“That's a very high position in Kazakhstan – he's not only the head of Olympic boxing in the country, he’s the head of every sport of the national Olympic team in Kazakhstan. So, that’s a full-time job for him.”
“He was so dominant,” he said. “There were no chinks in his armor, whether it was him being able to take a punch, whether it was him being able to deliver a punch. When I first met Triple G, [trainer] Abel [Sanchez] said he had never felt anyone punch as hard on the pads, and Abel’s had a long list of world champions. And that came to fruition with his one-punch knockout power, whether that was with a body shot against Matthew Macklin or at Madison Square Garden against Daniel Geale.
“It was the first time I saw that: being hit flush on the face on the chin, and then a split-second later demolishing Geale with one punch.”
“I’ve worked with a number of world champions and I've never had such a hard time getting somebody to challenge a champion. He had multiple world titles. You have an opportunity to fight for the championship. And promoters would actually turn it down,” he said.
“There were so many times that the challengers were making the same amount of money as the champion, which was unheard of at the time. But we had to overpay them, just to get them in the ring with Gennady. But it was such a fun ride. The Mexican fans took to his style, he really became one of those universally loved champions where they appreciated his style in the ring. They appreciated his humbleness and his character outside the ring. It was great. It was a great ride with Triple G.”
“There was no point,” Loeffler said. “He had accomplished so much in his career. He had so many title defenses around the world: selling out the O2 Arena in London [against Kell Brook in 2016], fighting Ryoto Murata and selling out the Saitama Arena [in 2022], that special night against Martin Murray in Monaco [in 2015] when we had Prince Albert and Princess Charlene ringside. There are just so many great memories with Triple G, and it just seems like he feels he’s accomplished everything he wanted to in boxing.”
If Golovkin has indeed made a decision not to return to the ring, Loeffler doubts he’ll issue any kind of formal announcement.
“It seems like he’s just going to get on with his life,” he said. “It’s a big position that he’s been appointed to in Kazakhstan. So, I believe he’ll just get on with his career. Staying involved with sport, but not actively in the ring.”
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Good for GGG. He had a tough road to get very good fights and he was so dominant. Fighters like Sturm, Quillin, Martinez, JCCJr, BJS, Cotto and even Canelo avoided GGG, when Canelo choosed to fight Khan, Liam and JCCJr and then he dropped his wbc mw title. lol
I'm very glad that GGG succeeded to make enough money to be set for life. He fully deserves his new job as the president of the Kazakh National Olympic Committee.
GGG's best wins: Jacobs, Canelo I (yeah realistically its a clear win for G), Chenko (close win, maybe a MD for G, a rematch would've been fair), Murata, Lemi.
Lets not forget that GGG got these top fights after 32-33 y/o and Jacobs, Chenko and especially Canelo were much younger fighters than GGG.
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