By Allan Fox: Gabriel Rosado (21-6, 13 KO’s) was in line for a title shot at 154, but instead he chose to move up in weight to fight WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (25-0, 22 KO’s) last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Rosado lost the fight to Golovkin by a 7th round stoppage. However, Rosado looked like he wasn’t really trying to win the fight.
Rosado opted to box/run for seven rounds instead of mixing it up with Golokvin, and the end result was Rosado getting slowly beaten down until his corner threw in the towel in the 7th. The question here is did Rosado ruin what little chance that he had by choosing the game plan to run instead of trying to fight? Rosado likely would have lost the fight anyway if he had chosen to fight, but he’s had stood a better chance of winning than by simply running.
Rosado didn’t throw a lot of punches in the fight. He was touching Golovkin every now and the but not nearly enough for him to win any rounds. Rosado tried to fight Golovkin in the 5th and I though Rosado did a pretty good job under the circumstances. Rosado was bleeding from his left eye and nose by that point in the fight, and it likely made it difficult for him to see. But Rosado waited too long to start trying to fight Golovkin because he was too badly cut for him to really make a fight of it when he did attempt to battle him.
Golovkin shut Rosado down completely in the 6th after hitting him with a solid right hand in the opening seconds of the round. The fight for all intents and purposes was over at that point by virtue of Rosado being too bloody and beaten to mount any further attacks on Golovkin.
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