By Allan Fox: Kell Brook won’t want to move back down to fight his IBF mandatory challenger Errol Spence Jr. after he faces IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin on September 10, according to trainer Kenny Porter, the father of former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter. Kenny suspects that Brook will lose the fight to Golovkin, and then he won’t want to move back down to 147 to take another tough fight against Spence.
Shawn Porter feels that Brook will give Golovkin a lot of problems with his size and possibly his holding in their fight. Shawn thinks Brook could stay at 160 depending on how he does against Triple G. He might move back down to 147 if he loses the fight to Golovkin, however.
When asked by Fighthype.com whether Brook will fight Errol Spence Jr. after the Golovkin fight, Kenny Porter said, “No, Kell’s got a lot on his plate right now, and I think that might be more than he can handle. Obviously, from a business stand point, that’s the reason why he made the fight.”
Spence would be a really hard opponent for Brook to take at any point in his career, but especially after his match against Golovkin.
It’s going to be a tough fight for Brook, because the main things that he likes to do in his fights, slugging, holding and throwing pot shots, are things that Golovkin will be well prepared for. There won’t be any trick stuff that Brook can spring on Golovkin that will have him confused like there was in the Shawn Porter fight.
Before the Porter fight, Brook wasn’t known for his excessive clinching, but he used that tool against Porter and the referee let him get away with it all night long without taking points off. Golovkin and his trainer Abel Sanchez are aware of Brook’s holding tactics, so they’re going to be ready to deal with that if he tries to go back to the same playbook that he used against Porter. Things like movement, Golovkin has seen before. Likewise, pot shots and jabbing aren’t new to Golovkin either. He’s seen those things.
In speaking about his son Shawn Porter’s 2014 fight against Brook, Kelly said, “He [Brook] was the bigger guy on fight night. He showed up weighing 175 pounds, and that helped out with his holding. He’s got a really tough fight ahead of him [against Golovkin. If he’s able to control Triple G with his clinches and holds without it becoming a foul. It was a foul in our fight. Without it getting to the point where they take points away from him, he may be able to survive a little while longer. But I think after the fights over, he definitely won’t want to fight Errol. So I’m sure he’ll vacate,” said Kenny Porter.
It’s going to be really tough for Brook to handle Golovkin, because he doesn’t do anything better than him. Golovkin’s power is superior, as is his jab, body punching and cutting off the ring. The only thing that Brook really do in this fight is to try and punch with Golovkin and hope that he can beat him at his own game. If he elects to hold, it’ll be negated like Martin Murray’s holding was negated by Golovkin last year.
When asked if Brook has a chance of beating Golovkin, Kenny said, “No, I don’t give him a real shot. No, I don’t.”
Brook does have the fans on his side for this fight against GGG, because it’s going to be taking place in the UK, but that probably will work against Brook. If the crowd gets Brook motivated, he’s going to want to punch with Golovkin, and once he does that, the fight will go down the drain for him. He can’t beat him by punching.
There’s really no tricks that Brook can use in this fight that will catch Golovkin by surprise, because there’s only a small variety of spoiling tactics available to any one fighter. Fighting might be the only thing that Brook can really do against Golovkin if he can’t hold him all night long to have the match go 12 rounds. That would be a bad career move on Brook’s part for him to hold nonstop because it will lead to a lot of his British boxing fans not wanting to pay to see him fight in the future. When you’re trying to become a PPV star in your own country, you don’t want to be seen holding all night long.