Gennadiy Golovkin
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Gennadiy Golovkin (born April 8, 1982) is an Kazakh boxer who competed in the Middleweight (75 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.
[edit] Amateur
A year earlier, at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok, he won the gold medal in the same division middleweight beating Lucian Bute. He has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he lost to the Russian Gaidarbekov and won the silver medal
At the world championships 2005 he sensationally lost to Mohamed Hikal.
[edit] Pro
He turned pro in Germany and won his first 8 fights.
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