Gennady Golovkin – GGG – is a Kazakh professional middleweight boxer and former IBF, WBA, IBO and WBC world champion. Golovkin was already considered an exceptional talent as an amateur, as he only lost five out of 350 amateur fights. His professional career began in Germany with the Universum boxing promotion in Hamburg. After leaving Universum, his world title came promptly. Having won 42 of 44 professional fights, 37 of them by knockout, “Triple G” is one of the best boxers in the world.
Muhammed Ali – “The Greatest of All Time”, there is no better way to describe this boxing legend. Ali will go down in the history books for his sensational boxing matches, numerous victories and countless world titles. His most legendary fights, “Rumble in the Jungle” and “Thrilla in Manila”, were watched by over a billion people around the world. Ali was not only a gifted fighter in the ring, he also made his opponents tremble verbally before the fights. Provocative sentences such as “I saw George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won” are not uncommon with Ali.
The boxer also displays this aggressive behavior in other life situations. He initially changed his birth name from Cassius Clay Jr. to Muhammad Ali in order to follow his self-chosen path as an avowed Muslim, but above all to campaign against the oppression of African-Americans in the USA by dropping his old “slave name”. This conviction repeatedly made headlines. Especially when Ali resigned from military service in 1967 with the statement “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger”. As a result, his boxing license and titles were revoked. He fought against this injustice for a long time until he was allowed back into the ring three years later. Several world titles followed before the most popular boxer of all time hung up his belt in 1981.
