Gennadiy Golovkin, the ability puncher who made a record-tying 20 consecutive middleweight title defenses, was elected to the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame on Thursday.
Former champions Antonio Tarver and Nigel Benn are the opposite headline names within the class that shall be enshrined within the museum in Canastota, New York. The ceremony is scheduled for June 14, 2026.
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Golovkin was elected in his first yr on the poll in voting by members of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America and a panel of worldwide boxing historians.
The Kazakhstan native went 42-2-1 with 37 KOs. After incomes his first title in 2010 in his nineteenth combat, he remained champion at 160 kilos till Canelo Alvarez edged him in 2018 of their second bout. The 20 consecutive defenses tied the division file set by Corridor of Famer Bernard Hopkins.
“That is the largest honor in boxing and the final piece of the puzzle in my profession. I am proud to have a legacy in boxing,” Golovkin mentioned after being knowledgeable of his induction by the Corridor.
Triple G fought to a draw with Alvarez of their first matchup and misplaced to him in a problem for the tremendous middleweight title in his closing combat in 2022 after regaining the middleweight crown.
A silver medalist within the 2004 Olympics, Golovkin was elected final month as president of World Boxing, the group aiming to run the Olympic tournaments on the 2028 Los Angeles Video games.
Tarver (31-6-1, 22 KOs) had a number of title reigns at mild heavyweight, one coming after he knocked out Roy Jones Jr. within the second spherical of their 2004 combat. He received two of his three matchups with Jones, who had lengthy been thought-about the highest fighter in boxing. Tarver, the sunshine heavyweight bronze medalist within the 1996 Olympics, additionally performed heavyweight champion Mason Dixon in “Rocky Balboa.”
Benn received titles at middleweight and tremendous middleweight, holding the latter belt for 4 years, and went 42-5-1 with 35 KOs. The British fighter’s son, Conor, lately beat Chris Eubank Jr. after their fathers fought twice within the Nineteen Nineties, with the elder Eubank incomes a win and a draw towards Nigel Benn.
Jimmy Clabby, who racked up an 86-21-23 file with 46 KOs earlier than retiring in 1923, and girls’s boxers Naoko Fujioka and Jackie Nava had been additionally elected. Fujioka was Japan’s first five-division champion and went 19-3-1 with 7 KOs. Nava received titles at bantamweight and tremendous bantamweight in consecutive fights in 2005 to focus on her 40-4-4 profession with 16 KOs.
Additionally set to be enshrined are trainers and cutmen Russ Anber and Jimmy Glenn, referee Frank Cappuccino and Dr. Edwin “Flip” Homansky, who turned simply the second doctor to be inducted. The primary is his spouse, Dr. Margaret Goodman.
Journalist Kevin Iole and late broadcaster Alex Wallau had been inducted from the Observer class.