Scorecard: Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez shine in one-sided wins

— -- A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:

Saturday at New York

Gennady Golovkin TKO8 David Lemieux
Unifies middleweight titles
Records: Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs); Lemieux (34-3, 31KOs)

Rafael's remarks: In many ways this fight was the culmination of the passing of the torch in boxing, as Golovkin took center stage in his first pay-per-view headliner barely a month after the retirement of Floyd Mayweather, who had been boxing's top pay-per-view attraction and its pound-for-pound king. Now that mantle may very well have been handed to Golovkin, whom many view as boxing's best fighter and a guy about to establish himself as boxing's next big pay-per-view draw.

GGG looked sensational against Lemieux, the rugged, respected dance partner he needed for such an occasion. Golovkin had wanted to unify world titles for years and Lemieux, 26, of Montreal, who claimed a vacant belt in June, was one of the rare top middleweights interested in fighting him. They came together for the right fight at the right time -- they each made career-high purses ($2 million for Golovkin and $1.5 million for Lemieux, plus percentages of the profits from the HBO PPV) -- and it turned out to be a terrific promotion and an exciting, albeit one-sided fight.

Golovkin, whose all-around talents are something to behold -- is there anything in his arsenal that isn't excellent? -- creamed Lemieux, who had no answer for anything. His vaunted power was never a serious factor because he could not deliver it while Golovkin picked him apart in a massively one-sided beating in front of a wild, sold-out crowd of 20,548 at Madison Square Garden.

With Donald Trump among the many celebrities at ringside, Golovkin scored his 21th knockout in a row and retained his world title for the 15th time, moving past Hall of Famer Carlos Monzon and into second place for most in division history. GGG stands just five defenses away from tying the great Bernard Hopkins' division record of 20 in a row.

Golovkin, 33, who is from Kazakhstan and lives in Los Angeles, fought as close to a perfect fight as possible. He hurt Lemieux in the opening round and never stopped tagging him. In the fifth round, Golovkin knocked Lemieux down with a left hand to the body. The one error Golovkin made in the fight was the uncalled for right hand he hit Lemieux with while he was on one knee from the knockdown. He was warned and clearly it was not an intentional foul, but he has to be careful of that. Lemieux was bleeding from his nose and mouth in the in the middle rounds. In the eighth round, Golovkin was pounding him and referee Steve Willis was looking very close at Lemieux. When Golovkin pinned Lemieux on the ropes and rocked him yet again, Willis jumped in waved off the fight at 1 minute, 32 seconds. After the fight Lemieux and manager Camille Estephan complained about the stoppage but Willis, New York's best referee, stopped the fight at the exact right time. Lemieux had lost every single round on all three scorecards and was being thrashed. Willis had no choice but to stop it.

Golovkin had hammered him, landing 280 of 549 punches (51 percent) to Lemieux's 89 connects on 335 punches (27 percent), according to CompuBox punch statistics.

HBO will replay Golovkin-Lemieux, as well as the co-feature of flyweight champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez's title defense against Brian Viloria, on Saturday night (9:30 ET/PT) along with the network's live coverage of junior welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford's defense against Dierry Jean in Crawford's hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.

Now all eyes will turn to the Nov. 21 HBO PPV fight between champion Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez, boxing's biggest fight. Golovkin will be ringside and the winner will have 15 days to decide if he will face Golovkin in a mandatory fight. It's the bout GGG very badly wants, as do most boxing fans.

Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez TKO9 Brian Viloria
Retains world flyweight title
Records: Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs); Viloria (36-5, 22 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Following Floyd Mayweather's retirement in September, most anointed Nicaragua's Gonzalez, 28, as the new pound-for-pound king. He is a special fighter with a skillful and powerful style reminiscent of his mentor and countryman, the late Hall of Famer Alexis Arguello. In May, Gonzalez, was electrifying in his HBO debut and first wide American television exposure when he destroyed respected former junior flyweight titleholder Edgar Sosa inside two rounds to steal the show in many ways from headliner Gennady Golovkin. It was such a smash hit combination that Gonzalez was again put into Golovkin's co-feature, but this time with the more formidable former two-division titleholder Brian Viloria, who had previously unified two flyweight belts and was a top consensus top three flyweight.

Gonzalez was the favorite for sure, but many expected Viloria, 34, of Hawaii, to be highly competitive. It began that way, too, with Viloria having a good first round and perhaps also winning the second round. But Gonzalez, who retained the world title for the third time, was simply getting into the fight and seeing what Viloria had for him. That turned out to be not very much besides a big heart.

Gonzalez, a three-division titleholder who moved to 14-0 in world title fights, picked up the pace in the third round and knocked Viloria down with a right hand to the chin. He hammered Viloria during the rest of the round with accurate, sharp punches for the rest of the round, bloodied his nose and the rout was on. Viloria landed a few solid blows here and there but Gonzalez laid a beating on Viloria for the rest of the fight, swelling the right side his face badly enough that referee Benjy Esteves had the ringside doctor give it a look after the eighth round. In the ninth round, it was merely target practice for Gonzalez, who was battering Viloria with a two-handed assault until Esteves stepped in and stopped the fight at 2 minutes, 52 seconds as Viloria was being punished along the ropes.

The CompuBox showed just how dominant Gonzalez was as he landed 335 of 805 punches (42 percent) and Viloria connected on 186 of 594 (31 percent). It was nothing short of a brilliant and masterful performance from Gonzalez, who gave his supporters yet another exhibit as to why he is the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound.

Viloria is no youngster and likely will think long and hard about he wants to do with his career. As for Gonzalez, onward to bigger business. His handlers envision his next fight being on the next Golovkin undercard against a quality contender and if all goes well the hope is he will headline his own HBO card against unified flyweight titlist Juan Francisco Estrada in a rematch of Gonzalez's competitive and action-packed decision over Estrada in a junior flyweight title defense in 2012.

Luis "King Kong" Ortiz TKO3 Matias Ariel Vidondo
Wins a vacant interim heavyweight title
Records: Ortiz (23-0, 20 KOs); Vidondo (20-2-1, 18 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: The Miami-based Ortiz is a big man to keep an eye on even if he is already 36. He got a late start because he did not turn pro until he was almost 30 after he defected from Cuba. But he was schooled in the Cuban amateur system and is a big (6-foot-4, 237 pounds), skillful southpaw with crushing power. As expected, Ortiz destroyed Vidondo, 38, of Argentina, whose resume is devoid of anybody notable or close to it. He was fighting in the United States for the first time and could not really properly prepare for the fight because he said he could not get any left-handed sparring partners in Argentina.

Ortiz walked through him with ease, hurting with almost everything. He scored the first knockdown with a right hook in the second round. Vidondo had not recovered from the knockdown when the third round began and Ortiz went right at him and landed a nasty left hand to the face that dropped him face first, causing referee Shada Murdaugh to immediately call off the fight at 17 seconds without bothering to count. There is a good chance Ortiz will return on Dec. 19 to headline on HBO's "Boxing After Dark."

Ortiz won a third-tier title belt sanctioned by an organization that already crowns recognized world champion Wladimir Klitschko and so-called "regular" titleholder Ruslan Chagaev. It is a belt Ortiz won previously but was stripped shortly afterward and the result of the fight -- a first-round knockout of Lateef Kayode in September 2014 -- was changed to no decision because Ortiz tested positive for an anabolic steroid after the bout.

Tureano Johnson W12 Eamonn O'Kane
Middleweight - Title eliminator
Scores: 119-107, 118-109, 117-109
Records: Johnson (19-1, 13 KOs); O'Kane (14-2-1, 5 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: This was a wipeout from the outset, although a highly entertaining one as Johnson, 31, a 2008 Olympian from the Bahamas, ran roughshod over O'Kane, 33, of Ireland, in an eliminator that made him one of main event winner Gennady Golovkin's mandatory challengers.

Johnson, in his first bout since signing with Golden Boy Promotions, dropped O'Kane twice in the first round with right hooks when he turned southpaw. Right hooks hurt O'Kane repeatedly throughout the one-sided fight. O'Kane deserves credit for even making it through the first round, much less being able to go the distance, because Johnson busted up his face and laid a beating on him. According to the CompuBox punch statistics, Johnson landed 405 of 829 punches (49 percent) and O'Kane landed 234 of 893 (26 percent). Of Johnson's connects, 396 were power shots, which set the CompuBox middleweight record. The old record was Bernard Hopkins' 375 landed against William Joppy in a world title bout.

It remains to be seen when Johnson will get the mandated shot against Golovkin, but the fight Johnson really wants is a rematch with Curtis Stevens, who stopped him controversially in the 10th round in April 2014. After the fight, Johnson asked Stevens promoter Kathy Duva for a rematch. That'd be a fun fight for sure, probably very similar to their first one.

Saturday at Carson, Calif.

Donnie Nietes W12 Juan "Pinky" Alejo
Retains a junior flyweight title
Scores: 120-108, 119-109 (twice)
Records: Nietes (37-1-4, 21 KOs); Alejo (21-4, 13 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: From 2007 to 2010, Nietes, 33, of the Philippines, held a strawweight world title before moving up in weight and winning a junior flyweight belt in 2011. He has that belt since and made his eighth defense when he faced Alejo, 30, of Mexico. They were each fighting in the United States for the first time as Nietes promoter ALA Promotions put on its first card at the StubHub Center.

Although Nietes suffered a small cut over his left eye in the sixth round, he dominated against the slower Alejo, who suffered cuts around both eyes, Nietes beat him to the punch all night and rolled to the virtual shutout decision.

Alejo, who lost the first three fights of his career in 2009, had been unbeaten until challenging Nietes. It is not clear what Nietes' next move will be, but he is the consensus No. 1 guy at junior flyweight and there are not really any attractive or particularly lucrative fights for him in the division. His best plan of action -- and he called for it after this fight -- would be a move up to flyweight to challenge champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, which would be a very attractive fight. Since Gonzalez plans to have at least one more fight before a possible rematch with unified flyweight titlist Juan Francisco Estrada, a bout with Nietes in the interim makes all the sense in the world as it is the kind of bout HBO surely would be happy to support.

Saturday at Fairfax, Va.

Lamont Peterson W12 Felix Diaz
Welterweight
Scores: 117-111, 116-112, 114-114
Records: Peterson (34-3-1, 17 KOs); Diaz (17-1, 8 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: This one looked like Peterson, 31, of Washington, D.C., got some home cooking in these terrible scorecards as he got the big benefit of the doubt on his home turf in the entertaining main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC. The former junior welterweight titlist was coming off a controversial majority loss to Danny Garcia in their long-awaited fight in April, and Peterson did not look sharp at all against Diaz, also 31, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist from the Dominican Republic. Diaz was stepping up to fight his most significant pro opponent by far and performed very well in his second fight under the tutelage of trainer Joel Diaz.

It was a very good scrap, surprising because that is not usually the kind of fight Diaz is in. But he and the bigger Peterson swapped a lot of punches during numerous extended exchanges. Peterson was more aggressive than Diaz, a southpaw, who was the better counter puncher and seemingly a harder puncher. But Diaz seemed to get the better of the action more often than not while also outboxing Peterson. Diaz rocked him with two left hands in the seventh round and then made Peterson miss badly. Diaz also had a big 12th round, but it was not enough for the judges. Even if you thought Peterson deserved the nod, there's no way this fight was 117-111 in his favor.

Peterson, with a solid -- albeit debatable -- win, will be in position for yet another major fight, whether he continues to fight at welterweight or returns to junior welterweight. This fight was at 144 pounds. The loss should not hurt Diaz much because he fought very well and was more crowd-pleasing than ever before.

Terrel Williams W-DQ9 Prichard Colon
Welterweight
Records: Williams (15-0, 12 KOs); Colon (16-1, 13 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: A fight filled with fouls and a bizarre ending will go down as a tragedy because Colon, a 23-year-old Puerto Rican prospect, is fighting for his life. He collapsed in his dressing room after the fight and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he is in a coma after having surgery to relieve pressure on his brain.

It was a fast-paced fight as Colon and Williams, 31, of Los Angeles, began to degenerate in the fifth round when referee Joe Cooper deducted two points from Colon for landing a severe low blow with his right hand.

Williams shook of the low blow and went after Colon. In the seventh round, he had Colon in some trouble when he hit him with a clean right hand behind the head and Colon went down. It did not seem intentional but Cooper docked a point from Williams for the foul. Intentional or not, those kinds of punches are very dangerous. Williams landed other rabbit punches but Cooper failed to warn him or take more points. Williams had Colon in terrible trouble late in the eighth round, dropping him twice. The first was from an accumulation of shots, although when he finally went down it seemed to be from a push that Cooper did not call. The second knockdown of the round was on a right hand clearly behind the head, a brutal punch that sent Colon down face first. Cooper did not penalize Williams for the obvious foul. Colon beat the count and the round ended. When he returned to his corner, his team began to cut off his gloves, apparently believing the fight was over even though there was one more round to go. Cooper gave the corner time to tape the gloves up again but when they could not do it in time Colon was disqualified. Minutes later in the dressing room, Colon vomited, collapsed and was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Saturday at Uncasville, Conn.

Demetrius Andrade KO2 Dario Fabian Pucheta
Junior middleweight
Records: Andrade (22-0, 15 KOs); Pucheta (20-3, 11 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Andrade is a much better fighter than businessman. He made his ring return after going idle for 16 months because of terrible business decisions that cost him multiple fights that would have totaled more than seven figures as well as his 154-pound world title. Andrade, 27, a southpaw from Providence, Rhode Island, had not boxed since June 2014, when he made his only defense, a mandatory on HBO against England's Brian Rose, whom he drilled in the seventh round of an impressive display.

But then Andrade, the only 2008 U.S. Olympic to win a professional world title, lost touch with reality about his value, and he and his father/trainer/adviser Paul Andrade, got a little crazy with their expectations. Ultimately, Andrade rejected a career-high payday of $550,000 for a Showtime-televised defense against Jermell Charlo in December in what was to have been the first fight of a multi-fight deal with the network. He was eventually stripped of his title for inactivity. Finally, having ironed things out with co-promoters Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing and Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions (and seeing a potential deal with Roc Nation Sports go nowhere), Andrade returned for this low-level fight against the unknown Pucheta, 28, of Argentina, whom he destroyed. Andrade looked twice the size of Pucheta, who posed zero resistance.

Andrade dropped him three times overall in a brutally one-sided annihilation. He floored Pucheta with a straight left hand to drop him hard into the ropes in the first round. Later in the opening round, he knocked him down again with a clean right uppercut. In the second round, he flattened him with a straight left hand and the fight was waved off with no count 50 seconds into the round. Andrade now needs to stay in reality and there can be big fights in his future, but they are not going to happen overnight.

"Everybody else can get the big fights. Why can't I get the big fights," Andrade said. "(Erislandy) Lara calls out (Canelo Alvarez) and he gets that fight, but I can't get Lara? He can go in and barge in on Canelo's press conference and get that fight. Why can't I get the same thing? No disrespect to any fighter because anyone who gets in that ring, I have high respect for, but it's time for me to showcase what I really have against the guys everyone thinks is No. 1."

Also on the card, Philadelphia's Henry "Hank" Lundy (26-5-1, 13 KOs) returned to the lightweight division after three junior welterweight bouts in a row (going 1-2) and scored a fifth-round knockout of Carlos Winston Velasquez (23-21-1, 13 KOs). Lundy, who hopes for a lightweight world title shot in 2016, dropped him the second and fourth rounds before stopping him 23 seconds into the fifth round.

Saturday at Birmingham, England

Matthew Macklin W10 Jason Welborn
Junior middleweight
Scores: 97-93, 96-94 (twice)
Records: Macklin (34-6, 22 KOs); Welborn (17-6, 4 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: After three unsuccessful shots at middleweight world titles -- a robbery split decision to Felix Sturm in 2011, an 11th-round knockout loss to Sergio Martinez in 2012 and a third-round knockout on a body shot to Gennady Golovkin in 2013 -- Macklin's opportunities in that division all but dried up, especially after being stopped in the 11th round of a title eliminator against Jorge Sebastian Heiland in 2014.

After two middleweight wins in a row, Macklin decided to drop down to junior middleweight, where he had not boxed since 2006, to look for another world title shot. So Macklin, 33, of England, fought in his hometown against another area fighter in 29-year-old Welborn and they put on an excellent action fight. It was hard-fought battle all the way that was highly competitive. There were a number of close rounds but the judges opted for Macklin's accuracy and counter punching over than Welborn's all-out aggression. Macklin did not have the kind of impressive performance he had hoped in a fight that could have gone either way.

In the fifth round, Welborn took some starch out of Macklin with a pair of low blows for which referee Victor Loughlin docked him a point. They battled it out back and forth, especially in the action-packed 10th round when both fighters obviously figured the result was still on the line. The crowd gave them a well-deserved standing ovation when the slugfest was over.

Also on the card, welterweight Sam Eggington (17-2, 9 KOs), 22, fighting in his hometown, survived a second-round knockout to win a unanimous decision -- 117-110, 117-110 and 116-110 -- against Dale Evans (10-3-2, 3 KOs), 23, of Wales, to retain the British and Commonwealth titles.

Saturday at Phoenix

Jessie Magdaleno KO1 Vergel Nebran
Featherweight
Records: Magdaleno (22-0, 16 KOs); Nebran (14-10-1, 9 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Top prospect Magdaleno, 23, of Las Vegas, the younger brother of two-time world title challenger Diego Magdaleno, made quick work of Nebran, 25, of the Philippines, in the main event of Top Rank's "Solo Boxeo Tecate" card on UniMas.

Magdaleno, a southpaw, rocked Nebran with a right hook followed by a left hand to the midsection to drop him along the ropes. Later in the round, Magdaleno landed a picture-perfect left hand to Nebran's gut to drop him again. While Nebran was writhing in pain, referee Wes Melton counted him out at 2 minutes, 22 seconds.

Friday at New York

Seanie Monaghan W10 Donovan George
Light heavyweight
Scores: 100-90 (twice), 99-91
Records: Monaghan (26-0, 16 KOs); George (25-5-2, 22 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Monaghan, 34, of Long Beach, New York, and George, 30, of Chicago, are usually in high-action fights, so that was what was expected when they were matched and that is just what they delivered in Top Rank's truTV main event.

It was typical of their fights in that there no running or holding and not much defense either, as they swung away throughout the fight. Monaghan, the big crowd favorite, however, dominated. He dished out a beating to George, who was hampered by a very obviously injured right hand. George hurt it in the second round and whenever he fired it, he was in pain. But there is no quit in George, who has been in many hellacious battles, and he fought as hard as he could despite the injury. Besides the injury, George may have been a bit rusty. This was his first fight since August 2014, when he won a 12-round decision against Dyah Davis, but it was overturned to a no decision because George failed the post-fight drug test.

Monaghan was steady throughout the fight, banging away at George. The best action came in the first half of the fight but as the fight wore on, George was spent and the pace slowed.

"I have a lot of respect for Donovan George. He took everything and wouldn't quit," Monaghan said. "Now I want to fight for the world title. It doesn't matter which champion or where we have to go."

Friday at Chicago

Andrzej Fonfara W12 Nathan Cleverly
Light heavyweight
Scores: 116-112 (twice), 115-113
Records: Fonfara (28-3, 16 KOs); Cleverly (29-3, 15 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Fonfara, 27, a native of Poland living in Chicago, and Cleverly, 28, a former world titleholder from Wales, put on an incredibly fast-paced fight that will go down as a fight of the year honorable mention.

They fought at a ridiculous pace and crushed multiple CompuBox records with their awesome output, although Fonfara was the rightful winner of the close and competitive fight, notching his third victory in a row since nearly defeating world champion Adonis Stevenson May 2014.

How much action was there in this intense fight? It set four light heavyweight division CompuBox records: most combined punches thrown (2,524), most combined punches landed (936), most individual punches thrown (Fonfara, 1,413) and most individual punches landed (Fonfara, 474). Cleverly landed 462 punches, second-most in all of the fights CompuBox has tracked in the 175-pound division.

Cleverly, who dropped to 3-3 in his past six fights between light heavyweight and cruiserweight, and Fonfara exchanged punches at close quarters throughout the entire fight. Fonfara bloodied Cleverly's nose -- which blew up so badly doctors had to check it after the ninth round -- in the middle of the fight and connected with numerous right hands, as both fighters emptied their tanks in an sensational display in the main event of the Premier Boxing Champions card on Spike TV. With Cleverly's stamina waning, at least a bit, Fonfara closed very strong over the final two rounds to leave no doubt that he deserved the decision.

Although the unrelenting pace was something to behold, there were no knockdowns and it lacked the kind of significant drama usually associated with a fight of the year winner. But this was still a terrific fight.

Kohei Kono W12 Koki Kameda
Retains a junior bantamweight title
Scores: 116-108, 115-109, 113-111
Records: Kono (31-8-1, 13 KOs); Kameda (33-2, 18 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: This was a thrilling action battle as Kono, 34, retained his title for the second time in a fight severely marred by the overzealous officiating of referee Celestino Ruiz, who injected himself nonstop in what was still a terrific fight. It was the first time two Japanese fighters had fought for a world in the United States and they delivered nonstop action. Mandatory challenger Kameda, 28, a huge name in Japanese boxing, was seeking a world title in a fourth weight class, having already won belts at junior flyweight, flyweight and bantamweight, but could not deal with the incredible pressure from Kono.

Ruiz warned Kono for holding after Kameda hurt him with a body shot in the second round. Then came a wild sequence in which Kameda landed a low blow that knocked Kono down but Ruiz called the foul and gave Kono time to recover. As soon as the fight resumed, Kono landed a clean right hand to drop Kameda for only the second time in his career just before the end of the round.

Ruiz interjected himself unnecessarily in the third round when he docked two points from Kameda for ticky-tack calls, first for holding and then for a borderline low blow while also yelling "shut up" at the fighters, which was totally uncalled for.

In the seventh round, Ruiz did something completely bizarre and out of the blue when he sent the fighters to neutral corners (perhaps because of borderline low blows but it didn't look like anything serious at all), kneeled down by the commissioners at ringside for a moment and then told the fighters "next one, fight is over." Kameda came out of the round with a cut over his right eye.

In the ninth round, Ruiz was at it again, docking Kono a point for supposedly pushing Kameda's head down. It looked more like a make-up call than a legitimate ruling. Later in the ninth round, Kameda landed a tremendous left hand that nearly knocked Kono down. They fought hard down the stretch despite Ruiz's constant interference in what was otherwise and excellent fight filled with punching. According to CompuBox, Kono landed 362 of 1,039 punches (45 percent) and Kameda landed 317 of 769 blows (44 percent). The combined 679 punches landed was the second-highest total in CompuBox history in the 115-pound division.

Whether he means it or was is just dealing with the emotion of a tough loss, Kameda said he is retiring.