World middleweight king Gennady Golovkin picked up three awards at the annual WBC convention in Hollywood, the most prestigious possibly being the distinction of being recognised by The Guinness Book of Records as having THE highest KO percentage in the history of middleweight world championship boxing.
GGG, who fought just twice this year, also picked up two WBC awards – one for Event of The Year, for his dominant stoppage victory over Kell Brook in September, the other, a special award, for being Most Dominant Boxer. The place he now occupies in the prestigious Guinness Book of Records arguably made GGG feel most proud though.
With a record of 36-0(33) Golovkin has tallied a KO win percentage of 91.67% – achieved between May 2006 to September of 2016. Flanked by former greats such as Marvelous Marvin Hagler (arguably the greatest middleweight champion in history) and Vitali Klitschko, Golovkin said it was a real honour being “part of [the] WBC family.”
Fans are eager to see Golovkin back in action and scoring more KO’s. Recently, his trainer Abel Sanchez said it is his hope that his fighter boxes four times in 2017 and as unrealistic as that might be, fans would sure welcome that high level of activity. But do the other middleweights, such as Danny Jacobs (next in line, the fight set to go to purse bids soon) and Billy Joe Saunders (who, with the WBO belt, holds the only middleweight belt GGG does not have his hands on) really want to face him in the ring?
Fans hope so, as do they continue to live in hope that GGG and Saul Canelo Alvarez will get it on next September. Golovkin hasn’t had anything approaching a bad year here in 2016, but with just two wins, it hasn’t been as great a year as it could have been. If Golovkin can get the fights he wants, next year could be a much greater one for him.