By Dan Ambrose: Junior middleweight contender Gabriel Rosado (21-5, 13 KO’s) sees his fight against WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KO’s) as being a more important fight than if he were fighting WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez despite the fact that Alvarez is the much more popular fighter than Golovkin is. Rosado and Golovkin will be fighting on January 19th at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York.
Rosado told thaboxingvoice.com “I think it’s a bigger deal [facing Golovkin] than fighting Canelo. Canelo really hasn’t done anything…he hasn’t fought a legit 154 pounder.”
Golovkin would probably knock Alvarez out if given the chance. Golovkin hits too hard, and Alvarez is there to be hit. We’ve already seen Alvarez get stunned by the only puncher he’s faced during his career in little 5’5 1/2″ Jose Miguel Cotto in the 1st round in May of 2010.
Alvarez was out on his feet, and had Cotto a little more size and a little more power, he’d have likely knocked him out. Golovkin punches a lot harder than Cotto, and he’s able to land his big shots with every punch. It would be awfully tough for Alvarez to survive 12 rounds against Golovkin.
To be fair, Golovkin really hasn’t done much either in terms of facing big named or dangerous opposition. The best guys that the 30-year-old Golovkin has faced are Grzegorz Proksa and Kassim Ouma. Those aren’t really great fighers. Ouma was a good junior middleweight and a former IBF 154 lb champion at that weight class, but he only held the title for one year before losing it to Roman Karmazin. Ouma gave Golovkin a ton of problems in losing to him by a 10th round TKO last year in June. Golovkin won the fight but he took a ton of punishment and finished the fight with a badly swollen up face.
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