Rosado predicting 9th round TKO of Golovkin

By Boxing News - 01/15/2013 - Comments

k2gggtony011513nyc(Photo credit/K2) By Dan Ambrose: Gabriel Rosado (21-5, 13 KO’s) will be moving up in weight this Saturday night to fight for the WBA middleweight world title against Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KO’s) on HBO at Madison Square Garden in New York. Rosado is the undercard but he’s convinced he’ll stop the Kazakhstan born Golovkin in the 9th round and he doesn’t see it even be close. Rosado has seen a lot of Golovkin and he feels it’s an easy fight for him.

Speaking with Greg Leon at boxingtalk.com, Rosado said “I want to dominate him. I think we can get a stoppage in the later rounds, about the 9th round.”

Perhaps more boxing fans would buy into what Rosado is saying if he’d at least say it was going to be a competitive fight and that he’d maybe grit out a decision or try to wear Golovkin down to stop him late. But Rosado has been talking as if he’s a deluded because he thinks it’s going to be an easy fight, and that just doesn’t seem like it’s going to go down like that given how good Golovkin is looking right now, and how Rosado has struggled in the past when he’s tried to step it up against better fighters.

Rosado has lost five times in his career, and while it’s been three years since he was last beaten, the fact is it’s been that long since Rosado fought anyone really good. Now he’s about to fight someone good again and you’ve got to figure that things will go bad for him like they did when he was stopped by Alfredo Angulo in the 2nd round in 2009.

The 6-foot Rosado will have two inch height advantage over Golovkin, and he thinks the extra size will enable him to have his way with the 5’10” Golovkin. That’s not much of a height advantage for Rosado, and he’s going to have to bring more to the table than just a slight edge in height and reach.



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