On October 17, 2015, Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), the middleweight WBA (Super) champion, and the middleweight IBF champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
Gennady Golovkin is coming in to the fight on a 33-fight win streak with a 90% KO rate; his last fight was a 6th round TKO victory over Willie Monroe Jr., 5 months and 1 day ago. David Lemieux is on a 9-fight win streak with a 86% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam, 3 months and 27 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Gennady Golovkin at 99-1 winning odds. David Lemieux really doesn't have much to present against Golovkin.
Gennady Golovkin stopped David Lemieux via TKO in the 8th round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the WBA (Super) and IBF middleweight titles. Golovkin improves his record to 34-0 (31 KOs), while Lemieux adds a loss to his record at 34-3.