Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Who is Triple G?




Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, also known as GGG (Triple G), is one of boxing’s middleweight rising stars. This 31 year old was born in Kazakhstan. In his professional boxing career, he has won 29 fights and 26 of them have been knockouts. He currently has 16 knockouts in a row. He currently holds the greatest knockout ratio in middleweight championship history with an 89.65% knockout percentage rate. Golovkin is a very discipline boxer and he compares himself to the late great Sugar Ray Robinson because of his speed and power.

September 2012, I remember watching Golovkin’s USA debut on HBO Boxing and I thought to myself who is this guy from Kazakhstan? I thought he was a joke because of Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat. But Golovkin proved me wrong. He won by knocking out Grzegorz Proksa in the fifth round.

Since his USA debut, I became a fan of Triple G. He has fought five times since then and Golovkin’s power and technique is second to none. He has a great punching power to the body that punishes and breaks down his opponents. Golovkin’s body language in the ring always seems to be poised and he just sticks to the game plan. “The Ring” magazine named Triple G, Fighter of the Year with his 4 victories in 2013.


After defeating Mathew Macklin and CurtisStevens in 2013, Max Kellerman of HBO interviewed Golovkin and asked Triple G, “Who does he want next?” Golovkin called out Serigo Martinez, Middleweight WBC champion. Unfortunately, Martinez has agreed to fight another big name boxer, Miguel Cotto, on June 7, 2014.



Golovkin, in my opinion has proven himself to be an elite boxer and he deserves to fight the best pound for pound boxers. But many critics say that he is not ready and that he has not proven himself. Recently WBA Super Middleweight champion Andre Ward, said that Golovkin is not ready for him and that Golovkin is avoiding him. Nevertheless, Golovkin is going to stick around for a while and he is one of boxing super stars. As a boxing fan, I believe Golovkin needs to be put to the test and he prove he is the best pound for pound boxer out there.

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