Posted on 12/19/2020
By: Sean Crose
Some will say he looked like his old self. Some will say he looked like he just stepped out of a pyramid. No matter. After being out of the ring for over a year, Gennadiy Golovkin returned Friday night with a dominant performance over widely unknown mandatory challenger Kamil Szeremeta. Two things about this bout were of particular note. The first was that Szeremeta was as tough as they come. The second was that Golovkin remains almost brutal to watch once he’s breaking an opponent down.
The 21-1 Szeremeta was sent to the mat in the first round and was sent to the canvas a subsequent three more times, the last time with a jab. Szeremeta kept getting up, but his performance simply didn’t improve. The the 41-1-1 Golovkin simply kept beating him up. As Floyd Mayweather famously claims, there’s levels to this game, and Golovkin was levels ahead of Szeremeta, the mandatory challenger for Golovkin’s IBF title. Moving forward, jabbing like a m
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Gennady Golovkin proved to be too much for previously unbeaten challenger Kamil Szeremeta, stopping the polish in the 7th round. This came after the side of Szeremeta asked referee Telis Assimenios to stop the fight at that point, with the 31-year-old already taking more than enough punishment in the scheduled 12-round bout Friday in Hollywood, Florida.
It was an overpowering performance for the 38-year-old boxer, who knocked down Szeremeta four times in the fight. This came in the first, second, fourth and seventh rounds before the Polish boxer’s side decided not to continue, ESPN reported.
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Act One went according to script.
Dual-belted middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin defended his IBF/IBO straps in predictable fashion on Friday night, erasing anonymous contender Kamil Szeremeta in the main event of a DAZN-televised card from behind closed doors at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
The win was the 41st in 43 fights for the 38-year-old Golovkin and his third straight since he lost his previous cache of 160-pound championship jewelry to Canelo Alvarez in their second get-together in 2018.
Golovkin dominated the previously unbeaten Szeremeta for every minute before the decisive sequence, which actually came in the corner when referee Telis Assimenios stopped matters after the seventh round.
Gennady Golovkin pummels Kamil Szeremeta to defend middleweight title
GENNADY GOLOVKIN did exactly what was expected when he hammered his IBF mandatory challenger,
Kamil Szeremeta of Poland, to defeat in seven one-sided rounds inside the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
There were four knockdowns in what was 38-year-old Golovkin’s 21
st successful middleweight overall title defence across various reigns and sanctioning bodies. On paper, it means that the Kazak has now recorded more winning defences than any middleweight champion. But with so many alphabet belts available (including that impossible to follow WBA title in all its diluted guises) and undeserving challengers like Szeremeta around, those screaming that “GGG” is a bona fide record breaker with this latest victory are doing a disservice to the division’s long and illustrious history.
Gennadiy Golovkin overwhelms Kamil Szeremeta to set record for middleweight title defenses
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Message received, Gennadiy Golovkin.
If the 38-year-old wanted to show he remains capable of displaying some of the most masterful performances in boxing, he did that Friday night. Golovkin s technical prowess was on full display in a seventh-round stoppage victory over Kamil Szeremeta in Hollywood, Florida, to defend his IBF middleweight title.
Golovkin set the record for the most title defenses by a middleweight in boxing history (21). But more importantly for his career, he had the type of outing that showed he is worthy of facing some of the sport s top names, including a potential third fight against Canelo Alvarez.