{"id":84706,"date":"2025-11-22T05:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/golovkin-will-lead-the-new-olympic-boxing-entity-towards-los-angeles-2028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:59:29","slug":"golovkin-will-lead-the-new-olympic-boxing-entity-towards-los-angeles-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/golovkin-will-lead-the-new-olympic-boxing-entity-towards-los-angeles-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Golovkin will lead the new Olympic boxing entity towards Los Angeles 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gennadiy Golovkin Assumes World Boxing Presidency with Eyes on the 2028 Olympics<\/h2>\n<p>Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport&#8217;s most lucrative fights, is set to assume the presidency of the new body in charge of managing the Olympic tournaments at the Los Angeles 2028 Games.<\/p>\n<p>Golovkin, initially scheduled to compete against Greek official Mariolis Charilaos in a vote for the presidency of World Boxing in Rome, became the only eligible candidate after an evaluation process, as announced by the organization on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former middleweight champion from Kazakhstan was considered the favorite, especially after leading a World Boxing delegation to rebuild relations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC had hinted at the possibility of excluding boxing from the Olympic program for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Golovkin, who won an Olympic silver medal in 2004, had a distinguished professional career, being a world champion for a long time and finishing with a record of 42-2-1.<\/p>\n<p>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 ceased to be a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gennadiy Golovkin Assumes World Boxing Presidency with Eyes on the 2028 Olympics Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport&#8217;s most lucrative fights, is set to assume the presidency of the new body in charge of managing the Olympic tournaments at the Los Angeles 2028 Games. Golovkin, initially scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,10546,631,597],"class_list":{"0":"post-84706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-golovkin","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-president"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}