By Edward Chaykovsky
IBF welterweight world champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) is aiming to check the chin of IBF/WBC/WBA/IBO world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) when they meet in London on September 10.
Brook is heading up by thirteen pounds to face Golovkin at the full middleweight limit of 160-pounds. Many views the contest as being physically unmatched and compare it to the May encounter between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan, which saw Brook's rival get brutally knocked out in six rounds.
Unlike Khan, Brook has fought around junior middleweight and he's a physically bigger fighter. Khan had also suffered knockout defeats at 135 and 140 before heading up to welterweight.
While Golovkin is feared for his power, Brook is also a heavy hitter in his own right. But will Brook's power follow him north through two divisions? He believes not only will the power follow him up, Brook feels confident of having enough pop in his punches to knock Golovkin out.
"I'm not interested in what he's going to do. I'm only interested in what I'm going to be doing. A lot of fighters that fought him, have lost before they get in there. They hear that he is a big puncher, its like Mike Tyson....... they already lost before they got in," Brook told Sky Sports.
"I've got no respect for him, hopefully he's going to give me some [punches] to give him some respect on fight night by feeling his power. But I'm going in there to concentrate on what I'm going to do. I'm going to do what I want when I want."
"I'm always looking to knock my opponents out. I've visualized a knockout already against this guy. Me record speaks for itself. I like to win, I always find a way to win and that's what we're looking for, for this fight."
