FILE PHOTO: Sep 15, 2018; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Gennady Golovkin enters the arena to face Canelo Alvarez (not pictured) in the middleweight world championship boxing match at T-Mobile Arena. Alvarez won via majority decision. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo
(Reuters) - Former-middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin will rely on his power of persuasion and not his feared fists to convince Kazakhstan's boxing federation that World Boxing is the best hope to keep the sport on the Olympic programme.
Recently appointed president of Kazakhstan’s National Olympic Committee, the political ring may be an unfamiliar one for Golovkin but with boxing's future as an Olympic sport on the ropes, he is viewing the fight as one of the most important of his career.
