Golovkin knocked out Proksa
13:15, 2 September 2012
ASTANA. September 2. KAZINFORM Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin won Grzegorz Proksa in the fifth round of World Boxing Association (WBA) Middleweight championship in Verona, New York.
Golovkin battered his Polish opponent in every round, dropping Proksa (28-2) in the first and fourth rounds before the referee halted the bout. Golovkin defended his WBA and IBO middleweight belts with his 11th consecutive stoppage victory.
Golovkin is a Kazakh-born fighter who lives in Germany and trains in California. He had never fought in the U.S. before this bout at a casino in upstate New York, but he is determined to become a stateside star.