Gennadiy Golovkin Assumes World Boxing Presidency with Eyes on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
ROME – Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport’s most lucrative fights, is preparing to assume the presidency of the new body in charge of managing the Olympic boxing tournaments at the Los Angeles 2028 Games.Golovkin, initially scheduled to compete against Greek official Mariolis Charilaos in a vote for the presidency of World Boxing in Rome, was confirmed as the only eligible candidate after an evaluation process, as announced by the organization on Friday.
The former middleweight champion, originally from Kazakhstan, was widely considered the favorite. This is because he led a World Boxing delegation to rebuild ties with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had hinted at the possibility of excluding boxing from the Olympic program for 2028. Golovkin, who won an Olympic silver medal in 2004, had a successful professional career. He was a world champion for a long time, finishing his career with a record of 42-2-1. World Boxing, which was founded in 2023 amid a dispute between the IOC and the International Boxing Association, did not specify the reasons why Charilaos was no longer considered a candidate.
