Golovkin vs. Brook: please not again!

By Boxing News - 07/09/2016 - Comments

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By Gerardo Granados: It was announced on Friday afternoon that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) will be making his next defense against unbeaten welterweight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10th at the O2 Arena in London, England. Brook will be moving up in weight 13 pounds to take the fight against the unbeaten Triple G.

It is hard to understand how a boxer can hide under the lame excuse of being involved in prize fighting to earn money. I mean aren’t all prize fighters looking for to put meal on their tables? A disease has spread among most of the so called boxing big names and there seem to be no cure.

Even worse, is the permissive attitude taken from members of boxing media, who once again are doing their best to justify this heinous mismatch between Golovkin and the smaller Brook. By the way, the betting odds open up to 1/7 for Golovkin to beat Brook, so it can only reflect the lack of competitiveness between a welterweight belt holder and the middle champion.

When many fight fans have not fully recovered yet from the fight last May between middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and welterweight Amir Khan, we’re now seeing the story repeats itself all over again with Golovkin fighting Brook.

Can you imagine the real true middleweight champions from the past cherry picking the most profitable opponent instead of taking real challenges to prove to be the best? To the readers who might think to bring out the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvin Hagler argument, it is better if you keep it to yourself, because, Brook is miles away from the boxing quality Leonard had. What former welterweight worl champion Leonard did in beating middleweight Hagler in 1987 has no bearing in a fight between Golovkin and Brook.

Once upon a time in America the fight fans were demanding of good quality fights and those fight fans knew when a hoax was tried to be sold as a legit title fight. Nowadays, it is like there had occurred a dumbing down of many fight fans. Some even try to defend this type of cherry picking, which might be the result of the constant indoctrination suffered from major sports media.

It is true that Golovkin is being avoided like the plague by the top fighters in the middleweight division, but it is also true that there must be a lot of hungry top ranked middleweight contenders waiting for a shot at his WBC, WBA, IBF and IBO titles. How about giving to one of them the chance to earn good money? Aren´t they also prize fighters and fight to earn a living? Are only the so called big names entitled to earn the big purses? Does Brook have enough merits to step over real middleweight contenders who have work hard and made sacrifices to get ranked?

The admirable courage that Brook showed when he accepted to take a fight against the most feared middleweight is simply eclipsed by the cowardice of many so called middleweight big names, who have avoided at all cost to fight against Golovkin.

Boxing analyst Daniel Attias said “All well and good to say Golovkin had no options at 160 but he could have challenged himself and fought at 168. Instead he picks a welter.” Can you imagine Golovkin moving up to 175 to challenge Sergey Kovalev or Adonis Stevenson? After all, he has no problem having a welter moving up. So, why wouldn’t Golovkin do the same in the near future?

At the end, it is very simple; we the fight fans have the choice of not to watch such mismatches and even less to pay. So even if this mismatch has knockout of the year potential as the Deontay Wilder vs. Chris Arreola mismatch, I will just not watch it live.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.