SPORTS ROUNDUP 16: GGG HAS FOUGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 2004
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 24 Aug 2018
Gennady Golovkin is currently ranked as the world's number one boxer pound for pound by The Ring, number two by ESPN, number three by the Boxing Writers Association of America, and number four by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB).
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Golovkin has fought in the Philippines. He won the middleweight gold medal in the 22nd edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships held from January 11 to January 18, 2004 in Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa. The tournament served as a qualification event for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Golovkin defeated Filipino Christopher Camat in the finals.
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GGG has a career record of 38 wins, 34 by KOs, no loss, and a split draw with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on September 16, 2017 at the T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada, wjere he retained his WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight titles.
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Golovkin will attempt to break Bernard Hopkins? record of consecutive middleweight title defenses when he faces Alvarez. Hopkins made 20 straight defenses of the IBF middleweight belt from 1996-2005. GGG has defended the WBA middleweight title 20 straight times since winning the interim version of the title belt in August 2010.
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Alvarez is currently ranked as the world's number one boxer pound for pound by BoxRec, and number four by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America.
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Canelo has 49 win, 34 by KOs, one loss and 2 draws. He was The Ring's No. 1 ranked light middleweight and the unified WBC/WBA "regular" champion when he fought The Ring's No. 1 pound for pound fighter, WBA super welterweight champion and WBC/The Ring magazine welterweightchampion Floyd Mayweather Jr., on September 14, 2013.
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Judge C. J. Ross saw the fight 114?114, a draw. Judge Dave Moretti scored it 116?112, and Craig Metcalfe had it 117?111. Compubox stats showed Mayweather landed 232 of 505 punches for 46%, while Alvarez connected on 117 of 526 punches for 22%.
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Asian Games 2018 Medal Standings:
Country-Gold-Silver-Bronze-Total
1. China 58-40-21-119
2. Japan 26-29-33-88
3. South Korea 18-21-27-66
4. Iran 10-11-8-29
5. Indonesia 9-7-11-27
6. Thailand 6-4-18-28
7. North Korea 6-2-5-13
8. Chinese Taipei 5-6-11-22
9. India 5-4-12-21
10. Uzbekistan 4-9-7-20
11. Mongolia 3-2-4-9
12. Kazakhstan 2-6-19-27
13. Singapore 2-1-6-9
14. Vietnam 1-5-7-13
15. Hong Kong 1-4-11-16
16. Malaysia 1-3-1-5
17. Lebanon 1-1-2-4
18. Macau 1-1-0-2
19. Philippines 1-0-5-6
20.Jordan 1-0-3-4
21. Kyrgyzstan 0-4-5-9
22. Turkmenistan 0-1-1-2
23. Myanmar 0-0-2-2
24. Afghanistan 0-0-1-1
25. Pakistan 0-0-1-1
26. Qatar 0-0-1-1
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We have several heartbreaks against South Korea in Asian Games basketball. In the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, the Philippine team failed to face China for the gold medal game when a controversial charging foul was called against Allan Caidic, which resulted in a win for Korea. In the 2002 Busan Asian Games, Lee Sang Min sank his only 3-point shot in the dying seconds of the game that gave Korea the victory in the intensely fought semifinal game preventing the Philippines to enter the finals.
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The Asian Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Starting the1982 Games they have been managed by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), after the Asian Games Federation disbanded. The Games are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are considered as the second largest multi-sporting event after the Olympic Games.
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