Boxing: ‘GGG’ Golovkin Wrecks Wade in Two Rounds

WATCH: @GGGBoxing delivers a huge right hand on Wade for the final knockdown of the night. #TweetReplay https://t.co/Q447Wy2JdS

— HBOboxing (@HBOboxing) April 24, 2016 The oddsmakers had made Dominic Wade a longer longshot than Custer at the Little Bighorn, and even then they probably didn’t give Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, the world’s best and scariest middleweight his just due. Had the true gap between champion and challenger been posted, Wade – who, as it was, went off as an almost-unfathomable 70-to-1 no-hoper — would have had about as much chance of winning of plucking down a buck at his neighborhood bodega and winning the Powerball Lottery. Filling in as the replacement for the injured Tureano Johnson, Wade (18-1, 12 KOs) was knocked down three times in the 5 minutes, 37 seconds that probably had him wishing that he hadn’t consented to fill the slot against Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) that most potential “GGG” opponents are avoiding as they might voluntary exposure to the Ebola virus. In scoring his 22nd consecutive win before its scheduled conclusion, Golovkin is drawing comparisons not only to historically great 160-pound fighters – he had said beforehand that, now with 16 successful middleweight defenses, he is shooting at the division-record of 20 held by ageless wonder Bernard Hopkins – but to the kind of big blasters at any weight whose power tends to mesmerize the public and fire fans’ imagination. HBO commentator Max Kellerman said no fighter since the young Mike Tyson had so enraptured the sport through the exercise of pugilistic brutality. But holdouts to the increasing GGG hype – hey, you know who you are – will argue, with some merit, that the Los Angeles-based native of Kazakhstan has yet to meet and defeat an elite fighter of equal or near-equal statue. Someone, in other words, like WBC middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, who appears to be in no great …

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