Former world champion promises to restore trust in sport
World Boxing replaced IBA as governing body this year
The former world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is to be elected president of World Boxing and lead the sport as it heads towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Golovkin, who won Olympic silver in Athens in 2004 and went on to make the most world title defences in middleweight history, is the only presidential candidate approved by the sport’s independent vetting panel for Sunday’s election. As a result he will take charge of World Boxing, which became the governing body for amateur Olympic boxing this year.
That role used to be held by the International Boxing Association but it was banished by the International Olympic Committee in 2023 after a series of judging, corruption and governance scandals.
