By Scott Gilfoid: Abel Sanchez, the trainer for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs), says he sees the blown up welterweight Kell “Special K” Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) as a “science experiment” for his fighter this Saturday night on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, England. Sanchez says that Brook is going to “brutally discover” what it’s like to be in the ring with Triple G, when he faces him this Saturday.
Brook has spent over two months bulking up to the mid-170s for this fight, and he hopes that his extra size will help him pull off an upset in this fight. Sanchez doesn’t see it as possible, and he expects it to be a brutal reality check for the 30-year-old Brook.
Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn is all up in arms about Sanchez’s description of the Golovkin-Brook fighting being a “science experiment”, and he returned fire with a salvo of gum flapping. Honestly, I don’t know why Hearn is flying off the handle like that. I mean, all Sanchez was doing was stating the obvious in pointing out that the end result of a fighter moving up two divisions from the welterweight class is for them to meet a brutal end. What’s wrong with that?
Did Hearn expect Sanchez to sugarcoat it by saying that Brook will do swell on Saturday night and beat GGG? Come on, Brook is over-matched and the whole world knows that. If Hearn doesn’t want Sanchez to address this, then he needs to close his ears and cover his eyes to try and block reality.
Sanchez said that Brook would “brutally discover it takes more than a 10-week science experiment to topple Gennady Golovkin,” at the final press conference.
Yeah, I think there are many boxing fans that will agree with what Sanchez is saying. I do think it’ll be brutal inside the ring for Brook on Saturday night. I can’t lie about his chances. They’re not good. Golovkin has knocked out 22 fighters in a row dating back to 2008, and he’s fighting a welterweight that is pumped up, slower, and unproven in the weight class.
Golovkin is fighting a welterweight that has only fought one good opponent in his entire 12-year pro career in Brook. The only good fighter that Brook has fought during his career is Shawn Porter, who he had to hold all night long to keep from getting pummeled. Even then, the fight was very, very close. I had Porter winning the fight, because I couldn’t give Brook rounds where he held more than 10 times. I saw those are rounds where he should have had a point deducted. As such, I had Porter winning a lopsided decision in winning every round of the fight.
I’m just really looking forward to see if Brook will go back to his old bag of tricks by choosing to clinch like mad on Saturday night. It’s going to look bad on Brook’s part him doing all that clinching in front of all those people that will be showing up at the O2 Arena in London, England. I hope Brook doesn’t stoop to that level to try and win, because it’ll look so bad if he turns the fight into a real stinker like he did with the Porter fight.
“I was quite surprised from Abel,” Hearn said to skysports.com. “I don’t know whether the pressure’s getting to them a little bit. They feel invincible as a team. They feel they can just rock up to these cities, go out, knock people out, collect the money and off they go. I don’t think it’s going to play out like that,” said Hearn.
Of course, Golovkin can go into Brook’s home country and beat him in front of his own fans. Who is Hearn trying to kid? There’s nothing golden about a knockout artist with the talent that Golovkin has going into the UK to knockout a home fighter. As long as Golovkin takes the three judges out of the equation, he can do whatever he pleases with Brook. If the judges don’t have a say so in the fight, then why wouldn’t Golovkin be able to KO Brook in his home city? I mean, is there a special rule that states that visiting fighters can’t travel to a fighters home city to knock them to oblivion? I’m just saying.
Brook will have the fans on his side on Saturday night, but they won’t be able to get inside the ring with him to hold Golovkin down or tie his hands behind his back so that Brook can win. The fans are kind of helpless here. All they can do is open their yaps and hope that Brook can somehow draw enough energy from listening to that to take all the sledgehammer blows from Golovkin. The thing about fighters on adrenalin highs is that it doesn’t help them take head shots. It doesn’t work like that unfortunately. Adrenalin only makes a fighter fight harder – and some would say in a stupid manner. In that respect, adrenalin often works against fighters, because it causes them to fight with anger/fear rather than intelligence. As such, Brook’s fans can cheer as much as they want on Saturday night, but it’s not going to help him against Golovkin. On the contrary, I expect it to hurt him, because Brook will try and be brave in the ring and will run into a crushing head blow or body shot that will likely knock him over for the 10 count.
“I think they know now it’s serious. I think when the fight was first made they thought it was going to be an easy knock-over job. Now they know they’re in a real fight,” said Hearn.
Nah, I don’t think Golovkin is worried at all about this fight. It doesn’t matter what Sanchez and his promoter Tom Loeffler of K2. The guy that is going to be in the ring on Saturday night looking to smoke Brook straightaway will be Triple G, not Sanchez or Loeffler. I mean, Hearn can blabber all he wants about Sanchez being worried, but it’s Golovkin who will be beading down on Brook in this fight. Nothing else matters besides him. Golovkin is the horror that awaits Brook in this fight. If it was just Sanchez, then Brook would have no problems. It’s Golovkin that will be laying into him with his big power shots.