Galahad: Brook will give Golovkin a boxing lesson

By Boxing News - 08/30/2016 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten super bantamweight Kid Galahad been training alongside Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) and he’s seen enough of him recently to believe that he’ll give IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) his first loss of his career on September 10. Galahad thinks Brook is going give Triple G a boxing lesson inside the ring in their fight on HBO and Sky Box Office pay-per-view at the O2 Arena in London, England.

Galahad says that Brook has fought higher quality opposition than Golovkin before. Galahad doesn’t say who that it is, but it would seem that he’s referring to the twice beaten Shawn Porter. Just how Porter could be seen as a better fighter than Golovkin when he’s been beaten twice is unknown. Just getting beaten twice would seem to indicate that Porter is not better than Golovkin.

“Kell needed a new challenge like this to get the best out of him. He has boxed opponents at a higher level than Golovkin and is more rounded in every way,” said Galahad to the Sheffield Star. “I honestly think he will give Golovkin a boxing lesson and beat him in style.”

Oh my, Galahad seems to have his mind made up that Brook is a better fighter than Triple G. I just hope he’s not too let down when/if that fails to happen on September 10. When you get someone that believes as much as Galahad seems to believe in Brook, it could be a real shock to the mind if that fails to happen. I still don’t know who on earth Brook has fought that was “at a higher level than Golovkin in every way” like Galahad talks about. Is it the twice beaten Porter, or could it be Matthew Hatton, Jo Jo Dan, Kevin Bizier, Alvaro Robles, Carson Jones or Frankie Gavin. Those are a fine bunch of former Brook opponents, aren’t they? I just don’t know which of them I would put above Golovkin in the talent department, but I guess Galahad has one of these guys as being better than Golovkin.

The thing is when you look at Brook’s fighting ability, past fights, and with his recent huge gain of weight, you can only come to one conclusion about what’s going to happen to him when he gets inside the ring with Golovkin. It’s going to be a slaughter. Brook doesn’t have the talent, he doesn’t have the experience and he’s got all that weight that he put on recently that will be weighing him down like an anchor. Brook have bulked up to near 180s, and the weight is just too much and too soon. It would have been much smarter for Brook to put on just a little bit more weight rather than adding a ton of useless weight that won’t help him.

I do think the weight that Brook has put on will help him a little bit. It might help him with his wrestling ability in the clinch if he decides to clinch Golovkin over 10 times per round like he did against Porter in 2014.

“People who say that don’t know Kell like we do,” said Galahad. “They don’t realize the size of him. He’s not your normal welterweight. There are plenty of people who have moved up – look at Manny Pacquiao.”

It’s definitely true that Brook is a very heavy fighter for a welterweight, and it’s also true that Pacquiao found success after moving up in weight to the welterweight division back in 2008. However, Pacquiao never had to fight a welterweight with one-punch power, did he? The 147lb division hasn’t a one-punch knockout artist since Tommy Hearns left it many years ago.

Brook is moving up to the middleweight division to fight the best KO artist in that weight class in Golovkin. The weight isn’t the real problem for the 30-year-old Brook. Brook obviously been a middleweight for some time, which has chosen to force himself to melt down to 147 to get an advantage over the lighter opponents in the welterweight division rather than fighting guys his own size at middleweight.

With that said, Brook is not used to getting hit by middleweights, and it’s going to be a brutal shock to his system when he gets inside the ring with Golovkin on September 10. Look at who Brook is sparring with. He’s sparring with junior middleweight Liam Williams. That guy isn’t as big or as powerful as Golovkin. As such, Brook has no idea what he’s getting himself into for this fight with GGG, because he hasn’t had the adequate preparation to get him ready for this fight. Brook is going to get in the ring with Golovkin and mostly likely get massacred immediately. Golovkin is now even saying that Brook does not stand a chance of beating him if he stands in front of him Golovkin further says if Brook runs, he’ll only delay the inevitable.

“He is training as hard as he always does but he is fresher, sharper and stronger,” said Galahad about Brook. “He looks really solid and happier. Cutting down on food affects you; you get grumpy and are always hungry but now he’s getting along nicely.”

It’s not about Brook being fresher, stronger and happier. He’s facing a more talented fighter than himself with far superior punching power. Galahad will be shocked, I imagine in watching Golovkin dismantle Brook in this fight on September 10, but he needn’t be. Brook never showed that he was the best welterweight at 147, and his best win of his career against Porter was questionable due to the fight being very close. Brook held all night long in a dreadful display of boxing.

I can’t imagine someone like Golovkin ever reducing himself to the level where he had to use a gimmick of holding nonstop to try and beat a superior fighter. That just doesn’t seem like something that is in Golovkin’s makeup as a fighter. He believes in making his fights a “drama show” to entertain the fans to produce knockouts and excitement.

Golovkin would never be satisfied with himself to turn the fight into a clinch-filled boring spectacle just so that he could maybe squeak out a decision against a superior fighter than himself. Let’s face it, that’s what Brook did against Porter. Go back and watch the fight and look at how frequently Brook held Porter in every round. It was just so, so sad to watch.