Former world champion Gennady Golovkin is taking a leading role in World Boxing, the group aiming to keep the sport on the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. World Boxing said on Thursday that Golovkin would chair an “Olympic commission” tasked with persuading the International Olympic Committee that the

World Boxing has appointed former-middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin as the chair of its new Olympic Commission. His role includes managing relations with the IOC and working towards the inclusion of boxing in the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

He was once considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world and won a silver at the 2004 Olympics. Read more at straitstimes.com.