Gennadiy Golovkin dominated Szeremeta, winning the stop of the seventh round

Gennadiy Golovkin, by promoting everyone, broke a record tonight, with the 21st defense in the middle title, thoroughly dominating Kamil Szeremeta for a stop after seven rounds of one-way action.

Whether or not you want to count the record (there are reasons not to), Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) dominated in this fight, as he has resisted so many in his career. The 38-year-old star from Kazakhstan will receive a lot of “GGG from ancient times!” hype from some corners for this victory, but it was a mismatch on paper (Golovkin was a favorite -2500) and played as one in the ring.

Szeremeta (21-1, 5 KOs) is a former European starter and was the obligatory IBF challenger, but he was never seen as a real threat to GGG and so he played in the ring. Golovkin got rid of Szeremeta in the first, second, fourth and seventh rounds and there was simply nothing in the game but an extremely equal Polish rival.

Golovkin worked his famous jab nicely, went to his body whenever he wanted, mixed his shots upstairs nicely, and when he landed with the bangs, Szeremeta had trouble handling power. With Szeremeta’s limited power, Golovkin feared little in return, and there was nothing Szeremeta could do to deter attacks when Golovkin felt he should let him go.

“I felt very comfortable. I work hard, I had a lot of time, I had a lot of good people with me. I am very proud of my team “, said Golovkin. “I respect the coach and Kamil’s corner, they are very smart, because, you know, he finished. Come on, boys. I felt my beating, my strength, my time. “

Golovkin said he let the fight continue longer than it should, and then did not call up tomorrow’s winner Canelo-Smith, but said he would like to fight the winner.

“I’m open to anyone, the best opponents for me, for business, for DAZN, I’m ready,” Golovkin said. “I hope tomorrow will be a great event and the best man will win. Fans will win that one. “

Hyun Mi Choi UD-10 Calista Silgado

Choi retains the £ 130 WBA title, although Silgado failed to win it because he lost a pound on Thursday. Pretty good fight here, with Choi (18-0-1, 4 KOs) largely outscoring Silgado (19-12-3, 14 KOs), which was a damn game, but not consistently at his level. Choi. Silgado had her moments with a few strong shots and made a few rounds, probably. BLH had 97-93 for Choi, while official judges had 97-93, 98-92 and 99-91.

Choi, 30, who was born in Pyongyang and now lives and fights in Seoul, is in a good place for big fights. Matchroom has Choi under contract, as well as IBF title Maiva Hamadouche and WBC title Terri Harper. There’s also WBO incumbent Mikaela Mayer, who’s in the Top Rank, but she could very well fight one of them and eventually lead to complete unification, which Eddie Hearn said he wants to he sees her.

For her part, Mayer is interested in:

John Ryder UD-10 Mike Guy

A brutal fight to watch, as Guy (12-6-1, 5 KOs) only came to break down and survive, made no real offensive effort, but managed to neutralize Ryder as well (29-5, 16). KO), at least insofar as Ryder also doesn’t look good here.

Honestly, the less said about this, the better. Ryder, 32, continues and should probably forget about this fight. He is still a top 10 super-weight average at the moment. Guy, 39, did what you could have expected. He acted as if he thought he had won, and one judge was 96-94 Ryder, but the other two were more in line with everyone else at 99-91 and 100-90.

Carlos Gongora TKO-12 Ali Akhmedov

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This is a huge upset of betting odds and a period of upset, if not a crazy upset about what they both achieved.

Akhmedov (16-1, 12 KOs) had the biggest hype, a 25-year-old Kazakh who had shown strength and skill, and looked early as if he would be able to bulldoze Gongora, 31. years old (19 -0, 14 KOs), a former two-time Olympian from Ecuador, a country that has never had a world professional boxing champion.

But Gongora was shaken in the second round in particular and started to get a good momentum in the second half, at least on our book. The judges put Akhmedov into the 12th round, but he was knocked down twice and finished a second time:

The gain is absolutely massive for Gongora. It gives the IBO title easy to appreciate, which is what it is, and you could probably argue it in a top 10 at 168 right now, belt or not. It wasn’t really on many radars coming in here while Akhmedov was.

And this was a fantastic, tough and physical fight. Akhmedov was scored and was simply gassed to the end, and Gongora left everything he had to win the ring. With both hats, indeed.

“I was a little tired for the 12th round, but I knew I had to dig deep and I found that I had to get it out of me, trade with it and win the last round,” Gongora told a translator. “I felt his strength. He’s a strong guy. I almost tasted defeat, but I didn’t come here to lose. I dug deep and at the end, he had to go down and I put everything in him to do it. “

Reshat Mati TKO-6 Dennis Okoth

The “Albanian bear” closes the year with another victory, improving to 9-0 (7 KOs) with a final stop of Okoth’s round (4-5-1, 2 KOs), which was now stopped in three consecutive fights. Mati, 22, didn’t look great here, really, but that’s because Okoth managed to break down effectively for a while, which happens, it’s valuable for young fighters to experience this from time to time.

But Mati clearly won the fight as well, and you can also say that he showed a good understanding and patience, did not press too hard, did not become careless. He was cut with a few straight hands Okoth along the way, but remained calm. The highlight was perhaps that Mati hit Shawn Michaels in the sixth round before getting the stop when Okoth appeared to suffer a leg injury: