Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (; born 8 April 1982) is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He is a two time middleweight world champion, having held the IBF and IBO titles since 2019. He previously held the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, and I BO titles between 2014 and 2018. In his amateur career, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 2003 World Championships. He went on to represent Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning a middleweight silver medal.
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Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (; born 8 April 1982) is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He is a two time middleweight world champion, having held the IBF and IBO titles since 2019. He previously held the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, and I BO titles between 2014 and 2018. He was ranked as the world’s best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by The Ring magazine. In his amateur career, he won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 2003 World Championships. He went on to represent Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning a middleweight silver medal. He has never been knocked down or otherwise stopped in a total of 392 fights, 42 as a professional and 350 as an amateur. With a streak of 23 knockouts that spanned from 2008 to 2017, he holds the highest knockout-to-win ratio – 89. 7% – in middleweight championship history, meanwhile ending twelve 6+ winning streaks of his opponents and stopping 4 previously undefeated boxers. Golovkins is known for his exceptionally powerful and precise punching, balance, and methodical movement inside the ring. He won the WBA interim middleweight title in 2010 by defeating Milton Núñez. The WBA elevated him to Regular champion status in the same year. In 2014, he was elevated to the status of WBA champion and successfully defended both his titles against Daniel Geale. In 2018, he lost all his titles, as well as his undefeated record, following a loss to Canelo Álvarez in 2018.
In 2019, he regained his IBO and IBF titles by defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko in 2019. His father is a Russian coal miner father and Russian-Korean mother, who worked as an assistant in a chemical laboratory. His older brothers, two elder named Sergey and Vadim and a twin, Max, had encouraged Golvkin to start boxing when he was eight years old. In 1990, the government had informed Golovkins’ family that Vadin was dead. In 1994, thegovernment told Golvkins’s family that Sergey was dead, and in 1994 the government told his family that Max was also dead. He became a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program in November 2002. In 2003, he graduated from the Karagandy State University with a degree in Athletics and Sports Department, receiving a PE qualification and qualification for a PE teacher qualification. In 2010, he became a member of the Kazakh national boxing team, and began competing internationally, and seven years before he was allowed to compete against seniors. In 2012, he began competing against seniors, and he was accepted to the Kazakh National boxing team. In 2013, he defeated Marco Antonio Rubio to win WBC interim middle Weight title, and defeated David Lemieux to win IBF middleweight titles in 2015. In 2014 he defeated David Leleu to win the IBO title.
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