Mayweather who?
'Pacman' who?
If you don't know the name Gennady Golovkin by now, you can't call yourself a real boxing fan.
And if that's the case, you need to pull up some 'YouTube' clips of 'Triple G' going through all comers like a buzzsaw.
As we wait to see if Golovkin will become a household name, here are 10 things you might not know about the current WBA and IBO middleweight champion.
1.) He was born April 8th, 1982 (31)
2.) Made his professional debut May 2006
3.) Was the 2013 'Ring Magazine Fighter Of The Year'.
4.) Silver medalist from the 2004 Olympics in Athens
5.) In December 2010, he made his first successful WBA title defense by defeating Colombia's Nilson Julio Tapia via KO
6.) Lives in Germany when not training
7.) Born in Kazakhstan
8.) He and his wife Alina have a son named Vadim
9.) Golovkin can speak four languages; Kazakh, German, Russian and English
10.) His first professional fight was versus Gabor Balogh
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