Golovkin destroys Lemieux; Gonzalez stops Viloria – live results

By Boxing News - 10/17/2015 - Comments

Boxing: Golovkin vs Lemieux(Credit: Ed Mulholland/K2 Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) gave IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-3, 31 KOs) a methodical beating in stopping him in the 8th round to score his 21st consecutive knockout on HBO pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden in New York.

Golovkin hurt a bloody Lemieux with a flurry of power shots to the head and body in the 8th, causing referee Steve Willis to halt the fight at 1:32 of the round with Lemieux still on his feet.

In the 5th round, Golovkin landed a left to the body that caused Lemieux to take a knee. While he was down, Golovkin tagged him with a right to the head. Luckily for Golovkin, he wasn’t penalized or disqualified for the punch.

Golovkin started busting up Lemieux in the 7th round. He had his nose bleeding badly. The referee had the ringside doctor examine it at one point. The bleeding continued into the 8th round.

“I give all my fans a present,” Golovkin said after the fight. “David, he’s a good fighter, and a very strong guy. My goal is to win all the belts in the middleweight division. Who’s next doesn’t matter to me. I want whoever wins [the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto fight].”

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“There were some rounds that were pretty close,” Lemieux said afterwards while being heavily booed by the Madison Square Garden crowd. “I was just waiting to connect. I’m not too sure about the stoppage. I could have continued. I’ll meet him in the future. I want things to be settled in the near future. There were shots that I took too long to throw. I’ll give him the respect, but hopefully in the near future I’ll get my chance again,” Lemieux said.

Contrary to what Lemieux says about the rounds being close, they really weren’t any close rounds. Lemieux was dominated by Golovkin’s jab in round of the fight.

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Unbeaten WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs) gave former three time world champion Brian Viloria (36-5, 22 KOs) a bad beating before the fight was halted in the 8th round on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Gonzalez unloaded with a flurry of shots in the 9th, causing the referee to step in and halt the fight at 2:53 of the round.

Viloria appeared to hurt Gonzalez with a left to the body in the 9th round. The punch caused Gonzalez to stop throwing punches for a 10 second span. During that time, Viloria continued to nail Gonzalez with body shots that caused him to drop his guard to try and block the shots. However, Gonzalez then came with a vengeance in nailing Viloria with a blizzard of punches that backed him up against the ropes. Viloria tried to throw back for a last stand, but it was of no use. An energized Gonzalez continued to throw nonstop punches until referee Benjy Esteves Jr. stepped in and halted the fight with Viloria still on his feet but looking well beaten.

Gonzalez knocked Viloria down in the 3rd round with a short counter right hand.

Gonzalez landed 335 of 805 punches for a connect percentage of 42.

“All the punches hurt. Thank God I was able to take the punches,” Gonzalez said after the fight.”

When asked if he was in danger of going down in the 9th round from a hard body shot that Viloria landed, Gonzalez said “No, not at all.”

“He’s number one for a reason,” Viloria said about Gonzalez. “Very precise with his punches. He’s got really crisp punches. He keeps his defense very tight.”

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Unbeaten WBA/WBO heavyweight contender Luis Ortiz (23-0, 20 KOs) stopped 38-year-old Matias Ariel Vidondo (20-2-1, 18 KOs) in the 3rd round to win the WBA interim heavyweight title.

Ortiz flattened Vidondo with a left hand to the head in the 3rd that put him down face first on the canvas. Referee Shada Murdaugh then halted the fight without giving a count.

In the 2nd round, the southpaw Ortiz connected with a straight left hand to the head of Vidondo that drove him back against the ropes. Ortiz then landed a big right hand to the head of Vidondo that dropped him.

Ortiz, 36, showed excellent punching power and good skills. But it’s time that he steps it up against better opposition before he ages out. As the new interim WBA heavyweight champion, Ortiz is now in line for a title shot against WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev. That would be a good fight for Ortiz.

Ideally, it would be nice to see Ortiz fight one of the top contenders before he gets a title shot because right now Ortiz is still pretty much an untested fighter. We know he was a good fighter in the amateurs in Cuba, but we don’t know whether he’ll fall apart when he gets hit back by a good heavyweight with punching power and talent. It would be nice to see how Ortiz would do against the likes of Lucas Browne, Eddie Chambers, Bryant Jennings, Shannon Briggs, Erkan Teper, Antonio Tarver, Joseph Parker, Anthony Joshua, Dillian Whyte or Alexander Ustinov. Some of those guys are young fighters with excellent punching power. Ortiz could struggle if he got put in with the likes of Joshua or Whyte.

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#4 IBF middleweight contender Tureano Johnson (19-1, 13 KOs) defeated #3 IBF Eamonn O’Kane (14-2-1, 5 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision in an IBF 160lb title eliminator. The hard hitting Johnson knocked O’Kane down twice with right hands.

O’Kane did a good job of coming back in the last two rounds to control the 11th and 12th. However, O’Kane was too far behind on the scorecards to come back.

O’Kane took a lot of punishment in this fight, and you’ve got to give him a lot of credit.

The final judges’ scores were 118-108, 117-109 and 119-107.

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Unbeaten light welterweight Ruslan Madiyev (6-0, 3 KOs) defeated Sean Gee (2-3) by a 4 round unanimous decision. The final judge’s scores were 40-35, 40-35 and 39-36.

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Lightweight Lamont Roach Jr (9-0, 3 KOs) topped Jose Bustos (7-6-3, 4 KOs) by a six round unanimous decision. The final judges’ scores were 59-55, 59-55 and 59-55.

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Unbeaten light welterweight Maurice Hooker (18-0-2, 14 KOs) beat the hard hitting and blinding fast Ghislain Maduma (17-2, 11 KOs) by a 10 round split decision.

The final judges’ scores were 95-93, 95-94 for Hooker, and 95-93 for Maduma.



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