By Allan Fox: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KO’s) doesn’t see himself having an easy fight on Saturday night against his junior middleweight challenger Gabriel Rosado (21-5, 13 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Rosado is moving up in weight from the 154 pound division for this fight and he’s going to try and do what other fighters have failed to do and that’s beat the hard hitting Golovkin.
Golovkin said to RingTV “I think it’s a difficult fight for us.”
Golovkin has been letting his trainer Abel Sanchez do all the talking for him in terms of predictions, as Sanchez doesn’t seen the brawling Rosado lasting longer than the 3rd round on Saturday night. Golovkin has been dominating super middleweights and light heavyweights in sparring for this fight, so it’s going to be tough for a career junior middleweight fighter like Rosado, with his slugging style of fighting, to be able to stand in and trade with the harder hitting Golovkin.
For Rosado to win the fight he’d have to become a lot more elusive and focus on trying not to get hit as much as possible. Can Golovkin be out-boxed? I don’t think so. It would take someone really fast that can escape his pressure for 12 rounds, and even then they’d have to take some really monster head shots to get the victory. But Rosado won’t be doing that. He wants to go right at Golovkin at beat him at his own game.
Rosado hasn’t been impressed with what he’s seen from Golovkin and he thinks he can dominate him. That’s the thing about Golovkin. He doesn’t look like he’s hitting all that hard until he lands a really big shot and his opponents are on the canvas. He’s not a fighter that loads up with every shot he throws. He mixes up the power on his punches extremely well so that when he does land something big, it’s much more devastating.
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