NICE ARTICLE ON GOLOVKIN IN LATEST SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE

[Aaronide_ger]

Someone needs to upload this so we Non-US residents can see it.

[Aaronide_ger]

Someone needs to upload this so we Non-US residents can see it.

Wish I could help you, but the best I can do is the only GGG article on the Sports Illustrated website and it's not as good or as long as the article in the SI magazine. I dont even have the magazine issue myself, but read it at the gym where I work out.

Anyway, here's the link to the website article: http://www.si.com/boxing/2015/10/16/gen ... id-lemieux

Sports Illustrated mag is owned by Time Warner, which also owns HBO, so HBO's prefight show may include a lot of the same insights as the magazine article, which focuses mostly on GGG's relationship with trainer Abel Sanchez and his desire to be a star in the US. It also mentions how bleak his life in Kazakhstan was growing up and how it motivated him to move on to bigger things. It mentions how GGG was ripped off at the 2005 World Championships and robbed of a decision win over a 2nd-rate Egyptian fighter that Gennady clearly outboxed. That disputed loss was the final straw that caused him to abandon the amateur ranks in favor of going pro.

The more I think about the article, the more I recall. After several years in Germany, GGG was tired of getting shortchanged by Universum, which showed favoritism to Felix Sturm, who was the "house fighter" and was given more attention by Universum. That's what inspired GGG to seek fame & fortune in the US and Sanchez was going through similar frustrations in his career as a trainer, so the two connected at a very opportune time. GGG was basically the kind of fighter Sanchez had always wanted & Golovkin found in Sanchez the missing element that his previous trainers had lacked.

I dont remember a lot of the finer points because I was working out hard on the stationary bike as I was reading it & so my reading comprehension was not at a very high level. I hope that general outline helps & the prefight show should help fill in the blanks in my memory.

Thanks a lot mate! Appreciate you took your time to type all these to help me out, I didnt know he was robbed against that Egyptian.

Have a good day (Fight Day )

[zojo]

Someone needs to upload this so we Non-US residents can see it.

Wish I could help you, but the best I can do is the only GGG article on the Sports Illustrated website and it's not as good or as long as the article in the SI magazine. I dont even have the magazine issue myself, but read it at the gym where I work out.

Anyway, here's the link to the website article: http://www.si.com/boxing/2015/10/16/gen ... id-lemieux

Sports Illustrated mag is owned by Time Warner, which also owns HBO, so HBO's prefight show may include a lot of the same insights as the magazine article, which focuses mostly on GGG's relationship with trainer Abel Sanchez and his desire to be a star in the US. It also mentions how bleak his life in Kazakhstan was growing up and how it motivated him to move on to bigger things. It mentions how GGG was ripped off at the 2005 World Championships and robbed of a decision win over a 2nd-rate Egyptian fighter that Gennady clearly outboxed. That disputed loss was the final straw that caused him to abandon the amateur ranks in favor of going pro.

The more I think about the article, the more I recall. After several years in Germany, GGG was tired of getting shortchanged by Universum, which showed favoritism to Felix Sturm, who was the "house fighter" and was given more attention by Universum. That's what inspired GGG to seek fame & fortune in the US and Sanchez was going through similar frustrations in his career as a trainer, so the two connected at a very opportune time. GGG was basically the kind of fighter Sanchez had always wanted & Golovkin found in Sanchez the missing element that his previous trainers had lacked.

I dont remember a lot of the finer points because I was working out hard on the stationary bike as I was reading it & so my reading comprehension was not at a very high level. I hope that general outline helps & the prefight show should help fill in the blanks in my memory.