux during their middleweight unification title fight. (Photo : Getty Images/Al Bello)
Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) again displayed his heavy-handed boxing skills after battering tough challenger David Lemieux (34-3, 31 KOs) in eight rounds of their scheduled 12-round unification title fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York last Saturday.
The still undefeated GGG knocked out the Canadian brawler with 1 minute and 28 seconds left in round number eight to retain his WBA (Super), IBO, and interim WBC middleweight titles while also taking Lemieux's IBF middleweight belt, as per ESPN.
It was the 21st consecutive knockout win for the 33-year-old Kazakh destroyer and his 31st in 34 matches.
Much of the fans and media expected the fight to be a lot closer than what actually took place, but the Los Angeles resident won every round of the match, even flooring Lemieux in the fifth round with a powerful left hook to the body that took the breath out of his opponent.
In fairness to the 26-year-old Montreal native, he showed up ready to fight and full of courage trying to engage Golovkin, but the God of War is simply too strong and too good for him to inflict any damage.
The Wall Street Journal indicated that GGG is intending to unify all the belts in the middleweight division and that "he wanted to fight the winner of the Nov. 21 bout between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) and Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs)."
"I'm staying at 160 until I have all the belts," he said.
Cotto and Alvarez will be clashing for the Puerto Rican's WBC, Lineal, and The Ring middleweight titles at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas next month. Golovkin versus whoever wins would certainly be one of the best fights in 2016 even as the whole world still awaits for the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao rematch.
