On March 30, 2013, Gennady Golovkin (25-0, 22 KOs), the middleweight WBA champion, defends his title against Japanese challenger, Nobuhiro Ishida (24-8-2, 9 KOs).
Gennady Golovkin is coming in to the fight on a 25-fight win streak with a 88% KO rate; his last fight was a 7th round TKO victory over Gabriel Rosado, 2 months and 11 days ago. Nobuhiro Ishida is on a 2-fight losing streak with a 26% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision loss to Dmitry Pirog, 10 months and 29 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Gennady Golovkin at 99-1 winning odds. Nobuhiro Ishida really doesn't have much to present against Golovkin.
Gennady Golovkin made easy work of Nobuhiro Ishida, stopping the challenger via KO in the 3rd. Golovkin improves his record to 26-0 (23 KOs), while Ishida adds a loss to his record at 24-9-2.