Gennady Golovkin

Gennady Golovkin
Golovkin at a press conference (2017)
Data
Birth Name	Gennady Gennadevich Golovkin
Fight name	GGG
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Kazakhstan
birthday	April 8, 1982
place of birth	Karagandy
style	Left delivery
size	1.78 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	42
Victories	40
Knockout victories	35
Defeats	1
draw	1

Gennady Golovkin medal table
Boxing
Kazakhstan
Olympic games
silver	2004	medium weight
World championships
gold	2003	medium weight

Gennadi Gennadjewitsch Golowkin ( Russian Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин ; born April 8, 1982 in Karagandy ), also known as Triple G , is a Kazakh professional boxer. He is the current middleweight world champion of the IBF and the IBO , as well as a former world champion of the WBA and the WBC .

Among the amateurs he was world champion middleweight in 2003 and silver medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games.

family

Golowkin lived with his family in Stuttgart, where he could only spend half of his time due to work. In late 2014, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife and son. He is trained by Abel Sanchez in Big Bear Lake , California , near Los Angeles . On November 8, 2017, he became the father of a daughter.

Amateur career (2000-2005)

Golowkin's first international success was winning the Junior World Championship in Budapest in 2000 . He defeated Hao Yen Kuo from Taiwan (demolition), Alexander Renz from Germany (26: 7), Benjamin Kalinovic from Sweden (21:10), Jewgeni Putilow from Russia (24:10) and Maikel Pérez from Cuba (30: 17). Six months later he won the East Asian Games in Japan with victories against the South Korean Soo-Young Kim (demolition), the Chinese Chi-Wan Song (demolition) and the Australian Daniel Geale (15: 3).

He then took part in the Asian Games in South Korea in 2002, where he defeated Abdullah Shekib from Afghanistan (demolition), Nagimeldin Adam from Qatar (demolition), Song In Joon from South Korea (18:12) and Suriya Prasathinphimai from Thailand (demolition) and thus Gold won. At the World Championships in Thailand in 2003 he was finally able to establish himself at the top of the world; He defeated two-time world champion Matwei Korobow (19:10) in the preliminary round, vice-junior world champion Andy Lee (29: 9) in the round of 16 , in the quarter-finals the winner of the Francophone games Lucian Bute (knockout), in the semi-finals the two-time bronze medalist at world championships Yordanis Despaigne (29:26) and in the final the European champion Oleg Maschkin (demolition).

In January 2004 he won the Asian Championship in the Philippines and started in August of the same year at the Olympic Games in Athens . There he was able to fight his way to the final against Ahmad Ali Khan (31:10), Ramadan Yasser (31:20) and Andre Dirrell (23:18), where he was finally defeated by Gaidarbek Gaidarbekow (18:28).

He is also the winner of the international tournaments Brandenburg Cup 2000 in Germany, Grand Prix Ústí 2001 in the Czech Republic, Ahmet Cömert 2003 in Turkey, Golden Belt 2004 in Romania and Amber Gloves 2005 in Russia.

He fought around 350 fights during his amateur career.

Professional career (since 2006)

Gennadi Golowkin began his professional career in 2006 at Spotlight Boxing , a sister company of Universum Box-Promotion . He was initially trained by Magomed Schaburow . He completed his first professional fight on May 6, 2006 against Gabor Balogh and won by knockout in the first round. In his third fight he beat the later IBF junior world champion in the light middleweight division, Daniel Urbanski (5-1), with a technical knockout in the fourth round. This was followed by thirteen more wins, ten of them by knockout, against well-known regional opponents such as Javier Mamaní (35-7) or Malik Dziarra (29-3).

On July 11, 2009 Golowkin won the WBO Intercontinental Championship by knockout in the second round against John Carvalho (19-3). On November 21, Gennady Golovkin completed his last fight for Spotlight Boxing, canceled his contract in January 2010 and went into business for himself. With his new GGG management, Golowkin got the status of mandatory challenger at the WBA and was allowed to box for the transitional world championship of the WBA for the first time in his professional career. He won this on August 14, 2010 by knockout in round 1 against Milton Núñez (21-1). Former WBA world champion Felix Sturm was named "Superchampion" by the WBA for his successes, and Gennadi Golowkin got the opportunity to box for the regular WBA title. He won this in December 2010 in Astana, Kazakhstan by knockout in the third round against Nilson Tapia (14-2). It was the first fight in his professional career that he fought in his home country.

In the summer of 2011, Golowkin finally separated from his former promoter Universum Box-Promotion , who had tried to bring him to court to continue boxing for this promotion. An agreement was reached before the Hamburg Higher Regional Court and thus Golowkin was a free boxer and was able to plan and shape his career himself. At the end of 2011, Golowkin signed a promotional contract with Tom Loeffler from the USA, who works for K2 Promotions , which was founded by the Klitschko brothers in the USA.

After defending his title early against Kassim Ouma (27-7), Golowkin fought for the vacant IBO title on December 9, 2011 with a superior first-round knockout against Lajuan Simon (23-3) from the USA. He defended both world championship titles with an early victory on May 12, 2012 against the Japanese Makoto Fuchigami (19-6) in Kiev (Ukraine).

On September 1, 2012, Gennadi Golowkin celebrated his US debut in Verona, NY, USA with an early win against Poland's Grzegorz Proksa (28-1). That was Golovkin's first fight, broadcast on HBO . After the reigning super world champion Daniel Geale was stripped of the title, Golowkin was the sole world champion of the WBA since November 1, 2012.

On January 19, 2013, the second fight on HBO followed in the famous Madison Square Garden of New York City . In this fight Golowkin won against Gabriel Rosado (21-5) from Philadelphia in the seventh round by tKo after Rosado's corner had thrown in the towel. After a knockout win against Nobuhiro Ishida (24-8), he defended both championship belts with a knockout in the third round against Matthew Macklin (29-4).

On November 2, 2013 Golowkin defeated Curtis Stevens (25-3) by tKo in the eighth round and on February 1, 2014 also Osumanu Adama (22-3) prematurely in round 7. On July 26, 2014, he defeated Daniel Geale (30 -2) early in the third round. In October 2014 he defeated the Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6) by knockout in the second round.

Just a few days after this victory it was announced that Martin Murray (29-1) would be the next opponent on February 21, 2015. Golowkin, who was trained by Abel Sanchez , defeated Murray by knockout in the eleventh round. With the 19th knockout in a row and the associated 13th defense of his title, Gennadi climbed to third place among the most successful boxers of all time in the middleweight division.

On May 16, 2015, he defeated Willie Monroe junior (19-1) in California early in the sixth round. With the 20th knockout in a row, Gennadi's knockout quota rose to 90.9% (33 fights / victories - 30 by knockout).

Shortly after the announcement of Golowkin's next fight against Canadian David Lemieux (34-2), which took place on October 17th in Madison Square Garden and won the Golowkin by TKo in the eighth round, another record was broken. In advance ticket sales, over 6000 tickets were sold within the first two days, something that no boxing event in the MSG has achieved to date. In addition, this title unification fight (Lemieux held the IBF middleweight title ) was Gennadi's first pay-per-view event ( HBO PPV ).

A Golovkin stamp issued in 2016 in Kazakhstan

The following fight of Golovkin was for 23 April 2016 Forum, Los Angeles, CA against the No. 2 mandatory challenger of IBF , Dominic Wade announced (18-0). Both Saúl Álvarez (reigning WBC middleweight champion) and Billy Joe Saunders (reigning WBO world middleweight champion) had not agreed to a title unification fight, No. 1 public defender Tureano Johnson is injured. After a total of 3 knockdowns, the fight was over in the 2nd round. Gennadi remained undefeated by the 22nd knockout win in a row.

On May 18, 2016, Canelo announced that it would be resigning from the WBC middleweight title . Thus Gennadi automatically became a full champion of the WBC (to date, interim champion of the WBC in the middleweight division).

On September 10, 2016, he defeated in The O ₂ , London, Greenwich also unbeaten Kell Brook (36-0) by TKo in the fifth round (who had risen from the two weight classes lower welterweight for this fight ). With his 23rd knockout victory, his knockout rate rose to 92%.

In 2015 and 2016, Gennadi sold out three different arenas on two continents (North America, Europe) in three consecutive fights. In Los Angeles it was "The Forum" with 16,353 viewers. In New York in the "Madison Square Garden" against David Lemieux there were over 20,000 visitors and in London (in the "O2 Arena") against Kell Brook there were about 20,000 tickets.

On March 18, 2017, Golowkin played an unification match with WBA title holder Daniel Jacobs (32-1) in Madison Square Garden . Golowkin won the fight on points with 114: 113, 115: 112 and 115: 112, but Jacobs was able to make the fight evenly balanced and interrupted Golowkin's knockout winning streak of 23 early victories in a row. In the end, however, outweighed the numbers of the stroke statistics (231 hits out of 615 hits, 37.6%) from Golowkin and the precipitation in the 4th round, so that Golowkin successfully defended his title for the 18th time.

On May 6, 2017, Golowkin stepped into the ring immediately after Canelo (49-1-1) beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and congratulated the winner. A fight between Canelo and Golowkin was announced, and in the following press conference September 16, 2017 was named as the planned date. After twelve rounds a draw was announced after a point judgment, both boxers stated that they would like a rematch.

By knocking out Vanes Martirosyan (36-3-1) in the 2nd round on May 5, 2018 , Gennadi set the all-time record for defending Bernard Hopkins' middleweight title .

After lengthy negotiations, the IBF announced on June 6, 2018 that the IBF middleweight world champion belt is vacant with immediate effect, as the fight between Gennady and the mandatory challenger Serhiy Derevianchenko (12-0) did not take place.

On September 15, 2018, Golowkin lost the rematch against Saúl Álvarez (49-1-2) on points and suffered his first defeat as a professional.

After HBO announced in September 2018 that it would be leaving boxing after 45 years at the end of 2018, there was long speculation about where its fights might be seen in the future. After several conversations with Eddie Hearn ( Matchroom Boxing , DAZN ) and Bob Arum ( Top Rank , ESPN ), Golowkin finally signed a contract with the online streaming service DAZN for six fights in March 2019.

On April 24, 2019, Golowkin announced the end of his long-term collaboration with his trainer Abel Sanchez .

List of professional fights

40 wins (35 knockout wins), 1 defeat , 1 draw
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Golovkin
2006	May 6th	Castello Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany	Gabor Balogh	Victory / KO 1st round
	29th of July	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena , Oberhausen, Germany	Siarhei Navarka	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	August 22nd	Universum-Gym, Hamburg, Germany	Daniel Urbanski	Victory / TKO 4th round
	September 19th	Kugelbake-Halle, Lower Saxony, Germany	Martin's kukulis	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 21	Sports hall Brandberge , Halle an der Saale, Germany	Jorge Ariel Garcia	Victory / KO 2nd round
	2. December	Estrel Convention Center , Berlin, Germany	Sylvain Gomis	Victory / KO 4th round
2007	27th of February	Kugelbake-Halle, Lower Saxony, Germany	Simon Mokoena	Victory / abandonment 6th round
	25. May	Fight Night Arena, Cologne, Germany	Sergey Khomitsky	Victory / TKO 5th round
	7th of September	Castello Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany	Mehdi Bouadla	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
2008	February 29th	Sports hall Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany	Tshepo Mashego	Victory / KO 1st round
	April 5th	Castello Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany	Ian Gardner	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	10th of May	Sports hall Brandberge , Halle an der Saale, Germany	Ibrahim Sid	Victory / TKO 8th round
	June 21st	Brøndby Hallen , Brondby, Denmark	Amar Amari	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	22nd of November	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Malik Dziarra	Victory / abandonment 2nd round
2009	January 17th	Castello Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, Germany	Javier Alberto Mamani	Victory / TKO 1st round
	April 25	Yayla-Arena , Krefeld, Germany	Anthony Greenidge	Victory / KO 5th round
	July 11th	Nürburgring , Nürburg, Germany	John Anderson Carvalho WBO Intercontinental Middleweight Championship	Victory / KO 2nd round
	21st November	Sparkassen-Arena , Kiel, Germany	Mikhail Makarov	Victory / KO 2nd round
2010	August 14th	Arena Roberto Duran, Panama City, Panama	Milton Núñez Regular WBA World Middleweight Championship	Victory / KO 1st round
	December 16	Sports Complex “Daulet”, Astana, Kazakhstan	Nilson Julio Tapia regular WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
2011	17th of June	Arena Roberto Duran, Panama City, Panama	Kassim Ouma regular WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / TKO 10th round
	9th of December	Ballroom Interconti-Hotel, Düsseldorf, Germany	Lajuan Simon vacant IBO World Middleweight Championship	Victory / KO 1st round
2012	12th of May	Ice Palace, Brovari, Ukraine	Makoto Fuchigami IBO Middleweight Title Defense	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	September 1	Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, USA	Grzegorz Proksa IBO middleweight title defense	Victory / TKO 5th round
2013	January 19th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Gabriel Rosado IBO middleweight title defense	Victory / TKO 7th round
	March 30	Salle des Ètoiles , Monte Carlo, Monaco	Nobuhiro Ishida IBO middleweight title defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
	June 29th	MGM Grand, Connecticut, USA	Matthew Macklin IBO Middleweight Title Defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
	November 2	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Curtis Stevens IBO middleweight title defense	Victory / abandonment 8th round
2014	February 1st	Salle des Ètoiles , Monte Carlo, Monaco	Osumanu Adama IBO Middleweight Title Defense	Victory / TKO 7th round
	July 26th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Daniel Geale IBO / WBA Middleweight Title Association	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 18	StubHub Center , California, USA	Marco Antonio Rubio IBO / WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
2015	21st of February	Salle des Ètoiles , Monte Carlo, Monaco	Martin Murray IBO / WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / TKO 11th round
	May 16	The Forum , Inglewood, USA	Willie Monroe junior IBO / WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / TKO 6th round
	October 17th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	David Lemieux IBF / IBO / WBA Middleweight Title Association	Victory / TKO 8th round
2016	April 23	The Forum , Inglewood, USA	Dominic Wade IBF / IBO / WBA middleweight title defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
	September 10	The O2 Arena , Greenwich, UK	Kell Brook IBF / IBO / WBC Middleweight Title Defense	Victory / TKO 5th round
2017	March 18th	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Daniel Jacobs IBF / IBO / WBA / WBC Middleweight Title Defense	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	16th September	T-Mobile Arena , Las Vegas, USA	Saúl Álvarez IBF / IBO / WBA / WBC Middleweight Title Defense	Tie (split decision) / 12 rounds
2018	5th of May	StubHub Center , California, USA	Vanes Martirosyan IBO / WBA / WBC Middleweight Title Defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
	September 15th	T-Mobile Arena , Las Vegas, USA	Saúl Álvarez IBO / WBA / WBC Middleweight Title Defense	Point loss (majority decision) / 12 rounds
2019	8th June	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Steve Rolls	Victory / KO 4th round
	5th October	Madison Square Garden , New York, USA	Serhiy Derevyanchenko vacant IBF / IBO World Middleweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
Source: Gennadi Golowkin in the BoxRec database

Dates and achievements

Trainer:	Magomed Schaburow (2006–2011), Abel Sanchez (2011–2019)
Manager:	Tom Loeffler
Consultant:	Oleg Hermann
Alias:	Triple G (GGG)
Weight (Ø):	72.3 kg (September 2018)
Size:	1.78 meters

Successes as an amateur:

• 345 wins - 5 losses
• November 2000: 1st place in the light welterweight division at the 11th Junior World Championships in Budapest , Hungary
• May 2001: 1st place in welterweight at the 3rd East Asian Games in Osaka , Japan
• October 2002: 1st place in the light middleweight division at the 14th Asian Games in Busan , South Korea
• July 2003: 1st place in the middleweight division at the 12th World Championships in Bangkok , Thailand
• January 2004: 1st place in the middleweight division at the 22nd Asian Championships in Puerto Princesa , Philippines
• August 2004: 2nd middleweight position at the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Athens , Greece

Success as a professional

• 38 wins (including 34 knockouts) - 1 loss - 1 draw
• December 16, 2010: WBA World Middleweight Champion (9 title defenses)
• December 9, 2011: IBO World Middleweight Champion (17 title defenses)
• June 3, 2014: WBA Super Middleweight Champion (9 title defenses)
• October 17, 2015: IBF World Middleweight Champion (4 title defenses)
• May 18, 2016: WBC World Middleweight Champion (4 title defenses)

Regional titles

• July 11, 2009: WBO Intercontinental Middleweight Champion
• August 14, 2010: WBA interim middleweight champion
• October 18, 2014: WBC Interim Middleweight Champion (4 title defenses)

Web links

• Official Facebook page of Gennady "GGG" Golovkin
• Official Twitter page of Gennady "GGG" Golovkin
• Gennadi Golowkin in the BoxRec database
• Official website of Gennady "GGG" Golovkin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Results of the 2003 World Championships in Thailand
3. ^ Boxing results of the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece
4. ↑ Sanchez-Golovkin [2]
5. ↑ ESPN News - Golowkin's daughter born [3]
6. ↑ Results of the Junior World Championships 2000 in Hungary
7. ^ Results of the East Asian Games 2001 in Japan
8. ^ Results of the 2002 Asian Games in South Korea
9. ↑ Results of the 2004 Asian Championships in the Philippines
10. ↑ Ringside Boxing Event Report
11. ^ Boxnation report
12. ↑ Sweet Science Report
13. ↑ Fightnews ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ WBA recognizes Geale super title: Golovkin is now sole champion . Boxes.de on November 1, 2012. Accessed June 15, 2013
15. ↑ Martin Murray is said to be the next Golowkin victim spox.com
16. ↑ Boxing No. 12/01 14/15, page 20
17. ↑ Gennady Golovkin beats Martin Murray Ko ran.de, February 22, 2015.
18. ↑ Golowkin sends Monroe Jr. to the boards ran.de, May 17, 2015
19. ↑ GGG vs. Lemieux breaks pre-sale ticket record espn.go.com
20. ↑ Gennady Golovkin to face Dominic Wade in next fight before Showdown with Canelo Alvarez latinpost.com
21. ↑ Canelo Alvarez resigns WBC title boxen.de, May 18, 2016
22. ↑ TKo! GGG handles Brook! sport.de, September 11, 2016
23. ↑ Loeffler says Golovkin is a big ticket seller in two countries boxingscene.com
24. ↑ Golovkin triumph in the duel of the knockout machines spox.com, March 19, 2017
25. ↑ Canelo Alavrez vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr .: Golovkin enters Ring in Promotion latimes.com, May 7, 2017
26. ^ Boxing World Championships Golovkin vs Alvarez - No winner, but only winner Spiegel Online, September 17, 2017
27. ↑ Gennady Golovkin scores 2nd Round ties Hopkins' Record nypost.com, May 6, 2018.
28. ↑ IBF recognizes Gennady Golovkin from the World Cup Tital from Kasten1.com, June 6, 2018.
29. ↑ Gennadi Golovkin is subject to "Canelo" Alvarez - and is surprised Sport1.de, September 16, 2018.
30. ↑ Gennady Golovkin is fighting for the rest of his career at DAZN spox.com, March 8, 2019.
31. ↑ Gennady Golovkin splits with longtime trainer Abel Sanchez latimes.com, April 24, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Felix Sturm	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) August 14, 2010 - June 3, 2014	vacant Daniel Jacobs
Avtandil Khurtsidze	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBO ) December 19, 2011 - September 15, 2018	vacant
vacant Daniel Geale	Super Middleweight Champion ( WBA ) June 3, 2014 - September 15, 2018	Saúl Álvarez
David Lemieux	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) October 17, 2015 - June 6, 2018	vacant Daniel Jacobs
Saúl Álvarez	Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) May 18, 2016 - September 15, 2018	Saúl Álvarez