Gennady Golovkin
Gennady Golovkin Gennadjewitsch (Russian Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин; born April 8, 1982 in Karaganda, Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan ) is a Kazakhstani professional boxer and current world champion of the WBA and IBO middleweight.
Amateur career
Golowkins first international success was winning the Junior World Championship 2000 in Budapest. He defeated it superior Hao Yen Kuo from Taiwan (abort ), Alexander Renz of Germany ( 26:7 ), Benjamin Kalinovic from Sweden ( 21:10 ), Yevgeny Putilov from Russia ( 24:10 ) and Maikel Pérez from Cuba ( 30: 17). Six months later, he won with victories against the South Korean Soo- Young Kim (Crash), the Chinese Chi -Wan Song (Crash) and Australian Daniel Geale ( 15:3 ), the East Asian Games in Japan.
He then took part in the 2002 Asian Games in South Korea, where he defeated and thus Abdullah Shekib from Afghanistan ( Cancel) Nagimeldin Adam from Qatar ( Cancel) Song In Joon of South Korea ( 18:12 ) and Suriya Prasathinphimai from Thailand (Cancel) Gold won. At the 2003 World Championships in Thailand, he was able to finally establish a world leader; he defeated in the preliminary round of the two -time world champion Matvey Korobov ( 19:10), in the second round of the Vice Junior World Champion Andy Lee ( 29:9 ), in the quarterfinals the winner of the Francophone Games Lucian Bute ( Ko), in the semifinals two times bronze medalist at World Championships Yordanis Despaigne ( 29:26 ) and in the final of the European Champion Oleg Mashkin ( abort).
In January 2004, he won the Asia Cup in the Philippines and launched in August of the same year at the Olympic Games in Athens. There he could against Ahmad Ali Khan ( 31:10 ), Ramadan Yasser ( 31:20 ) and Andre Dirrell ( 23:18 ) fight his way to the final, where he lost to finally against Gaidarbek Gaidarbekow ( 18:28).
He is also a winner of the international tournaments Brandenburg Cup 2000 in Germany, Grand Prix Usti 2001 in the Czech Republic, Ahmet Cömert 2003 in Turkey, Golden Belt 2004 in Romania and Amber Gloves 2005 in Russia.
He denied, according to various sources 350-360 struggles.
Amateur achievements
- November 2000: 1st place in the Light Welterweight at the 11th Junior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary
- May 2001: 1st place in the welterweight division at the 3rd East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan
- October 2002: 1st place at Light Middleweight 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 22th Asian Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines
- August 2004: 2nd place in the middleweight division at the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
Professional
His professional career began Gennady Golovkin 2006 Spotlight Boxing, a sister company of Universum Box-Promotion. He was first trained by Magomed Schaburow. His first professional fight, he completed on 6 May 2006 compared Gabor Balogh and won by KO in the first round. Already in his third fight he beat the future world junior champion of the IBF Light Middleweight, Daniel Urbanski technical knockout in round four. This was followed by 13 more wins, ten by Ko, against nationally known opponents such as the South American champions Javier Alberto Mamani, and former International German Champion Malik Dziarra.
11 July 2009 Golovkin won the Intercontinental Championship title by the WBO Ko in the second round against John Anderson Carvalho. On November 21, Gennady Golovkin GGG completed his last fight for Spotlight Boxing, announced his contract in January 2010 and started his own business. With his new management Golovkin GGG got the status of Pflichtherausforders at the WBA and was allowed to fight for the first time in his pro career at the WBA interim world championship. On 14 August 2010, he secured by whacked in round 1 against Milton Núñez the interim WBA World Championship. The former WBA world champion Felix Sturm was appointed by the WBA for his success to the super champion Gennady Golovkin and was given the opportunity for the world championship title of the WBA boxing and made this fight in December 2010 in Astana, Kazakhstan. This was the first fight in his professional career, he made in his home country Kazakhstan and won in the 3rd round by KO Nilson Julio Tapia against Panama.
In the summer of 2011, Golovkin entirely separated from his former promoter Universum Box-Promotion, who had tried to get him in court to continue to fight for this promotion. Before the OLG Hamburg an agreement was reached and thus Golovkin was free boxer and could plan his pro career and shape ourselves. Late 2011 signed Golovkin a promoter contract with Tom Loeffler from the U.S., who works for K2 Promotions, which was founded by the Klitschko brothers in the United States.
After an early title defense against Kassim Ouma to Golovkin won the vacant IBO title on December 9, 2011 by a superior first-round co against Lajuan Simon from the USA. Both world title he defended with premature victory 12 May 2012 against the Japanese Makoto Fuchigami in Kiev, Ukraine.
On 1 September 2012, Gennady Golovkin celebrated against Poland Grzegorz Proksa his U.S. debut in Verona, NY, USA. That was the first fight of Golovkin, who was transferred from the TV channel HBO. After the reigning world champion Daniel Geale Super the title was stripped, Golovkin is since November 1, 2012 the sole champion of the WBA.
On January 19, 2013, the second battle ensued on HBO in the famous Madison Square Garden in New York. In this fight against Gabriel Rosado GGG won in Philadelphia in the 7th round by TKO after rosados corner threw in the towel around her boxer to preserve from more serious injuries. After a knockout win against Nobuhiro Ishida, he defended both world championship belts by Ko in the third round against Matthew Macklin.
On November 2, 2013 Golovkin Curtis Stevens defeated by TKO in the eighth round, and on February 1, 2014 also Osumanu Adama prematurely in round 7
Golovkin is currently (9 August 2013) carried out in the independent BoxRec rankings in the middleweight division at Rank 2.