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This is an interesting story of how Golovkin wanted to play soccer, but ended up boxing.
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And when I wasn’t at home, I’d be outside playing soccer. Soccer was my favorite thing to do. I was always playing soccer. I went to this sports camp where all day we would play soccer.

Except one day, our coach said, “O.K., maybe today we try boxing.”

I was just a tiny kid. I never boxed in a ring like that before. I had gloves at home, almost every kid did. Boxing is a popular sport Kazakhstan, so boys would always mess around. I think boys everywhere always are fighting like that. I wanted to play soccer though. I loved soccer. But Sergey and Vadim, they told me I needed to try different things to be active. It’d be good for my body to learn different sports, they said. And they knew boxing and thought it would be good for me, too.

“Just try boxing,” they told me. “You need different activities.”

I wasn’t going to say no to them. I just nodded.



So they told me they were going to take me to the boxing club the next day.

And when we went, I didn’t like it. I didn’t like boxing. Who wants to get hit in the face? It’s a dangerous sport and I liked playing on my soccer teams. But, it came easy to me. I got it. I understood it. And I was very, very good. Right away. I remember just knowing as soon as I was in the ring, what I needed to do. I remember sparring for the first time. There were a lot of tough people there, but I wasn’t scared. I was tough, too. So, I stayed in the boxing club.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/gennady-golovkin-boxing-canelo-alvarez/