{"id":737261,"date":"2026-06-15T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:16:10","slug":"gennady-golovkin-among-2026-international-boxing-hall-of-fame-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737261\/","title":{"rendered":"Gennady Golovkin Among 2026 International Boxing Hall of Fame Inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gennady Golovkin was among those inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday, joining fellow boxers Antonio Tarver, Nigel Benn, Naoko Fujioka, Jackie Nava and Jimmy Clabby; cut men Russ Anber and Jimmy Glenn; referee Frank Cappuccino; Dr. Edwin &#8220;Flip&#8221; Homansky; journalist Kevin Iole and the late broadcaster Alex Wallau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I have a great time with these people, a great time with my boxing family because, like 35 years I stayed in boxing, and this is my life,&#8221; Golovkin said during the ceremony, per the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49064935\/international-boxing-hall-fame-welcomes-golovkin-tarver-benn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Golovkin, 44, was 42-2-1 in his career (37 knockouts), making 20 consecutive title defenses at middleweight before Canelo \u00c1lvarez ended his reign. \u00c1lvarez was the only man to ever beat him, doing so twice (with one draw in the trilogy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gennady Golovkin was among those inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday, joining fellow boxers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-737261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}