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}} Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (; born 8 April 1982) is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He is the current, unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBC (interim) and IBO middleweight champion. BoxRec currently ranks him as the world's number one middleweight, and number two pound for pound.〔http://boxrec.com/records?reset=1〕〔http://boxrec.com/records?reset=1&sex=m&division=Middleweight&status=〕 He is also ranked as the third best boxer in the world by ''The Ring'' magazine.〔http://ringtv.craveonline.com/ratings〕 For his efforts in 2013, Golovkin was named the Fighter of the Year by readers of ''The Ring''. Golovkin holds the highest knockout percentage – 91.2% – in middleweight championship history and is said to have one of the hardest chins in modern boxing, having never been knocked down or knocked out in over 375 fights, either as a professional, amateur or in sparring.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-2960964/Gennady-Golovkin-Anatomy-God-War-fists-steel-dancing-feet-granite-chin-aura-master.html〕 As an amateur he represented Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the middleweight division. In 2003, he won gold at the World Amateur Boxing Championships. == Early life == Gennady Golovkin was born on April 8, 1982, in the city of Karagandy in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union as one of four brothers to a Russian father who was a coal miner, and a Korean mother who was an assistant in a chemical laboratory.〔(FIGHTER'S INFO ), boxing.com, 2 September 2013〕 His older brothers, Sergey and Vadim, had pushed him into the ring. When he was eight, both of them joined the Soviet Army. In 1990, Gennady's brother Vadim was killed in action. In 1994, Sergey was also killed in action. There were no details given by the government officials and there was no funeral for either. Both brothers were lost before Gennady had turned 14. Golovkin however pressed on and used the family tragedy as motivation to continue fighting. Golovkin had been throwing big punches all his life. Growing up, Sergey and Vadim would walk the streets with Golovkin and pick men out of a crowd. Are you afraid of him, they would ask Gennady. When he said no, they told him to go get into a fight. Sometimes they wrestled, sometimes they boxed, sometimes they just threw punches. "My brothers, they were doing that from when I was in kindergarten," Golovkin said. "Every day, different guys." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gennady Golovkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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