Zhan Kossobutskiy’s spiteful KO streak sees Kazakh heavyweight compared to Gennadiy Golovkin | Boxing News

Zhan Kossobutskiy is in comparison to Gennadiy Golovkin due to his spiteful knockout streak and has floored ‘world champions’ in sparring, suggests supervisor Ismael Özen-Otto.

The Kazakh heavyweight has shown early signs that he could emulate the damaging achievements of fellow countryman Golovkin, obtaining stopped 16 of 17 opponents in his unbeaten career.

But Kossobutskiy’s crew believe that his pursuit of a earth championship combat is getting deliberately stalled by contenders who are unwilling to possibility their title ambitions versus the weighty-handed southpaw.

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Kossobutskiy’s group are guiding him in the direction of a environment heavyweight title

“Practically no one desires to box against him,” his supervisor Ozen-Otto informed Sky Athletics.

“Rarely anyone dares even to spar with Zhan both.”

Asked about a long term entire world title shot,” Ozen-Otto reported: “He’s completely ready!

“We have to climb up the rankings a bit much more and wait around for our probability, but he is prepared.”

Golovkin’s former marketing workforce are now guiding Kossobutskiy, who would like to increase his popularity with a career-defining clash.

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Gennadiy Golovkin faces Ryota Mura in a world title unification clash this month

“Golovkin manufactured fantastic heritage,” reported Ozen-Otto. “As a Kazakh but also as a previous Universum boxer, the link is of class made.

“The large variation is that Golovkin was a lighter bodyweight boxer, when Zhan is boxing as a heavyweight in the Champions League.

“Zhan can do a whole lot more. He just has to compete towards more substantial and far better boxers to prove himself and to make his have title even larger.”

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The Kazakh heavyweight included another stoppage to his history this thirty day period

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