Question about Golovkin for Kazakh fans

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  1. Lucian Bute

    Lucian Bute Active Member Full Member

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    Golovkin was born and brought up in Kazakhstan but I understand he is ethnically Russian. Golovkin seems to identify very strongly with Kazakhstan though. Why is that, given his ethnicity? The Klitschko brothers, for example, don't identify strongly with Kazakhstan, where they were born.
     
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  2. irishny

    irishny Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    The Klits were simply born in Kazakhstan, nothing more. They were army brats.

    They were raised in Ukraine.

    GGG was raised in Kazakhstan...and his mother is actually Korean too as far as Im aware.
     
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  3. JohnAnthony

    JohnAnthony Boxing Junkie banned

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    You've posted a question purely for Kasakh people?

    I'm not sure how many responses you will get.
     
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  4. Vidic

    Vidic Rest in Peace Manny Full Member

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    This ^
     
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  5. Lucian Bute

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    His mother is Korean??:blood No way!
     
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  6. Tyler-Durden

    Tyler-Durden Boxing Junkie banned

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    Yes. Maybe ALLEXX could give you more infos.
     
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  7. Cletis VanDamme

    Cletis VanDamme Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Vitali was born in Kirghizistan.


    He kinda looks like one too.
     
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  8. Lucian Bute

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    His toughness and bravery from his father, his brains and discipline from his mother, good boy loves his country of birth too! :thumbsup
     
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  9. Lucian Bute

    Lucian Bute Active Member Full Member

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    The Klitschkos' mother is Russian, though, right?
     
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  10. madpuppy

    madpuppy Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Kazakhstan is quite an ethnically mixed place, lots of Russians came after the second world war in Kazakhstan's industrialization drive. Resource rich north of Kazakhstan to this day is majority ethnic Russian and I would say more than 90% of Kazakhstan's entire population have their first language as Russian. There are lots of ethnic Koreans in Kazakhstan also, but I don't know the history behind that - I know that the country's number two politician behind the president is an ethnic Korean.
     
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  11. WarpedDesign

    WarpedDesign Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It was so obvious he wasn't a white boy. Maybe now all the stormfront members on here can stop trying to adopt him as their poster boy and stick to the Klitschko's.
     
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  12. Hercegovac

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    He's still white to me damnit!!!

    I always figured he was an ethnic Kazakh, pretty mind blown that he's Russian and Korean
     
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  13. Vidic

    Vidic Rest in Peace Manny Full Member

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    :lol:
     
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  14. MaliBua

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    Michael, i found out today that the Klitschkos are jews.. It is all over man.. There were rumours thou that Pavlik getting sober and planning come back but just maybe... This all starting to make sense now. I am not surprised anymore sdunek tried to poison wlad. The fight was in HBO and sdunen did smell money>americans would love to watch defenceless jew getting beat crap out of him.
     
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  15. Beatle

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    Only Wladimir was born in Kazakhstan. Vitali was born in Kirgistan. Their father was always travelling, and so they just happened to be born in those countries.

    They identify with Ukraine because they've spent most of their lives there.

    As for Golovkin, here in Russia no one knows who he is. He needs to convince Sergio Martinez to grow a pair of balls and fight him, or else Gennady will have to wait a few more years to become famous.
     
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