By Dan Ambrose: EBU middleweight champion Grzegorz Proksa (28-1, 21 KO’s) is going to find out the hard way what it’s like to be on the receiving end of one of Gennady Golovkin’s big right hand power shots when they face off on September 1st in an HBO televised fight at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, New York.

Up until now, the smallish 5’8′ Proksa’s biggest tests of his career have come against Kerry Hope and Sebastian Sylvester, neither of which are anywhere close to being as powerful or as good as Golovkin. Proksa floundered under the power of Hope in their first fight earlier this year in March, losing a 12 round decision.

Proksa looked uncomfortable with the steady diet of right hands that Hope was feeding him in that fight. It looked like Proksa only had one plan of winning that fight by trying to take him out with big pot shots.

When Hope didn’t go anywhere, Proksa looked lost at what to do. He literally had no plan B and ended up getting schooled in that fight. To his credit, Proksa came back in the 2nd fight and was able to stun and then stop the light hitting Hope. However, Hope already exposed Proksa in their first fight, creating the blueprint in how to beat him by putting a lot of pressure on him.

Golovkin may not need to hit Proksa too many times to beat him, though. With Golovkin’s power he can take Proksa out with a single shot at any time. Proksa will make it easy for him by fighting with his guard down like he usually does and that will give Golovkin all the chances he needs to land one of his big right hands right on Proksa’s jaw to get him out of there.

It’s still too early for Proksa to be fighting a guy like Golovkin. The normal procedure is for a fighter to work his way into a title shot against a fighter like Golovkin. But what Proksa has done is skip the preliminary fights against the likes of Peter Quillin, Martin Murray, Matthew Macklin, Sebastian Zbik, Marco Antonio Rubio and Andy Lee and go straight to the top.

It’s never good when you do that because the fighters don’t get to get a feel for what it’s like to fight someone in the intermediate level so that they can find out where they’re at. Watching Proksa struggle against Hope at the European level, I don’t see him having the talent to hang with Golovkin for long.