Kazakhstani professional boxer Gennady Golovkin has been included among the best boxers of the 21st century, reports the national portal Adyrna.
The Boxing.media platform has published a ranking of the strongest fighters of the modern era. In this list, the Kazakhstani boxer ranked 11th.
Golovkin successfully defended his championship belts in the middleweight division for many years under the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF), and World Boxing Council (WBC), leaving a remarkable mark on world boxing.
According to Boxing.media, the Top 25 boxers of the 21st century are:
- Floyd Mayweather (USA)
- Manny Pacquiao (Philippines)
- Bernard Hopkins (USA)
- Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine)
- Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (Mexico)
- Andre Ward (USA)
- Terence Crawford (USA)
- Juan Manuel Marquez (Mexico)
- Roy Jones Jr. (USA)
- Naoya Inoue (Japan)
- Gennady Golovkin (Kazakhstan)
- Joe Calzaghe (United Kingdom)
- Erik Morales (Mexico)
- Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine)
- Oscar De La Hoya (USA)
- Roman Gonzalez (Nicaragua)
- Tyson Fury (United Kingdom)
- Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico)
- Vitali Klitschko (Ukraine)
- Marco Antonio Barrera (Mexico)
- Katie Taylor (Ireland)
- Wladimir Klitschko (Ukraine)
- Claressa Shields (USA)
- Ronald Wright (USA)
- Timothy Bradley (USA)
It is worth noting that Gennady Golovkin had 350 amateur fights, winning 345 of them. In professional boxing, he fought 45 bouts, winning 42, including 37 by knockout.
