By Jeff Aranow: The well-known Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says that welterweight Kell Brook (36-0 25 KOs) is going to suffer the same fate that Amir Khan did recently when he made the move to step up in weight two divisions to take on a powerful middleweight in Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Arum says he sees the 30-year-old Brook getting knocked out by IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in their fight on September 10th. In fact, Arum gives Brook zero chance of winning the fight against Triple G.
Boxing Superstar and Unified Middleweight World Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, (35-0, 32 KO’s) and Undefeated British Boxing Star and Welterweight World Champion “The Special One” Kell Brook, (36-0, 25 KO’s) will hold a New York City Press Conference to formally announce their highly anticipated international showdown on Saturday, September 10 at The O2 Arena in London, England. The world title clash will be televised on Sky Sports Box Office in the United Kingdom and Live on HBO World Championship® Boxing in the United States
By Scott Gilfoid: If you’re wondering why welterweight Kell Brook isn’t so worried about fighting middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for their fight on September 10 at 160, it’s because Brook weighs more than Golovkin. According to Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, Brook is weighing 178 pounds right now. He’s actually training down to get to 160 rather than training to gain weight to make the limit. Hearn says that Brook was at 185, but lost seven pounds to get to 178.
This isn’t surprising because Brook says it himself that he’s been draining himself for a long, long time to strip off weight to fight at the 147lb limit at welterweight all these years. Brook says he’s in between a 154lb and 160lb fighter in terms of his true weight class.
This means that Brook is a small middleweight just like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and just like Golovkin, who rehydrates to only 170lbs for his fights at middleweight. Golovkin could fight at junior middleweight if he wanted to if he wanted to try and get an advantage over his opponents in terms of weight. Golovkin doesn’t play that. He likes to fight guys that are either the same size as him or bigger. In the case of Brook, he’s likely to be bigger than GGG.
By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) doesn’t see himself as a welterweight. He feels that he’s in between junior middleweight and middleweight. In other words, Brook sees himself as a small middleweight that has been draining down to fight at 147 against welterweights his entire career.
Brook will be testing himself against the best fighter in the middleweight division in Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Brook says he’s going to beat Golovkin with his speed and punching power.
Brook feels that his power is enough to stop any fighter in the sport, and Golovkin is no exception. Brook wants to KO Golovkin. However, if the KO isn’t there, then he’ll be satisfied with just getting the win by a decision.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF World bantamweight champion Lee Haskins (33-3-, 14 KOs) will be making his second defense of his IBF belt against 36-year-old Stuart Hall (20-4-2, 7 KOs) on September 10 on the undercard of the Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. Kell Brook card at the O2 Arena in London, England. The fight card will be televised on Sky Box Office pay-per-view in the UK. I can’t say that the Haskins vs. Hall fight is a good one, because I don’t think it is. There are a number of fighters that I feel are more deserving of a title shot than Hall at the moment in my view.
Haskins, 33, has already easily beaten Hall in the past four years ago in defeating him by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision in 2012. Hall has since posted an 8-2-1 record with most of his victories coming against weaker opposition Hall has won his last four fights since suffering back to back losses to Randy Caballero and Paul Butler in 2014.
By Scott Gilfoid: It’s painfully obvious that IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook is going to be a huge underdog on September 10 when he gets inside the ring with IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Brook is giving away weight, power and height to the bigger, stronger Golovkin.
Trainer Robert Garcia sees this fight lasting only as long as Golovkin wants it to. Garcia thinks the whole match-up is a big joke, because he rates Golovkin as the clear No.1 middleweight in the division going against someone that isn’t even the third best welterweight.
By Scott Gilfoid: Welterweight Kell “Special K” Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) says that his natural weight is 160 pounds, and that when he’s in training camp at that weight before draining down to 147 for welterweights, he’s a lot stronger at that weight. Brook feels that by the time he gets down to 147, he’s not as strong because he can’t eat and it takes a lot out of him to make the weight.
With Brook now signed to fight IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) on September 10 at the full weight of 160 pounds for the middleweight division, Brook can now eat and keep his weight at 160.
Brook will still be giving away weight against the 170+ pound Golovkin if he keeps his weight at 160 throughout the entire training camp.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua thinks that weight could play an important part in the September 10 fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Kell Brook at the O2 Arena in London, UK. While Brook is going to be fighting in front of his own loyal British fans, he’s going to be giving away weight to the naturally bigger, stronger and dare I say more talented Triple G.
Joshua thinks the weight could be a factor in this fight because of Brook being a welterweight and needing to come up two divisions to fight Golovkin. It isn’t just weight though that will hamper Brook.
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios is giving welterweight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) no chance at all in beating IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in their fight on September 10.
Rios thinks that Golovkin is too much of a beast for Brook to have a chance at beating him. Rios sees the fight being won on size along due to Brook moving up from the welterweight division to take on Golovkin. Rios thinks the size and power difference between the two of them will be too much for Brook to overcome.
By Dan Ambrose: Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez sees there being no comparison to his fighter Triple G fighting a welterweight in Kell Brook and what Saul Canelo Alvarez did in beating up on former lightweight Amir Khan on May 7 of this year. Golovkin has been taking a lot of heat from the boxing world for choosing to fight IBF 147lb belt holder Brook rather than fighting one of the arguably more deserving top contenders in the 160lb division or at the very least fighting a top junior middleweight like Erislandy Lara.
Sanchez argues that Brook is a solid welterweight and not someone that was knocked out in the 1st round by lightweight Breidis Prescott in their fight eight years ago.
Khan moved up in weight from lightweight to light welterweight and ended up suffering defeats at the hands of Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia. Khan then moved up in weight to welterweight, where he was matched carefully until he choose to move up to 155 and face Canelo for his WBC middleweight crown.
