Gennady Golovkin holds the title of champion.
Gennady Golovkin . He was elevated to WBA ( Regular ) champion in the same year , and in 2011 would win the vacant IBO middleweight title by defeating Lajuan Simon . In 2014 , Golovkin was elevated to his current status of WBA ( Super ) champion and successfully defended both his titles against Daniel Geale . The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board ( TBRB ) is an all-volunteer initiative formed in October 2012 with the intention of providing professional boxing with authoritative top-ten rankings , identifying the singular world champion of every division by unbiased reasoning and common sense , and to insist on the sport 's reform . The World Boxing Council ( WBC ) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts , alongside the International Boxing Federation ( IBF ) , World Boxing Association ( WBA ) and World Boxing Organization ( WBO ) .