Gennady Golovkin at the Head of the New Olympic Boxing Organization
Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport’s most lucrative fights, will assume the presidency of the new body in charge of managing boxing tournaments at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic 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, the organization announced on Friday.
The former middleweight champion from Kazakhstan was widely considered the favorite, after leading a World Boxing delegation to rebuild relations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC had hinted at the possibility of removing boxing from the Olympic program for 2028. Golovkin, Olympic silver medalist in 2004, had an outstanding professional career, being a world champion for a long time and finishing 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 a candidate.
