Golovkin to run for World Boxing presidency
Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin will run as a candidate in the election for President of World Boxing, the former middleweight world champion said in a statement on Friday.
Former world champion Jean Pascal gets real on a Gennadiy Golovkin comeback, telling https://t.co/YweEjW35c4 that GGG is a legend, but "four years off at that level is huge."
— World Boxing News (@WorldBoxingNews) October 24, 2025
His view: Any return is now strictly for the money, not the legacy.
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Golovkin, once considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world and winner of a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, was appointed president of Kazakhstan’s National Olympic Committee in 2024.
He will run against Mariolis Charilaos, who was President of the Hellenic Boxing Federation from 2021 to 2025.
Current World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst said in September that he would not seek re-election, citing the relentless demands of leading the breakaway organisation and years of global travel as his reasons for stepping down.
On this day in 2019, Gennady Golovkin became middleweight world champion for the second time with a unanimous decision victory over Sergiy Derevyanchenko to claim the vacant IBF title at Madison Square Garden 👑 pic.twitter.com/zLCm1hzLOq
— Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) October 5, 2025
World Boxing, established in 2023, has replaced the Russian-led International Boxing Association as the sport’s global governing body after the IBA was stripped of recognition.
The new organisation faces the task of safeguarding boxing’s Olympic future following the 2024 Paris Games.
"Our mission for 2026 is clear: to achieve full IOC recognition and to guarantee our place in Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032," Golovkin said in a statement.
The 43-year-old, who retired from the ring three years ago, had a record of 345 wins from 350 fights as an amateur boxer before winning multiple middleweight world titles.
The vote for a new President will take place on November 23 during the World Boxing Congress in Rome, Italy.
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