BetKing will x-ray four of the current biggest boxers in the world today ranging from the middleweight to the heavyweight as well as update you on some of their past and current records since they began their boxing career.
These set of boxers have shaped the boxing world and have earned respect from their opponents and boxing fans across the globe.
Gennadiy Golovkin:
The Kazakhstani professional boxer is a two times unified champion, having held the IBF title since 2019 and the WBA title since April 2022. He had previously held the unified WBA, WBC and IBF titles between 2014 and 2018. He is also a two-time IBO middleweight champion, in his second reign since 2019 and held multiple middleweight world championships.
With the height of 5 ft10 (178cm), Golovkin has a total of 44 fights with 42 wins (37 KnockOuts), 1 win and 1 loss. Golovkin is known for his exceptionally powerful and precise punching, balance, and methodical movement inside the ring. The Kazakhstani boxer’s 23 knockout winning streak 2008 to 2017 and he holds the highest knockout-to-win ratio (89.7%) in middleweight championship history. He has never been knocked down or otherwise stopped in a total of 394 fights, 44 as a professional and 350 as an amateur.
Golovkin is currently ranked as the world’s eighth best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec, and tenth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) in August 2022. He is also ranked as the world’s best active middleweight by BoxRec, The Ring, and TBRB, and second by ESPN.
After Canelo Álvarez vacated his WBC middleweight title in 2016, Golovkin was elevated to full champion and held three of the four major world titles in boxing. Golovkin lost all his titles, including his undefeated record, following a loss to Álvarez in 2018. He regained his IBF and IBO titles by defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko in 2019, and regained his WBA (Super) title by defeating Ryōta Murata in 2022.
Sergey Kovalev:
The Russian professional boxer has held multiple light heavyweight world championships, including the WBA (Undisputed) and IBF titles from 2014 to 2016, and the WBO title three times between 2013 and 2019. Nicknamed the “Krusher”, Kovalev is particularly known for his exceptional punching power, although he describes himself as “just a regular boxer”.
Kovalev with a height of 6 ft (183 cm) has a Boxing record of 40 Total fights, 35 Wins, 29 Wins by KO, 4 Losses, and 1 Draw. In November 2019, Kovalev was ranked as the world’s second-best light-heavyweight by The Ring magazine, third by BoxRec, and fourth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. In 2014, The Ring named him its Fighter of the Year.
Kovalev started his professional career with a first round Knock Out of Daniel Chavez at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. However, his fight against Darnell Boone in October 2010 ended in the eighth round with a loss by one point.
In his 2011 fight against Roman Simakov (Russia), Kovalev knocked down his opponent in the sixth round. The fight was stopped and Kovalev was awarded a TKO victory. Simakov was taken to the hospital, where he lapsed into a coma and died three days later.
In 2012, John David Jackson became Kovalev’s trainer. Kovalev met Darnell Boone in the ring for the second time and knocked him out in the second round; the win led him to be signed on to Main Events boxing. Kovalev faced the former World Boxing Association (WBA) light-heavyweight champion Gabriel Campillo. Kovalev took advantage of Campillo’s faltering defense and knocked him down with a left hook, one of three knockdowns in the round on 19 January 2013.
Román González:
González is the first boxer from Nicaragua to win world titles in four weight classes, having surpassed his mentor, idol, and former three times heavyweight world champion, the late Alexis Argüello.
González nicknamed “Chocolatito ” with a height of 5ft3 in (160 cm) has a Boxing record of 54 fights, 51 Wins, 41 Wins by KO and 3 Losses. He was reportedly undefeated as an amateur, amassing an 88–0 record in official amateur bouts. The highlight of his amateur career was winning the light flyweight gold medal at the 2004 Central American Championships.
He is currently ranked the world’s second best active super flyweight by The Ring magazine and was the world best active boxer, pound for pound according to Ring and ESPN from September 2015 to March 2017. He is known particularly for his aggressive pressure-fighting style.
González has held the WBA minimumweight title from 2008 to 2010; the WBA light flyweight title from 2011 to 2013; the WBC, and The Ring flyweight titles from 2014 to 2016, WBC super flyweight title from 2016 to 2017; and the WBA (Super) super flyweight title from 2020 to 2021.
Tyson Fury (“Gypsy King”):
The British professional boxer is a two-time world heavyweight champion and has held the WBC title since defeating Deontay Wilder in 2020, and The Ring magazine title from 2020 to August 2022. Fury held the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring titles after defeating Wladimir Klitschko in 2015. With his defeat of Wilder, Fury became the third heavyweight, after Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali, to hold The Ring magazine title twice, and is widely considered by media outlets to be the lineal heavyweight champion.
Fury is ranked as the world’s best active heavyweight by ESPN in August 2022. He is also ranked as the fourth best-active boxer, pound-for-pound, by ESPN, sixth by the TBRB and seventh by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Fury, who is 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) in height, has a Boxing record of 33 Total fights, 32 Wins, 23 Wins by KO, and 1 Draw.
Wladimir Klitschko’s reign as boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champion ended with a whimper, as British challenger Tyson Fury feinted and jabbed his way to a 12-round, unanimous-decision victory to earn the WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO world heavyweight titles in 2015. Fury was declared the winner by unanimous decision. This ended Klitschko’s reign of nearly 10 years, the second longest in heavyweight history.
Fury was stripped of his IBF title 10 days after the Klitschko bout as he was unable to grant a fight with the IBF’s mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, due to a rematch clause in his contract with Klitschko. Fury developed mental health issues leading to alcoholism, recreational drug use and extreme weight gain. He was also charged with anti-doping violations. In 2016, he vacated the WBA, WBO and IBO titles; The Ring stripped him of his last remaining title in early 2018.
After more than two years of inactivity, Fury challenged for the WBC heavyweight title against Wilder. Fury’s strong performance against Wilder (including recovering from a heavy knockdown in the final round) earned him Comeback of the Year from The Ring and numerous other awards. In the rematch in February 2020, Fury defeated Wilder by a technical knockout in the seventh round after a dominant performance. He knocked out Wilder again in the trilogy fight in October 2021, this time in the eleventh round.
Conclusion:
Unarguably, Tyson Fury stand shoulders high among his boxing peers in a weight category. The “Gypsy King” is one of the most unpredictable boxers in the ring and this makes it difficult for his opponents to predict his moves; this can be seen in his bouts against Wladimir Klitschko, Deontay Wilder and Dillian Whyte.
Fury turned professional at 19, and it only took him eight fights to win his first English title. He accumulated a few more titles before bringing an end to the Wladimir Klitschko era in 2015, winning WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, and Ring heavyweight titles.
Tyson Fury has an excellent jab, and he uses a few different types of jabs during his bouts and great body movements (Fluidlike) coupled with great footwork to create angles, or use a counterpunching approach. This is arguably Fury’s biggest asset inside the ring. His defense is arguably the best in the heavyweight division.
The “Gypsy King” has a Boxing Record of 33 Total fights, 32 Wins, 23 Wins by KO, and 1 Draw.
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