Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 96
- Longevity
- 84
- Honours
- 90
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Form index per season
| Season | Form index per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 45 | |
| 2007 | 52 | |
| 2008 | 58 | |
| 2009 | 65 | |
| 2010 | 72 | |
| 2011 | 78 | |
| 2012 | 85 | |
| 2013 | 91 | |
| 2014 | 98 | |
| 2015 | 91 | |
| 2016 | 84 | |
| 2017 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 70 | |
| 2019 | 63 | |
| 2020 | 56 | |
| 2021 | 49 | |
| 2022 | 42 | |
| 2023 | 35 |
Data sources
- International Boxing Hall of Fame
- BoxRec records
- World sanctioning body archives
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Gennady Golovkin ranks #12 in Boxing
Gennady Golovkin ranks 12th among Boxing athletes on GOAT Rank and 182nd of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 90.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 96, Longevity 84, Honours 90, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Boxing reference universe of 231 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2006–2023 with 18 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2014, which sets the Peak component at 96. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 96 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes middleweight title defences 20, professional wins 42, knockouts 37, olympic silver medals 1.
Immediately ahead sits Floyd Mayweather Jr. on 90.7, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Mary Kom on 90.5. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Gennady Golovkin GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Golovkin stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Boxing cohort.
- Peak96/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2014. Scored 96/100.
- Longevity84/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 17 years of competition and 18 recorded seasons. Scored 84/100.
- Honours90/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 90/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Golovkin comparisons
Gennady Golovkin — frequently asked
- Is Gennady Golovkin the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Gennady Golovkin ranks 12th in Boxing with a GOAT Score of 90.6, behind Sugar Ray Robinson on 94.3.
- What is Gennady Golovkin's GOAT Score?
- 90.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 96 (20%), Longevity 84 (20%), Honours 90 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Gennady Golovkin rank all time?
- 182nd of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 12th within Boxing.
- Gennady Golovkin vs Floyd Mayweather Jr.: who ranks higher?
- Floyd Mayweather Jr., on 90.7 against Gennady Golovkin's 90.6 — a margin of 0.1 points.