Former world light heavyweight champion Alexander Gvozdyk believes that fighters from the post-Soviet countries are very quickly forgotten in the United States if they make even the slightest mistake. In particular, in this context, he mentioned the IBF middleweight title holder Gennady Golovkin, who lost popularity in the States after losing in a rematch with Saul Alvarez.
“All the same, we are strangers here, whatever one may say. Even all those we loved. Take Gena Golovkin, Vasyl Lomachenko, Sergey Kovalev, who here were able to break into the Olympus of popularity. But the slightest situation where they stumbled - everyone, instantly forget about them. Of course, they are remembered, but interest for them falls very fast."
"There was a moment that only Golovkin was in all the headlines, in all the media, and now I have not heard anything about him at all for three months, although, GGG is a monster. I would say that he lost controversially to Canelo,” Oleksandr Gvozdyk said in a live broadcast of BoxingTime.ua on Instagram.
