Former middleweight world champion Gennadiy Golovkin has formally joined World Boxing’s push to maintain the game within the Olympics for 2028 in Los Angeles, as he has been named to chair an “Olympic commision” with World Boxing, the group searching for to achieve Worldwide Olympic Committe (IOC) recognition.
Boxing is at the moment up within the air the the 2028 Olympics, and was overseen for the 2020 and 2024 competitions in Tokyo and Paris by an IOC “job drive” that changed the suspended Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (IBA). In 2023, the IOC fully revoked recognition of the IBA.
However Golovkin — who competed for Kazakhstan and gained a silver medal in Athens again in 2004 — hopes to guide the motion for World Boxing’s recognition, because the IOC not has any want to arrange the occasion itself.
“For me, personally, in addition to for all of the sports activities world, you will need to protect boxing as an Olympic sport, and this might be my prime precedence,” Golovkin mentioned in an announcement. “I additionally intend to work intently with the IOC on problems with boxing’s dedication to the Olympic values of honesty, equity and transparency.”
Golovkin, 42, was named President of the Nationwide Olympic Committee for his dwelling nation earlier this 12 months. His skilled boxing profession noticed him go 42-2-1 (37 KO) over 16-plus years, along with his final combat coming simply over two years in the past. He has by no means formally introduced an in-ring retirement, however the broad perception is he won’t combat once more.
