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.