Often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin is a Kazakhstani
professional boxer.
He is a two-time middleweight world champion, having held the IBF and IBO titles since 2019.
As of January 2021, Golovkin is ranked in the lists of the world's best active boxers,
pound for pound, by Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, BoxRec, Boxing Writers Association
of America, The Ring and ESPN.
Born in the city of Karaganda in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Kazakhstan)
on April 8, 1982, Gennady Golovkin is now 38 years old.
Golovkin was born to a Russian coal miner father and Russian-Korean mother named Elizaveta,
who worked as an assistant in a chemical laboratory.
He has three brothers, two elder named Sergey and Vadim and a twin, Max.
Sergey and Vadim had encouraged Golovkin to start boxing when Golovkin was eight years
old.
They also joined the Soviet Army and died.
The successful boxer has been married to his wife Alina Golovkina and has got two lovely
children.
His family lives in Santa Monica, California.
Golovkin enjoys playing games with his son and spending time with his family.
Golovkin began boxing competitively in 1993, age 11, winning the local Karaganda Regional
tournament in the cadet division.
He became a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program in November 2002.
At the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 2003, he won a gold medal after beating
Oleg Mashkin in the finals.
He then won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olypics.
Golovkin ended his amateur career with an excellent record of 345-5.
After ending his amateur career in 2005, Golovkin signed with the Universum Box-Promotion (UBP)
and made his professional debut in May 2006.
By the end of 2008, Golovkin's record stood at 14–0 (11 KO) and while he had few wins
over boxers regarded as legitimate contenders, he was regarded as one of the best prospects
in the world.
Golovkin won the WBA interim middleweight title, which elevated him to Regular champion
status in 2010.
He won the IBO title the following year.
In 2014, Golovkin was elevated to the status of WBA Super champion and successfully defended
both his titles against Daniel Geale.
Later that year he defeated Marco Antonio Rubio to win WBC interim middleweight title,
and defeated David Lemieux for the IBF middleweight title in 2015.
After Canelo Álvarez vacated his WBC middleweight title in 2016, Golovkin was elevated to full
champion and held three of the four major world titles in boxing until being stripped
by the IBF in 2018 for not fighting Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
Golovkin lost all his titles, as well as his undefeated record, following a loss to Álvarez
in 2018.
He regained his IBF and IBO titles by defeating Derevyanchenko in 2019.
A calculating pressure fighter, Golovkin is known for his exceptionally powerful and precise
punching, balance, and methodical movement inside the ring.
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.
Golovkin is also said to have one of the most durable chins in boxing history, having never
been knocked down or otherwise stopped in a total of 392 fights, 42 as a professional
and 350 as an amateur.
As of January 2021, Gennady Golovkin’s net worth currently stands at $35 million.
-Golovkin speaks four languages: Kazakh, Russian, German, and English.
-Golovkin's ex-trainer Abel Sanchez praised him for his work ethic and humbleness: "He
has been that way since I first got him eight years ago.
He is humble and shy guy, like you see him now, and it's actually pretty pleasant to
be around somebody like that, who's not just 'foam at the mouth' and trying to say who
he's gonna kill next."
Sanchez also stated that until 2019 Golovkin did not have a strength and conditioning coach
or a nutritionist, for he prefers a traditional cuisine and training regimen, and because
of Sanchez's determination to not have any assistants.
-In an interview with Kazakh media, Golovkin said that he was frequently approached in
the U.S. by ad- and film-making people, who asked him to make guest appearances, co-star
in movies or appear in other media.
Though he described himself as a media-friendly person, he added, "I avoid starring in movies,
appear on magazine covers.
I love boxing, and I don't want to divert from it.
Right now my sports career is more important
for me."