LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gennady Golovkin won’t really get to see his son grow up this year. He’s spending most of his life in a high-altitude gym in California, a continent away from his young family in Stuttgart, Germany.
The WBA middleweight champion aims to fight five times in 2013, which turns his life into a cycle of monotonous training punctuated by electric ring performances.
Golovkin (26-0, 23 KOs) thinks his heavy schedule will be worth all the work if he keeps moving forward in his quest to join the world’s best pound-for-pound fighters.
Golovkin takes the biggest step yet in his march on Saturday when he faces Matthew Macklin (29-4, 20 KOs), a respected veteran middleweight, at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in eastern Connecticut.
