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Gennady Golovkin

1982 - Today

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Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: Генна́дий Генна́дьевич Голо́вкин; also spelled Gennady; 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gennady Golovkin is the 49th most popular boxer (up from 134th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Kazakhstani Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Gennady Golovkin ranks 49 out of 496Before him are Henry Armstrong, José Torres, Oleksandr Usyk, Emile Griffith, Kim Duk-koo, and Leon Spinks. After him are Earnie Shavers, Éder Jofre, Ezzard Charles, John L. Sullivan, Tommy Morrison, and Rocky Graziano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Gennady Golovkin ranks 49Before him are Jamie Dornan, Alberto Gilardino, Justine Henin, Darijo Srna, Neil Robertson, and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. After him are Paul Wesley, Jodie Whittaker, Elisha Cuthbert, Antonio Cassano, Jared Padalecki, and Marco Di Meco.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Gennady Golovkin ranks 38 out of 193Before him are Akhmet Baitursynov (1872), Abul Khair Khan (1693), Nina Lobkovskaya (1925), Aleksandr Viktorenko (1947), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), and Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841). After him are Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912), Talgat Musabayev (1951), Alexander Vinokourov (1973), Alexander Dutov (1864), Turar Ryskulov (1894), and Vsevolod Ivanov (1895).

Among BOXERS In Kazakhstan

Among boxers born in Kazakhstan, Gennady Golovkin ranks 2Before him are Wladimir Klitschko (1976). After him are Oleg Maskayev (1969), Vassiliy Jirov (1974), Bekzat Sattarkhanov (1980), Serik Sapiyev (1983), Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (1981), Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (1976), Daniyar Yeleussinov (1991), Beibut Shumenov (1983), Ivan Dychko (1990), and Birzhan Zhakypov (1984).