Boxing fate hangs on Golovkin's fist WB Olympic Committee chairman appointed
Boxing fate hangs on Golovkin's fist WB Olympic Committee chairman appointed
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Legendary boxer Gennady Golovkin (42, Kazakhstan), who was the unified middleweight champion of the four major boxing organizations, has taken on a position that will determine the fate of boxing.
Major overseas media outlets, including the Associated Press, reported on the 26th (local time) that Golovkin had been appointed as the chairman of the World Boxing (WB) Olympic Committee, an international organization that aims to maintain boxing as an official Olympic sport.
Golovkin served as the 'face' of the World Boxing Federation, communicating closely with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ensure boxing remains an Olympic sport.
"It is important to keep boxing as an Olympic sport. This will be my top priority," Golovkin said in a statement, adding that he would "work closely with the IOC on the Olympic values of honesty, fairness and transparency."
Golovkin, a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been the professional boxing middleweight champion for a long time with a record of 42 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss since turning professional.
Golovkin is also of Korean descent as his mother is of mixed 추천 Korean and Russian descent.
After retiring from the sport last year, he began his life as an administrator as the Chairman of the Kazakh National Olympic Committee.
The International Boxing Federation (IBA), which had been in charge of Olympic boxing until the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was notified by the IOC that it would be excluded from the Olympics due to biased judging and opaque finances.
The IOC created a separate temporary organization to directly operate boxing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Additionally, it has been announced that boxing will be excluded from the official sports category at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics if an international organization to replace the IBA is not established by 2025.
The World Bank, which was established in April of last year in opposition to the IBA and led by the US, UK, etc., has 44 member countries to date.
The IOC has consistently made statements supporting the WB, but has yet to officially recognize it as an Olympic sports body.
Our country also withdrew from the IBA and joined the WB this year, and Kazakhstan also announced its intention to join after Golovkin was appointed as the chairman of the WB Olympic Committee.