- Commissioner’s statement on Ventura, Marte
- Ronnie O’Sullivan: Masters champion ‘felt so vulnerable’ in final
- Arron Fletcher Wins 2017 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech Main Event ($140,224)
- Smith challenges Warner to go big in India
- Moncada No. 1 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Braves land 2 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Kingery makes MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- New Zealand wrap up 2-0 after Bangladesh implosion
- Mathews, Pradeep, Gunathilaka to return to Sri Lanka
- Elliott hopes for rain for Poli
Previewing Saturday’s Golovkin, Gonzalez fights
- Updated: April 20, 2016
4:51 PM ET
The top two pound-for-pound fighters in boxing will co-headline the card when Gennady Golovkin and Román “Chocolatito” González defend their respective title belts Saturday at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Golovkin will put his WBA and IBF middleweight belts on the line against mandatory challenger Dominic Wade, and González will try for a fourth successful WBC flyweight title defense when he faces McWilliams Arroyo.
Highest knockout percentage among current world championsWeight classAnthony JoshuaHeavyweight100%Deontay WilderHeavyweight97%Gennady GolovkinMiddleweight91%Naoya InoueJunior Bantamweight89%Eduard TroyanovskyJunior Welterweight88%
Golovkin has an active knockout streak of 21 fights, dating to November 2008. That was four months before Wade’s pro debut. The only two boxers with a higher career knockout percentage than Golovkin are heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
Out of their league
Comparing Roman Gonzalez with the field of CompuBox qualified boxers
GonzalezCompuBoxavg.Thrown/rd9056Landed/rd3517Connect pct.40%31%Source: CompuBox
Why is González the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world? Not only does he throw …
continue reading in source espn.go.com
