Re: Golovkin's amateur career

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  1. Brixton Bomber

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    1) How big of a puncher was he in the unpaid ranks?
    2) Who were the biggest names that he knocked out/beat?
    3) Who were more formidable punchers at his weight class at the time?
     
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  2. qwertyblahblah

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    Let's start with his knockout of Lucian Bute...

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    Gennady Golovkin goes into the record books: Guinness Book of Records recognize GGG as having the highest KO percentage in middleweight championship history

    World middleweight king Gennady Golovkin picked up three awards at the annual WBC convention in Hollywood, the most prestigious possibly being the distinction of being recognized by The Guinness Book of Records as having THE highest KO percentage in the history of middleweight world championship boxing.

    GGG, who fought just twice this year, also picked up two WBC awards – one for Event of The Year, for his dominant stoppage victory over Kell Brook in September, the other, a special award, for being Most Dominant Boxer. The place he now occupies in the prestigious Guinness Book of Records arguably made GGG feel most proud though.

    With a record of 36-0(33) Golovkin has tallied a KO win percentage of 91.67% – achieved between May 2006 to September of 2016. Flanked by former greats such as Marvelous Marvin Hagler (arguably the greatest middleweight champion in history) and Vitali Klitschko, Golovkin said it was a real honour being “part of [the] WBC family.”

    Fans are eager to see Golovkin back in action and scoring more KO’s. Recently, his trainer Abel Sanchez said it is his hope that his fighter boxes four times in 2017 and as unrealistic as that might be, fans would sure welcome that high level of activity. But do the other middleweights, such as Danny Jacobs (next in line, the fight set to go to purse bids soon) and Billy Joe Saunders (who, with the WBO belt, holds the only middleweight belt GGG does not have his hands on) really want to face him in the ring?

    Fans hope so, as do they continue to live in hope that GGG and Saul Canelo Alvarez will get it on next September. Golovkin hasn’t had anything approaching a bad year here in 2016, but with just two wins, it hasn’t been as great a year as it could have been. If Golovkin can get the fights he wants, next year could be a much greater one for him.

    by James Slater - December 13, 2016




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  4. theXshape

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    The big name that he beat on his amateur resume are Bute, Korobov, Geale, Lee and Andre Dirrell (lost to him the 1st fight, won the 2nd). Don't know if he beat any other known names tough.
     
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  5. Serge

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    Some of the best amateurs he fought

    Matvey Korobov 2 x world amateur gold medalist, European gold (311-10)

    Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov Olympic gold and silver medalist, European gold

    Marian Simion Olympic gold & silver medalist, world amateur gold, silver & bronze medalist, European silver & 2 x bronze

    Bakhtiyar Artayev Olympic gold medalist, 2 x world amateur bronze

    Damian Austin 2 x world amateur gold medalist

    Yordanis Despaigne 2 x world amateur championships bronze medalist

    Lucian Bute world amateur championships bronze medalist

    Andy Lee world junior championships silver medalist, European bronze

    Andre Dirrell Olympic bronze medalist (210-26)

    Mike Perez world junior gold medalist
     
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  6. Chuck Norris

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    Golovkin and Perez fought ?
     
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  7. Brixton Bomber

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    Wow, thanks!

    What happened to some of the guys who aren't household pro names though?
     
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  8. Serge

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    Yes they fought each other in the final of the world junior amateur championships in 2000. They were stablemates for a while in the pros too.

    http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/WorldJuniorChamps2000.html

    Perez was a good amateur. He has wins and loses against Luis Ortiz and Yunier Dorticos among others. He also beat Ireland's Olympic silver medalist Kenny Egan in the unpaid ranks too.

    Here's a couple of sites with his partial record. But he obviously had way, way more fights than that

    https://web.archive.org/web/20091026205630/http://www.geocities.com/pedrinet/perez.html

    http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=15773
     
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  9. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    No problem.

    Gaydarbekov, Simion, Artayev and Austin never turned pro. It's a shame they didn't.
     
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  10. Serge

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    double post
     
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  11. PaddyGarcia

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    Good knowledge, Serge. Didn't know he fought Mike Perez, that's pretty interesting.

    Would I be right in saying Korobov is probably one of the most impressive wins for unpaid level? he was a pretty good Am himself
     
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  12. KiwiMan

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    Yep. Korobov was a superb amateur who beat Kovalev and Usyk among many others.

    However, he hasn't transitioned well to the pro game.
     
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  13. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Thanks.

    Yes you would, Korobov has an insane amateur CV and record.


    A list of some of his achievements and the scalps he collected and the scalps his scalps collected too

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    2008 Feliks Stamm Memorial (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2007 World Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2006 World Cup (amateur) – Gold Medalist...

    2006 European Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2005 World Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2005 World Cup (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2005 Strandja Memorial (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2004 Russian National Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2003 World Military Championships (amateur) champion, 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2003 Russian National Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    2002 World Military Championships (amateur), 165 pounds – Gold Medalist...

    1999 European Cadet Championships (amateur), 145 pounds - Gold Medalist...

    His CV is insane he went on something like a five year unbeaten run IIRC (his manager Cameron Dunkin said his loss against Bakhtiyar Artayev was his first in 5 years but I'll have to check to see if that's true) whilst competing in many major championships and other prestigious tournaments against the best in the world. He defeated so many top quality guys along the way too

    Some of his amateur scalps

    Oleksandr Usyk: 400-10 Olympic gold medalist/world amateur gold & silver medalist/European gold medalist - beat Korobov, Olympic gold medalist/2 x world amateur gold medalist/world amateur gold & silver medalist/European gold medalist Artur Beterbiev, 2 x world amateur champion/2 x Olympic silver medalist/European gold & silver medalist Clemente Russo, world amateur gold & silver medalist/Olympic gold medalist/European gold & silver medalist Teymur Mammadov, Olympic silver medalist, world amateur bronze medalist, European bronze medalist Joe Joyce, Olympic bronze medalist/2 x European & 1 x bronze medalist Tervel Pulev, Olympic silver medalist Vasily Levit, 2 x world amateur bronze medalist John M'Bumba

    Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov: Olympic gold & silver medalist/European gold medalist - beat Golovkin, Zsolt Erdei, world amateur gold, silver & bronze medalist/Olympic bronze medalist Utkirbek Haydarov, Jermain Taylor, Jeff Lacy, Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam

    Ismail Sillakh: 302-16 world amateur silver medalist/European silver medalist - beat Gaydarbekov, world amateur gold and silver medalist/2 x European gold medalist Artur Beterbiev, 2 x world amateur gold medalist/Olympic bronze medalist Abbos Atoev, Thabiso Mchunu, Badou Jack, Dmitry Chudinov, Yunier Dorticos and 2 or 3 other top Cubans, Vyacheslav Shabranskyy

    Alfonso Blanco: world amateur silver and bronze medalist - beat Olympic gold medalists James DeGale and Bakhtiyar Artayev, 2 x world amateur silver medalist/2 x Olympic silver medalist Adilbek Niyazymbetov, Emilio Correra, Mike Perez, Dmitry Chudinov, Felix Valera, Darren Sutherland

    Sergey Kovalev: unified WBA, IBF & WBO LHW champ, 2 x world military champion 193-22 - beat Korobov too

    Emilio Correra: Olympic silver medalist/world amateur bronze medalist - beat Sergey Derevianchenko, Marco Periban, Jarrod Fletcher and knocked out Shawn Porter

    Yordanis Despaigne: 2 x world amateur bronze medalist - beat world amateur gold, silver & bronze medalist/Olympic bronze medalist Utkirbek Haydarov, Andre Dirrell, Olympic silver medalist/2 x European bronze medalist Kenny Egan, Jean Pascal, Karoly Balzsay

    Sergiy Derevyanchenko: world amateur bronze medalist and top class amateur 390-20, went 23-1 in the WSB

    Danny Jacobs: WBA regular champ, highly decorated amateur 137-7

    Badou Jack: WBC SMW champ, 150-25 as an amateur

    Fedor Chudinov: world junior champion, standout on the Russian national squad, over 170 wins

    Dmitry Chudinov: standout on the Russian national squad 159-16

    Sebastian Zbik - robbed against Julio Cesar Chavez for the WBC MW crown

    Darren Sutherland - beat Olympic gold medalist DeGale 4 times and stopped Edwin Rodriguez on the outclassed rule

    Jarrod Fletcher - beat DeGale and Adonis Stevenson

    Mohamed Hikal - beat Golovkin and Usyk
     
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  14. Brixton Bomber

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    How good could those guys have been, IYO?
     
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  15. bcr

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    This is pretty much all you have to know, Golovkin also won an olympic silver and world championship gold, his run at the 2003 world championship was impressive with wins over Bute, Lee, Korobov and Despaigne, with Korobov probably being his best amateur win, between 2005-2007, Korobov was considered the best amateur in the world, his win over Artayev is big too because Artayev was an olympic gold and val barker winner.
     
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