The sport speaks to the culture’s deeply rooted machismo. That those fans would embrace a Kazakhstani boxer may seem unusual, but it’s less so the more you know about how boxing influences Mexican culture and vice versa. The love between Golovkin and the Mexican and Mexican American fanbase isn’t new. “And I think it is because of his style in the ring but also his character outside. “Right there, you could see they embraced him,” Loeffler says. It didn’t matter that his opponent was Mexican. “It was one of those moments that creates goosebumps,” recalls Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter.Īs Golovkin walked to the ring, fans stood on their seats. Less than three months later, Golovkin fought for the first time in Southern California in front of a largely Mexican crowd.
That was late July 2014 in Madison Square Garden. It happened, this odd connection between Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin and Mexico, almost as if by accident.Īfter crushing yet another opponent-in his fifth bout in the United States after fighting in obscurity throughout Germany-Golovkin was asked by HBO’s Max Kellerman to describe the right hand that felled his opponent and how he, despite also getting hit, stayed up while his opponent crumbled. “Max,” he answered, a sinister smirk on his face, “this is my style, like Mexican style.
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