Porter: Brook is getting his first loss on August 16th

By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (24-0-1, 15 KOs) expects to hand unbeaten #1 IBF Kell Brook (32-0, 22 KO’s) his first loss of his career on August 16th in their fight at the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, USA. Porter sees Brook as basically just an experienced fighter with a stand-up European style of fighting.

Porter notes that Brook likes to jab and then load up with right hand. Porter doesn’t see anything complicated about Brook, as he does the same thing over and over again against the weak opposition that he’s been matched up against during his 10-year pro career.

“It’s going to happen, I’m very confident,” Porter said to esnewsreporting.com about his belief that he’ll easily beat Brook. On August 16th that’s where he’s going to get his first loss. If I get in the ring with Kell Brook right now, I’m looking at him like he’s the little guy. I’m just going to overpower you and wear you out.”

Unless Brook changes his stiff, upright fighting style and loosen up to be more of a boxer/mover, he’s going to get taken apart by Porter in this fight. Brook has no inside game, and it’s going to be a real problem for him to try and keep Porter off of him while standing straight up the way he does with his traditional stance.

Obviously, Brook is going to try and keep Porter on the outside with his jabs so that he can pot shot him and set him up for his right hands, but Porter is going to likely walk straight through the jabs from Brook. You’re not going to keep a guy as big and as strong as Porter off of you with just jabs. That’s not going to happen.

No one is going to keep a fighter like Porter off with just a jab. Unless Brook has learned how to fight on the inside during this training camp, which I highly doubt, he’s going to get taken apart on the inside.

Of course, Brook can always try and move around the ring to evade the big power shots from Porter, but he’s not proven himself to have the kind of mobility to move. Brook is really stiff and slow on his feet, and that’s probably not going to change by the time he fights Porter.