GGG stories??

Some excerpts from a few different articles

'Growing up, Sergey and Vadim would walk the streets with Golovkin and pick men out of a crowd. Are you afraid of him, they would ask Gennady. When he said no, they told him to go get into a fight. Sometimes they wrestled, sometimes they boxed, sometimes they just threw punches.

"My brothers, they were doing that from when I was in kindergarten," Golovkin said. "Every day, different guys."


'This is not only because life was tough in the Kazakh city of Karagandy in those oppressive years when the Soviet Union was breaking apart. He had a Russian coal-miner father and a loving Korean mother to steer him through hard times.

It is what happened to his two elder brothers which seems to be at the root of a reluctance to talk about his childhood.

Sergey and Vadim took Gennady to the boxing gym as an eight-year-old. When they saw the damage which those young fists were capable of they picked street fights for him against grown men, which he invariably won, as a hardening process for the boxing life to come.

That sibling bond was broken when Golovkin’s brothers failed to return home shortly after joining the Soviet Army.

There was no burial with honours. No recognition of bravery, No explanation of how they died. Not for casualties of the secret wars being waged in Russia at the time.

Golovkin says only that ‘life was hard.’ But it does seem that the steel behind the smile was forged in that dark, sinister mystery.

Triple G, as Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin has become known, is fighting for even more than the global recognition of his talents, which he hopes this weekend’s high-profile exposure in Britain will accelerate.

He is fighting for the memory of the brothers he lost and for his twin, Max, who he says was an even more accomplished boxer than himself but allowed him to target amateur glory first before becoming part of his team.'




'The late 1980s and early 1990s in the Soviet Union were a disruptive time for its inhabitants. War, turmoil, and the evident collapse of The Union were looming across Northern Europe. Just a boy, Gennady Golovkin had already started to become one of the world’s greatest boxers.

'While just a young boy in only Kindergarten, Gennady’s older brothers would instigate fights with him and other boys, often strangers in a crowd. They were older, bigger, wiser, and headed into the military. Gennady looked up to them in a way that only a young boy could. His twin brother was no different; fighting and learning the art of being fearless.

At eight years old, he was pushed by his these same brothers, Sergey and Vadim, to start boxing. Gennady and his twin brother Max did as they were told, learning the art of boxing by watching fights from America on television. Gennady was already taking notes from Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhamad Ali, Mike Tyson, and other American greats. He wasn’t just a kid who liked to throw punches, he was an immediate student.'