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Golovkin vs. Simon: Prediction, Odds, Date, Stats

Gennadiy Golovkin (GGG) defends his WBA (Regular) middleweight title against Lajuan Simon. Let's take a look at the stats, odds of winning, and the prediction for this fight.

vs
29
May 6, 2006
21-0
2
18 (85.7%)
179 cm
178 cm
-1 cm
Orthodox
Jun 17, 2011
5m, 22d
21
Age
Debut
Record
Title Fights
KOs
Height
Reach
Ape Index
Stance
Last Fight
Layoff
Win Streak
32
Sep 7, 2002
23-3-2
0
12 (42.9%)
185 cm
185 cm
0 cm
Orthodox
Dec 3, 2010
1y, 6d
-1
WBA
MD
e1
d2
middleweight
Friday, 9 Dec 2011
Ballsaal Interconti-Hotel, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Gennady Golovkin vs. Lajuan Simon

Date

This fight between Gennady Golovkin and Lajuan Simon took place on at the Ballsaal Interconti-Hotel, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Tale of the Tape

At 185 cm, Lajuan Simon is the taller of the two by 6 cms; Gennady Golovkin is 179 cm. Besides being the taller fighter, with a reach of 185 cm, Simon also has a good reach advantage of 7 cms over Golovkin's 178 cm. On top of that, Simon also has a 1 cm ape index advantage over Golovkin.

Golovkin is coming in to this fight with an undefeated record of 21-0 (18 KOs). His last fight was 5 months and 22 days ago against Kassim Ouma, which he won via 10th round TKO.

Kassim Ouma's boxing career

Simon comes in with a record of 23-3-2 (12 KOs). His last fight was 1 year and 6 days ago against Dionisio Miranda, which he lost via 12 round split decision.

Both the fighters fight out of the orthodox stance.

On the day of the fight, Golovkin will be 29 years and 8 months old. Simon will be 32 years and 9 months old.

Prediction and Odds

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After considering the both the fighters' stats and their performance patterns, the winning odds is calculated to be at 77-23 in favor of Gennady Golovkin. Here is the prediction for Golovkin vs Simon.

Gennady Golovkin should win this fight. It is going to be very hard for Lajuan Simon to win this one.

Result

Gennady Golovkin defeated Lajuan Simon via 1st round KO to retain the WBA (Regular) middleweight title. Simon's losing streak continues, and Golovkin advances his win streak to 22. Golovkin is now 22-0, and Simon 23-4-2.

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