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Birth Name: Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin
Place of Birth: Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Date of Birth: 8 April, 1982
Ethnicity: Russian, one quarter Korean
Gennady Golovkin is a Kazakh professional boxer. He has held middleweight world championships, and is a two-time unified champion. He has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) (Super version), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles. He is nicknamed “GGG”/”Triple G.”
He was born in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Karagandy, Kazakhstan), to a Russian father and a mother of half Korean, and likely Russian, descent. Gennady has said, “I have Russian-style, Korean-style, I have a lot of different blood.” Gennady has lived in Stuttgart, Germany, and Big Bear, California, U.S. Gennady is married to Alina, with whom he has two children. He speaks Kazakh, Russian, German, and English.
Gennady’s maternal grandfather was named Sergey Pak. Sergey was a Korean, who grew up in Russia.
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