(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (24-0-1, 15 KOs) isn’t impressed with the inside fighting skills of #1 IBF Kell Brook (32-0, 22 KOs), and he believes that’s an area that he can take advantage of this Saturday night when he faces him at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Brook tends to stay on the outside most of the time, and when he’s in close he’s not doing much other than holding or wrestling.

Porter also plans on taking Brook deep into the fight to test his stamina, because he notes that he’s not had too many fights go the full distance during his career. This is something that Porter really can’t plan on though, because Brook could fall apart in the early rounds in the same way that Paulie Malignaggi did in getting beaten to a pulp on the inside last April from Porter’s huge shots.

If Brook does make it to the later rounds, he’s likely going to be running on empty. He had stamina problems in the past in his fights against Matthew Hatton and his first fight against Carson Jones.

Brook says he addressed the issue with more focus on his diet and conditioning, but he’s not faced anyone that has tested his stamina since the Brook-Jones I fight. All of Brook’s fights since that bout have either been early stoppages or fights where he was able to fight at a really slow pace in order to keep from getting winded.

Porter is going to be on top of him, forcing Brook to fight at a fast pace in every round whether he wants to or not. I have a feeling that we could see Brook gas out again and a lot sooner than the later rounds if Porter goes after him.

“He [Brook] doesn’t really fight too well on the inside, I think I can go there,” Porter said to RingTV.co. “Also I know he hasn’t been the distance too many times with tough competitors like myself so we’ll push him into the later rounds and see what happens.”

Porter taking the fight to Brook on the inside is going to put him under a lot of stress, because he’s not been hit much during his career in facing the weak fodder that he’s been matched up. Only two of Brook’s past opponents – Vyacheslav Senchenko and Carson Jones – have been able to hit him and they both had him hurt. The rest of the guys that Brook has fought were either incredibly poor fighters or mediocre without the skills or the power to test him,