Golovkin-Brook

By Allan Fox: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) says he was shocked at how big welterweight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) was when the two of them stood next to each other on the stage at their New York press conference this week. Golovkin perhaps was expecting to be standing next to a normal welterweight that was smaller than him.

Instead, Brook was the same size if not bigger than Golovkin. Brook is a little overweight and not the in shape fighter he is when he’s fighting. His promoter Eddie Hearn expects him to be at 167 when he faces Golovkin on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, England.

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By Chris Williams: Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) won’t have the chance of fighting for unbeaten Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s WBA middleweight title because the World Boxing Association won’t be sanctioning the September 10th fight as a title match-up due to the 30-year-old Brook never having fought at middleweight during his career. Brook is moving up in weight from the welterweight division to challenge Golovkin at the O2 Arena in London, UK.

If Golovkin wants to have his WBA title on the line for the fight, then he’ll need to request permission from the WBA to do so, according to Fight News.

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By Scott Gilfoid: It didn’t take long for the tickets to get scooped up by fans for the Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. Kell Brook fight at the O2 Arena in London, UK. The tickets for September 10th Golovkin-Brook fight sold out within 12 minutes of going on sale. That’s pretty incredible, and it shows the amount of interest that fans have in the fight in the UK.

The hype hasn’t been nearly as high in the U.S among the casual boxing fans, because they still have no idea about the match-up. It’s the hardcore boxing fans in the U.S that are avidly following the news on the fight. For the most part, it’s seen as another Amir Khan vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight despite the positive press about Brook.

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook was building himself something fierce on Thursday in taking to the media. He was busy pumping himself up, saying how he’s the better fighter than IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, and how he’s going to beat him on September 10 when the two of them get inside the ring at the O2 Arena in London, UK.

The main theme that Brook was repeating over and over again with the media is that the hard hitting Triple has never been inside the ring with someone like himself before, and he won’t know how to deal with what he’s got. Brook said that he doesn’t care if Golovkin chooses to try and box him, because he says he’ll his jab to get the better of the Kazakhstan fighter.

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By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin met with his opponent for his next fight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) earlier today in their kickoff press conference at in New York. This was the first time these two fighters had been in the same room with each other, and enabled them to size each other up before their fight on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, England.

Golovkin immediately noticed that the 30-year-old Brook was the same height as him, as well as being very big in terms of overall size. Brook looked nothing like a welterweight at all. He looked like a middleweight just like Golovkin. If Brook’s size remains the same as it is now, it could make for an interesting figh with two fighters of equal size battling it out on September 10 on Sky Box Office and HBO.

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