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Golovkin is known as a powerful and technical puncher, winning most of his fights ahead of schedule. He won 23 consecutive knockout victories over 9 years from November 22, 2008 to March 18, 2017. Repeated Bernard Hopkins ' record for the number of world Middleweight title defenses, holding 20 successful fights.
In September 2018, before Gennady Golovkin's fight with Alvarez, a resident of Astana Bauyrzhan Baktygereev gave a silicone statue of a boxer made with his own hands to the Museum of the sports and recreation complex of Karaganda. Her height was 1.79 m.
Golovkin's father is a miner by profession, his mother worked as an assistant in a chemical laboratory. Two of Golovkin's three brothers served in the army and died in unclear circumstances when the future world champion was still a teenager. Gennady Golovkin started Boxing at the insistence of his older brothers, who gave him a choice: either Boxing or some other sport. The third brother-Maxim, who was born just 15 minutes later than Gennady, was also engaged in Boxing, and is currently an honored coach of Kazakhstan in Boxing. The brothers competed in the same weight class, but never fought each other. If they had a fight, one was always removed from the competition. So Maxim left the sport in favor of his brother before qualifying for the 2004 Olympics. He is now working in the team of Gennady and helps the champion in preparation for the battles