Gennady Golovkin Net Worth: Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin is a Kazakhstani professional boxer who currently holds the unified WBA, WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight titles. As of 2017, Gennady Golovkin net worth is estimated to be $6 million.
Gennady Golovkin was born on April 8, 1982 in Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union as one of four brothers to a Russian father and Korean mother. He started his amateur boxing career in 2000 and became a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program in November 2002. In 2003 he won the gold medal beating Matvey Korobov in World Amateur Boxing Championships in Bangkok. He finished his amateur career with an outstanding record of 345-5.
Golovkin signed a professional deal with Universum Box-Promotion and made his professional debut in May 2006. He won his first major world championship, WBA interim middleweight title defeating Milton Nunez in 2010. In December 2011, he defeated Lajuan Simon to win the vacant IBO Middleweight title. Golovkin is basically known for his precise and powerful punching. In 2014, he defeated Marco Antonio Rubio to win interim WBC Middleweight title. He then defeated David Lemieux in 2015 to win IBF Middleweight title.
In his professional boxing career, Gennady Golovkin has won 37 out of 37 matches; 33 by Knock Out and 4 by Unanimous decision. With a streak of 23 knockouts from 22 November 2008 to 18th March 2017, he holds the highest knockout percentage (89.8%) in middleweight championship history. He also holds the record of having never been knocked down of knocked out in a total of 387 fights in his amateur and professional career. Golovkin will now face Canelo Alvarez on September 16, 2017. It was reported that he would earn a base minimum $10 million and Alvarez will earn $12 million before any shares of the revenue are added to their purses
Golovkin is ranked as the world’s best middleweight by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and second best by the Ring. He is also ranked as the world’s second best active boxer, pound for pound, by the Ring and fifth by BoxRec.