By Edward Chaykovsky
Tom Loeffler, promoter for WBA/IBF/IBO middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), is willing to negotiate the details if IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) is actually serious about facing the feared puncher.
Shortly after Amir Khan announced that he was moving up from welterweight to challenge WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo Alvarez at a catch-weight of 155, Brook announced that he was eager to match that move by heading up for a fight with GGG.
The big question in making this fight is the weight limit.
Brook would like to meet Golovkin at a catch-weight of 157-pounds if possible. Golovkin has recently refused the idea of facing Canelo at a catch-weight of 155.
Golovkin is the mandatory challenger to the WBC title held by Canelo. The winner of Canelo-Khan will have 15 days to make a decision on whether or not they plan to make a mandatory defense against Golovkin. If either takes a pass, then Golovkin would become the WBC champion - and his scheduled would be clear for a possible fight with Brook.
"If Kell is really serious, it would be something to discuss," Loeffler exclusively told Sky Sports. "Brook is one of the best fighters in the sport. He's at 147lbs and Gennady is at 160 so the only question we have is about the weight, nothing else.
"A lot of great welterweights have fought at middleweight - a classic example is Sugar Ray Leonard, who moved up to 160lbs to beat Marvin Hagler. Any comments we have made about Brook have not been disparaging, we have a lot of respect for him. His win over Shawn Porter was fantastic - I rated Porter as one of the best welterweights in the division so for Brook to come to America and beat him speaks volumes."
"If you outgrow your division, I don't consider it a major accomplishment if you move up. What is a big accomplishment is fighting outside of your division when you don't have to. Kell clearly can make welterweight so if he ever moved up to middleweight to challenge Gennady, that would be a big statement. Kell is the type of fighter that I would give the most respect to."
