Korobov, Bute, Lee, Dirrell damn that is a nice amateur career and I am told he has four or five names on his pro record, although not famous fighters they are good wins. Fought four times this year and five times last year and pretty much knocking every out the puck out. How good is he? At the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_World_Amateur_Boxing_Championships"]2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships[/ame] in [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok"]Bangkok[/ame], he won the gold medal beating future two-time champion [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Korobov"]Matvey Korobov[/ame] (RUS) 19:10 , Andy Lee (29:9), [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Bute"]Lucian Bute[/ame] (stoppage), [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanis_Despaigne"]Yordanis Despaigne[/ame] in the semifinals (29:26) and Oleg Mahskin in the finals. At the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics"]2004 Summer Olympics[/ame] he beat [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_Yasser"]Ramadan Yasser[/ame] Abdelghafar 31 - 20 and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Dirrell"]Andre Dirrell[/ame] 23 - 18, lost to the Russian [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaydarbek_Gaydarbekov"]Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov[/ame] 18 -28 and won the silver medal. [1]. At the world championships 2005 he sensationally lost to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Hikal"]Mohamed Hikal[/ame]. [edit] Amateur Highlights 2000 won the Junior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary as a Light Welterweight. Results were: Defeated Hao Yen Kuo (Chinese Taipei) RSC-3 Defeated Alexander Renz (Germany) PTS (26-7) Defeated Benjamin Kalinovic (Croatia) PTS (21-10) Defeated Evgeni Putilov (Russia) PTS (24-10) Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maikel_Perez"]Maikel Perez[/ame] (Cuba) PTS (30-17) 2002 won the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea as a Light Middleweight. Results were: Defeated Abdullah Shekib (Afghanistan) AB-1 Defeated Nagimeldin Adam (Qatar) RSCO-1 Defeated Song In Joon (South Korea) PTS (18-12) Defeated Suriya Prasathinpimai (Thailand) RSCO-3 2003 won the World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand as a Middleweight. Results were: Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Korobov"]Matvey Korobov[/ame] (Russia) PTS (19-10) Defeated Andy Lee (Ireland) PTS (29-9) Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Bute"]Lucian Bute[/ame] (Romania) KO-4 Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanis_Despaigne"]Yordanis Despaigne[/ame] (Cuba) PTS (29-26) Defeated Oleg Mashkin (Ukraine) RSCI-2 2004 Middleweight Olympic Silver Medalist as a member of the Kazakhstani Olympic Team. His results were: Defeated Ali Ahmed Khan (Pakistan) 31-10 Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_Yasser"]Ramadan Yasser[/ame] (Egypt) 31-20 Defeated [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Dirrell"]Andre Dirrell[/ame] (USA) 23-18 Lost to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaydarbek_Gaydarbekov"]Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov[/ame] (Russia) 18-28
I'm impressed with what he's done so far. 18 - 0 [ 15 ko's ] in the pro's and had a great amateur career. He's tough , good defence and can whack Boxrec has him ranked at 17 in the mw's. Imo he would give quite a few ranked above him a tough night out. A definite prospect. [ check him out on You Tube ]
While the talent and the potential is obviously there, why in the hell does he deserve to be ranked that high? He only has 15 fights, and he hasn't really fought anybody good.
He's VERY good, but the B-level opposition is already running. First it was unbeaten Tarvis Simms who injured into an Allan Green fight, then Ishe Smith, who most likely logged on to our forum and logged off the Golovkin fight in 60 seconds. Too bad, because despite all the skills, Golovkin still needs the C+, B- & B-level opposition before stepping up to a world title opportunity.
Time to climb up the latter to next floor!!!!!! Golovkin's mean promoter has to spend some good bucks on a good opponent with a recognisable name and a decent reputation!!!!!:twisted:
Ratings can be pretty rubbery. Boxrec has 2 Australians Anthony Mundine and Daniel Geale ranked at 3 & 4 in the MW's. They both have very padded records. I'm sure neither one would want anything to do with Golovkin. But the critics are right. At 27 yrs Golovkin needs to step up his opposition in the near future.
