{"id":86037,"date":"2025-11-24T05:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/golovkin-to-lead-new-olympic-boxing-entity-for-los-angeles-2028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:53:41","slug":"golovkin-to-lead-new-olympic-boxing-entity-for-los-angeles-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/golovkin-to-lead-new-olympic-boxing-entity-for-los-angeles-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Golovkin to lead new Olympic boxing entity for Los Angeles 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gennadiy Golovkin will assume the presidency of the new entity that will manage Olympic boxing<\/h2>\n<p>Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport&#8217;s most lucrative fights, is set to lead the new organization that will oversee boxing tournaments at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Golovkin, initially scheduled to compete against Greek official Mariolis Charilaos in a vote for the presidency of World Boxing in Rome, is now the only eligible candidate after an evaluation process, the organization announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former middleweight champion from Kazakhstan was widely considered the favorite, after leading a World Boxing delegation to rebuild the relationship with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had suggested the possibility of removing boxing from the Olympic program for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Golovkin won an Olympic silver medal in 2004 and, after turning professional, was a world champion for a long time, ending his career with a record of 42-2-1.<\/p>\n<p>World Boxing, founded in 2023 amid a dispute between the IOC and the International Boxing Association, did not specify the reasons why Charilaos is no longer a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gennadiy Golovkin will assume the presidency of the new entity that will manage Olympic boxing Former boxing champion Gennadiy Golovkin, known for participating in some of the sport&#8217;s most lucrative fights, is set to lead the new organization that will oversee boxing tournaments at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Golovkin, initially scheduled to compete against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,10546,631,597],"class_list":{"0":"post-86037","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\/86037","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=86037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}