In a superb night of boxing, Gennady Golovkin claimed his 20th consecutive KO scalp from Willie Monroe Jr whilst Roman Gonzalez blasted his way through Edgar Sosa within two rounds. Although Golovkin and Gonzalez are in differing weight divisions, there were certain traits which were shared; mainly, the power of the punches and the devastating accuracy of those punches.  

Gonzalez fought Sosa as the main undercard fight and we saw a barrage of abuse dished out to Sosa in the shape of Gonzalez's fists. Although it only went the two rounds, it was unrelenting for Sosa who was constantly given no space nor time. By the end of the bout, Gonzalez had a thoroughly impressive punch accuracy, which stood at 55% punches landed. The Nicaraguan was obviously out to impress, and rightly so as he appeared on HBO for the first time. Off the back of this fight alone he will surely get a lot more air time from now on.  

Golovkin entered the ring, to chants of "Triple G! Triple G!", as has become a regular thing for his ring walks from the Kazakh's ever growing fan base across America. The fight, for the majority, panned out as we expected it to in terms of Golovkin's performance; knocking Monroe down twice in the second round, landing 45% of his punches before an almost inevitable KO in the sixth. However, Golovkin seemingly slowed the rounds down, his promoter Tom Loeffler said post fight; "I think Gennady wanted to give the fans a little more value for their money, because the Rubio fight only lasted two rounds."

For large periods in the fourth and fifth Monroe was trying his utmost to give himself a chance in the ring and he did hit Golovkin but the shots he landed had no real effect of him regardless of a lot of them landing flush. It was shortly after these two rounds of bravery and defiance from Monroe that Golovkin put him down again for the final time in the sixth round. After standing up, just narrowly missing being counted out, referee Jack Reiss said that Monroe said "I'm done." 

With that, the fight was over. Golovkin moved on to 33-0, 20 consecutive KO's and, of course, the talk didn't take long to turn to who he wants next. HBO's Max Kellerman talked to Golovkin about Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto, Golovkin said in [his best broken English]; "Right now I'm ready for big fight, I'm ready to...Canelo, to...Miguel."

With Miguel Cotto supposedly having Canelo Alvarez lined up for later this year, although with rumours of a mutual agreement for the winner of that bout to fight Golovkin, where exactly does this leave the Kazakh? Or, more honestly, who will be brave enough to accept to fight Golovkin next?

The world wants Golovkin to get his big name fight as that's the only thing the Kazakh (through no fault of his own) can be critiqued on. Andre Ward? Miguel Cotto? Canelo Alvarez? Carl Froch? All of those would be excellent fights and it is now up to the powers that be to make them happen.