Gennady Golovkin

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Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: Геннадий Геннадьевич Головкин; also spelled Gennadiy; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname “GGG” or “Triple G”, is a Kazakhstani former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2022. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former unified champion. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles at varying points between 2014 and 2023, and challenged once for the undisputed super middleweight championship in 2022. He is also a former International Boxing Organization (IBO) middleweight champion, having held the title twice between 2011 and 2023. Golovkin was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2026.
Golovkin was ranked as the world’s best boxer, pound for pound, from September 2017 to September 2018 by The Ring magazine. He was also ranked as the world’s best active middleweight by The Ring, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, ESPN, and BoxRec. His 20 consecutive middleweight title defenses are tied with Bernard Hopkins for the most in the division’s history.
In 2010, Golovkin won the WBA interim…