Johnathon Banks: record, next fight and profile →
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Just like that, it’s been a decade at the top for Gennady Golovkin. The middleweight division’s Kazakh-born boogeyman fought for his first title belt – a second-tier WBA trinket – exactly 10 years ago this Wednesday, and he isn’t quite ready to cede his status. In fact, now 38, he’ll celebrate the supremacy milestone Friday by returning to...
By Tris Dixon - Boxing is a sport of adversity. Fighters often come from poverty, trauma or both. They make sacrifices and experience physical hardship, whether it’s making weight, pushing through the limits in training or having to grit their teeth and remain stoic after being punched terrifically hard in the face. That is only the day to day adversity and...
Johnathon Banks is one of the fighters who not only shined in the ring as a fighter, winning the IBO world title at cruiserweight prior to a run at heavyweight, but also as a trainer in the corner, guiding the likes of former unified world champion Wladimir Klitschko and now heads up a stable of fighters that includes IBF and IBO world middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin and former WBC world champion Badou Jack.
Trainer Johnathon Banks recently began working with former two division world champion Badou Jack. Jack has been without a win since 2017. He fought to a draw with Adonis Stevenson in 2018, and then lost decisions to Marcus Browne and Jean Pascal in 2019.
Johnathon Banks, the head trainer for IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin, wants his boxer to get a trilogy crack for a third meeting with Mexican star Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in September 2017.
Johnathon Banks, who at the time was the head trainer for Wladimir Klitschko, reflected back to April 29, 2017 - when his boxer collided with Anthony Joshua in a heavyweight unification, before a crowd of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London.
For all of the people clamoring for a third fight between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Gennadiy ‘GGG’ Golovkin, there’s at least one person directly involved who doesn’t need to see it next. Johnathon Banks, a former cruiserweight contender and the current head trainer to Golovkin revealed he is not on board with such a fight should it have to be his first of 2020.
Johnathon Banks, who took over the training duties of former heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko after Emanuel Steward passed away in 2012, has denied a recent claim that Deontay Wilder was knocked out during a sparring session with Klitschko.
Abel Sanchez, the former longtime trainer of IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin, is not surprised that his former student is not exactly showing any new wrinkles in his game. Earlier this year, Sanchez and Golovkin had a tense parting of ways - after being unable to agree to a new financial agreement. Sanchez claimed that he was offered a significant cut in pay.
NEW YORK – Even Gennadiy Golovkin’s trainer thinks Sergiy Derevyanchenko deserved better than he fared on the three scorecards Saturday night. Johnathon Banks told DAZN’s Claudia Trejos following Golovkin’s victory that he was surprised the three judges agreed Golovkin won their fantastic fight. When Michael Buffer began announcing the scores at Madison Square Garden, Banks expected to hear that it was a split decision.