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Advantage Chocolatito?
- Updated: September 14, 2016
Two of the world’s leading pound-for-pound boxers in Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez were in action at the weekend. Who shone brightest?
Kazakhstan’s world middleweight king Golovkin (31-4-KO19) pounded Kell Brook until his corner threw in the towel in the fifth while Gonzalez became a four-weight world champion by outpointing Carlos Cuadras.
The world-famous Ring magazine classes Nicaragua’s Gonzalez (46-0-KO38) as the premier boxer on the planet and Golovkin is not actually rated his closest pursuer; that honour goes to WBA Super, WBO and IBF light-heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0-1-KO26).
Regardless, many consider ‘GGG’ to be supreme ruler and – on paper at least – he enjoyed a stellar defence of his titles in dispatching a previously-undefeated world champion within five.
To the standards required in these imagined pound-for-pound races, Golovkin’s performance was eclipsed by what Gonzalez achieved. The Kazakh may still have trumped Kovalev’s last defence – a slightly underwhelming points victory over Isaac Chilemba in July.
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