Gennady Golovkin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is
Gennadyevich and the family name is Golovkin.
Gennadiy Golovkin
Геннадий Головкин
Gennady Golovkin (KAZ) 2017.png
Golovkin in 2017
Statistics
Real name Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin
Nickname(s) GGG ("Triple G")
Weight(s)
Middleweight
Super middleweight
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)[1]
Reach 70 in (178 cm)[1]
Nationality Kazakhstani
Born 8 April 1982 (age 40)
Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 44
Wins 42
Wins by KO 37
Losses 1
Draws 1
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing Kazakhstan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Middleweight
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Bangkok Middleweight
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2000 Budapest Light welterweight
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2002 Astana Light middleweight
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Moscow Middleweight
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Light middleweight
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Puerto Princesa Middleweight
East Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2001 Osaka Welterweight
Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: Генна́дий Генна́дьевич Голо́вкин; also
spelled Gennady;[2] born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or
"Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight
world championships, and is a two-time unified champion, having held the IBF title
since 2019 and the WBA (Super) title since April 2022. Previously he held the
unified WBA (Super), WBC and IBF titles between 2014 and 2018. He is also a two-
time IBO middleweight champion, in his second reign since 2019.

Golovkin was ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017
to September 2018 by The Ring magazine. As of August 2022, he is ranked as the
world's eighth best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec,[3] and tenth by the
Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB).[4] He is also ranked as the world's
best active middleweight by BoxRec,[5] The Ring,[6] and TBRB,[7] and second by
ESPN.[8]
In 2010, Golovkin won the WBA interim middleweight title by defeating Milton Núñez.
The WBA elevated him to Regular champion status in the same year. 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. Golovkin
lost all his titles, including his undefeated record, following a loss to Álvarez
in 2018. He regained his IBF and IBO titles by defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko in
2019, and regained his WBA (Super) title by defeating Ryōta Murata in 2022.