Gennady Golovkin is a fencer.
Gennady Golovkin . As of May 2017 , he is ranked as the world 's best middleweight by BoxRec and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board , and second best by The Ring . Golovkin won his first major world championship , the WBA interim middleweight title , by defeating Milton Núñez in 2010 . In his amateur career , Golovkin won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 2003 World Championships .