By Dan Ambrose: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KO’s) will have the chance to test his huge punching power against EBU middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa (28-1, 21 KO’s) next month on September 1st at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York.

The fight will be televised by HBO, so the fight will give boxing fans a chance to see two of the biggest punchers in the middleweight division. Golovkin, 30, is arguably the harder puncher of the two and the bigger guy by a couple of inches. However, the southpaw Proksa punches plenty hard in own right and he could make this a very difficult fight for Golovkin if he’s able to make him miss. That’s what Proksa is good at. He’s got a crafty style of fighting and he seems to like to embarrass his opponents by getting them to miss with their big shots, and then countering them.

It’s going to be tough for him to do that against Golovkin, though, because he’ll be pressuring him all fight long, and he’ll no doubt get close enough to land his power shots to the head and body. Golovkin can hurt you no matter where he aims his shots. If he’s not able to land his shots upstairs then you can bet that Golovkin will make adjustments and start throwing shots to the body to make sure he doesn’t miss.

Proksa hasn’t had to face a puncher yet, and I doubt he’s been hit hard to the body like the way that Golovkin will be hitting him on September 1st. It’s going to be a real test for Proksa to be able to take Golovkin’s power without crumbling.

Proksa was beaten earlier this year by Kerry Hope in a big upset 12 round majority decision defeat last March. Proksa was able to quickly come back from that defeat, beating inexperienced Rudolf Vega (1-1) by a 3rd round TKO and then avenge his loss to Hope by stopping him in the 8th round.

The problem that Proksa has against Golovkin is that he doesn’t have enough experience against quality opposition to take this fight. Proksa’s opponents have been pretty awful with the exception of Sebastian Sylvester and Hope, and he doesn’t have the same kind of amateur experience that Golovkin has going for him.

Golovkin has faced the absolute best in the world while fighting in the Olympics for Kazakhstan and he enjoyed a long amateur career, beating fighters like Lucian Bute, Andy Lee, Yordanis Despaigne, Nikola Sjekloca, Matvey Korobov, Andre Dirrell and Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov. Proksa doesn’t have any wins remotely as good as those victories. As such, Proksa is going to be in way over his head against Golovkin and it might take a knockout for Prosksa to win.