Golovkin defends WBA and WBC titles against Álvarez in rematchTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.43am BST Jaime Munguia has just defended his WBO junior middleweight title with a third-round TKO of Canada’s Brandon Cook. The 21-year-old emerging star from Tijuana dominated from the opening bell, dropping Cook early in the third before referee Tony Weeks waved it off at the 1:03 mark. Munguia improves to 31-0 with 26 knockouts.And so the three televised undercard bouts have ended in a fifth-round TKO, a first-round KO and a third-round TKO. The last one ended at 9:32pm local time, which means we’ve got at least an hour and a half of time to kill before Álvarez and Golovkin make their ringwalks. Should make for an interesting telecast. 2.19am BST Two of the three televised preliminary bouts are in the books. They lasted a combined six rounds. The second was finished at about 8:45pm local time and Álvarez and Golovkin won’t be making their ringwalks any sooner than 11pm. That means broadcasters will have a lot of time to kill between now and the main event.In the opener Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, the former four-division world champion from Nicaragua, stopped Mexico’s Moises Fuentes with a vicious one-punch knockout. Continue reading…
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