WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 34 KO’s) battled to a hard fought points win over WBA ‘regular’ titleholder Danny Jacobs (32-2, 29 KO’s) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Golovkin’s knockout streak ended at 23 straight opponents as he was forced to go 12 rounds for the first time in his career.
Jacobs, a cancer survivor, rose from a fourth-round knockdown and gave the Kazakh superstar all he could handle before Golovkin was awarded a unanimous…