history of his own, as he looks to notch the twentieth successful defense of a middleweight title that he

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first won in 2010. Doing so would equal the number of middleweight title defenses racked up by Bernard

Hopkins, and if the achievement seems somewhat diminished by the fact that that first title fight was an

interim belt against the log-forgotten Milton Nunez and his twentieth will be against a lifetime junior

middleweight, Vanes Martirosyan, who hasn’t fought for two years, then it is worth remembering that Hopkins’

lengthy reign included wins over the likes of Bo James and Morrade Hakkar and a no contest against Robert

Allen. Granted, for the latter few years, Hopkins was the lineal, undisputed champion; but Golovkin would

now boast that honor had he been awarded the decision many feel he merited against Canelo Alvarez last

September, and who can seriously question that he has been the best, most dominant middleweight in the world

for the last several years?

The history, though, will be an afterthought for those gathered at StubHub or watching on HBO. What they

will be looking for is the latest, long-awaited, instalment of Big Drama Show, the loud crack of Kazakh

Thunder that rolled through opponent after overmatched opponent from 20212 through 2016. During that period,

until he battled over twelve rounds last year with both Daniel Jacobs and Canelo Alvarez, the level of

Golovkin’s opposition was almost an afterthought for fans. What mattered was watching Golovkin at his

destructive best, blasting his foes into defeat, then bowing to all corners of the arena and smiling his

cherubic smile. And if a Kazakh and an Armenian seem an unlikely pairing on Cinco de Mayo, we should note

that the card is dubbed “Mexican Style 2”, a nod both to the description Golovkin’s has applied to his

approach to boxing, and to the last time Golovkin fought at StubHub. On that occasion, in October 2014, he

flattened Mexico’s Marco Antonio Rubio inside two rounds, and the cheers of the Mexican fans in attendance –

many of them wearing ‘Mexicans for GGG’ ball caps – rose into the evening sky.

Golovkin will be aiming for something similar on Saturday. It may not be the event, or the fight, that

anyone was expecting or anticip