Golovkin vs Simon Results: Golovkin Knocks Out Simon in First Round
by Scott Christ on Dec 9, 2011 5:18 PM EST
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In a nearly silent hotel conference room in front of a handful of spectators today in Düsseldorf, Gennady Golovkin retained his "regular" WBA middleweight title with a first round knockout of American challenger Lajuan Simon.
Golovkin (22-0, 19 KO) was supposed to be chief support for the Wladimir Klitschko vs Jean Marc Mormeck fight tomorrow, but when that fight was scrapped, a few of the undercard fighters were moved to the Ballsaal Interconti-Hotel across town, with Golovkin and Simon leading the four-fight bill.
There wasn't a whole lot in this one, as the 29-year-old Golovkin landed a couple of right hands before putting Simon on the canvas for the ten-count with a left hook. The stoppage came at 2:17 of the opening frame.
Simon falls to 23-4-2 (12 KO). The Philadelphia native had never been stopped before.
Golovkin desires a fight with WBA "super champion" Felix Sturm, but that probably won't happen. His team is also already downplaying a potential fight with WBO titlist Dmitry Pirog, so the end result is this: Everyone at middleweight will keep spinning their wheels, nobody will fight one another because they all say there's no money in it, and thus nobody will attract any irregular attention for their fights, and we'll just keep on going the way it's been going, with Sergio Martinez fighting a couple times per year against guys he likely will defeat without much trouble, and everyone else taking bouts against fringe contenders.
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There's plenty of decent fighters
They’re just not fighting each other. If they were to start, I suspect the top of the division is better than 154.
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Matt said this dude could punch… seems he was right.
by Phill on Dec 9, 2011 7:50 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Basically, HBO would need to say “hey, we need to make a middleweight fight people care about, don’t we?” and then maybe we could see some meaningful competition take place. but as long as they’re going to throw their hands up in the air and wonder aloud why no one is interested in Sergio Martinez fights, this is what happens.
If HBO had their way, he’d be fighting Cotto or Chavez, not Golovkin or Pirog.
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by Scott Christ on Dec 10, 2011 1:53 AM EST up reply actions
Why? They’d finally get ratings for a Martinez fight and it’s not like Chavez losing would hurt his appeal to his fanbase.
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by Scott Christ on Dec 10, 2011 6:41 AM EST up reply actions
I imagine they do think it would hurt Chavez’s appeal or at least the ratings he generates for the network, especially if it’s as lopsided as most predict. Even if that’s not the case, I doubt they’re the least bit interested in trying to force the issue with Chavez since the last time they tried to get a Top Rank fighter to take on Martinez, Arum took his two biggest stars to Showtime instead.
Davis (who yes I know might be a lame duck at this point) pretty much sidesteps the question of this fight at 2:50 here, talking up welterweight opponents instead.
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