The Boxing Truth®

A story that has continued to garner significant interest in the sport of Boxing in recent years has been the emergence of undefeated unified WBA/IBO Middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin. A fighter who has simply carved out a path of destruction in the Middleweight division since becoming world champion in 2010. Golovkin, a native of Kazakhstan has scored seventeen consecutive knockouts and successfully defended his world title eleven times. What has made Gennady Golovkin such a devastating force has been his seek and destroy pressure style that few opponents have been able to withstand. In thirty professional fights Golovkin has scored twenty-seven knockouts registering a career knockout percentage of 90%. Most recently, a title defense this past July, Golovkin scored a third round knockout of former two-time Middleweight world champion Daniel Geale at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In that fight not only was Golovkin’s power on full display, but he also s...

On September 29th of 2007 undefeated world champion Jermain Taylor entered the ring at the historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey to defend his unified Middleweight world championship against hard-hitting undefeated contender Kelly Pavlik in a fight that many considered the fight of the year. A brutal back and forth war of wills that saw both men suffer knockdowns where Pavlik ultimately emerged victorious stopping Taylor in the seventh round. Some might say that it was this loss, the first of Taylor’s career that began a gradual decline in a fighter once considered one of the best pound for pound in the world. Taylor would go on to lose a twelve round unanimous decision to Pavlik in their rematch in February 2008 in a bout that was fought above the 160lb. Middleweight limit. Taylor, who would leave the Middleweight division after his first fight with Pavlik would suffer further setbacks. Many remember his exciting battle against then WBC Super-Middleweig...

On January 3rd undefeated top Jr. Lightweight contender Rances Barthelemy challenging IBF world Jr. Lightweight champion Argenis Mendez for the championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally Barthelemy was declared the winner via second round knockout over Mendez. This result however, would be changed to a no decision as it was ruled that the combination landed by Barthelemy that resulted in the end of the fight landed after the bell rung to end the second round. With the results of that fight changed and with the IBF title returned to Mendez per the bout being ruled a no decision, a rematch between the two would take place. In the rematch, which took place on July 10th in Miami, Florida, Barthelemy would score a convincing twelve round unanimous decision over Mendez to win the title. Nearly three months to the day of his winning a world title, Barthelemy would make the first defense of his IBF crown against the International Boxing Federation’s (IBF) number three...

An interesting card featuring three former world champions took place at the OKC Downtown Airpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Saturday night. Ricardo Mayorga, Sam Peter, and Luis “Yory Boy” Campas entered the ring looking to take a step toward potential contention for a world title down the line. In the main event, a scheduled six round bout, former two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga now fighting in the Middleweight division, in his first fight in Boxing in over three years after spending some time competing in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) took only sixty-three seconds to stop an overmatched Allen Medina. Mayorga stunned Medina with a right hand that was followed by a barrage of unanswered punches, which forced Referee Gerald Ritter to stop the fight. Official time of the stoppage was 1:03 of round one. Ricardo Mayorga advances to 30-8-1, with 24 Knockouts. Allen Medina falls to 9-24-1, with 1 Knockout. There simply is not much to say about this fight. Ma...