Sources have confirmed that Gennady Golovkin will defend the WBA Middleweight title against Philadelphia’s Gabriel Rosado on January 19th at the Theater at Madison Square Garden as part of an HBO televised Tripleheader.
Golovkin, 24-0 with twenty-one knockouts will be making his second appearance on HBO after his scintillating fifth round destruction of Grzgorz Proksa on September 1st in Verona, NY.
Rosado has a record of 21-5 with thirteen knockouts will be moving up in weight from Jr. Middleweight is riding a seven fight win streak.
Also rumored for the bill will be a Featherweight title bout between Orlando Salido and Mikey Garcia as well as the WBO Super Featherweight championship bout between Roman Martinez and Juan Carlos Burgos