Boxing: Golovkin defended his WBA world champion title

Kazakhstan boxer Gennady Glovkin has defended his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight champion title, Vesti.kz reports. 30-y.o. Golovkin fought against 26-y.o. American Gabriel Rosado in his first 2013 bout at Madison Square Garden ring in New York. Kazakhstan boxer won over Rosado by technical knock-out in the seventh round. Golovkin launched a series of powerful blows in the first round, but Rosado managed to resist. The American boxer initiated his first attack by the end of the second round. Rosado was fighting confidently in the third round, but Golovkin managed to land a couple of accurate blows. The Kazakhstan’s fighter stole the initiative in the fourth and fifth rounds and knocked Rosado down in the sixth round. The American’s team decided to finish the bout in the seventh round after their boxer got a technical knockout.