Two-time middleweight world champion Gennadiy Golovkin has been appointed Chair of a new Olympic Commission by the World Boxing, the international federation established to try to ensure that boxing remains a part of the Olympic Movement.
Golovkin, 42, also the current President of the National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan and 2004 Olympic silver medalist, will work closely with World Boxing’s leadership to manage the organization’s relationship with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and oversee the pathway to ensuring that boxing is restored to the sport program for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
Other members of the Commission will be added in the coming weeks. So far, 44 national commissions have joined the World Boxing group.
Boxing is not currently on the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, however the IOC is open to restore boxing if a new governing body replaced the IBA, which was banned from the past two Olympics.
Has he officially retired?
Congratulations to GGG. He has always been a great example of what a true champion is and has completed at an elite level on both the amateurs and the pros. He has had his taste of controversial decisions in boxing so hopefully, one of his first decisions will be to clean up the judges and the scoring.
A true champion that waited for the cash cow fight? He was an HBO hype job and never took the biggest fights at middleweight. Didnt take the risk of losing the Canelo sweepstakes and sat on the shelf and got old. And still lost the fight when he gotten the rematch.
The true champions are the guys thats ready and willing to fight the best, not wait around to cash in on hype.
GGG was there to protect Canelo from the harder fights when he needed him. And Canelo choose him for good reason. He was the easier option and very well overhyped. Not surprised GGG gets a pass from you Gutes. Many middleweights had much more meaningful careers and got half the credit. They were calling him the best Middleweight in Boxing history smh
Again, making blanket statements. Do they ever teach you that if you make a claim that you offer your version of proof to back it up? Like, which middleweights other than the obvious Hopkins and hagler. Do tell.
Golovkin is 2-1 against canelo. At worst, 1-1-1.
GGG should be the rightful sole owner of the record for consecutive defenses at MW.
But Canelo’s PED use combined with shoddy in the bag judging stole that record from him.
GGG is a sensible and decent person and maybe he has a chance of bringing some respectability back to amateur boxing. More former professionals should get involved in this aspect of the sport. Philip Holiday has done good work for Australian boxing after leaving South Africa.