Golovkin won the Olympic silver medal in the middleweight division at the 2004 Games in Athens. <\/p>\n
He also held world and Asian titles as an amateur before stepping up to the professional ranks, in which he held a middleweight world title and is widely regarded as one of the fiercest competitors of his generation.<\/p>\n
Although not officially retired, he has not fought since losing the third fight of his trilogy with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in September 2022.<\/p>\n
The only blemishes on his 45-fight record are two defeats by Mexico’s Alvarez following a controversial draw in their first encounter that many believed Golovkin had won.<\/p>\n
He told the World Boxing congress his presidency would be built around four key points – putting athletes first, integrity, innovation, and financial stability and development. <\/p>\n
The IOC suspended the IBA in 2019 over governance, financial, refereeing and ethical concerns. <\/p>\n
“This is about unity,” said Golovkin, as he expanded on his blueprint for the future of boxing as an Olympic sport.<\/p>\n
“Today we take a big step forward. We must be a federation that athletes can believe in and one the Olympic family can trust.”<\/p>\n
Van der Vorst was elected in 2023 but chose to step aside and did not seek a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golovkin won the Olympic silver medal in the middleweight division at the 2004 Games in Athens. He also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}