Ali Akhmedov gave veteran opponent Gabriel Rosado a boxing lesson on the Canelo Alvarez-Gennadiy Golovkin card Saturday in Las Vegas.
The super middleweight contender from Kazakhstan used a consistent jab and hard, precise combinations to pick Rosado apart from start to finish and win a shutout decision in a 10-round bout.
And Akhmedov (19-1, 14 KOs) received little punishment as he used his legs to get out of Rosado’s reach after dealing damage.
Golovkin’s stablemate never seriously hurt Rosado (26-16-1, 15 KOs) but he did give the 36-year-old Philly fighter a good beating late in the one-sided fight.
All three judges had Akhmedov win 100-90, 10 rounds to nil.
Of course, the plucky Rosado never stopped trying to reverse the momentum with a well-timed power shot. It just never happened, which left him with one of the most conclusive losses of his career.
Akhmedov has now won three fights in a row since Carlos Góngora stopped him in the 12th and final round of a fight he was winning in 2020.
Rosado has lost three straight fights since knocking out prospect Bektemir Melikuziev in the third round in June 2021. He could be facing retirement.
