By Victor Salazar
New York - Another day comes and another British welterweight moves up two weight classes to fight a middleweight champion. Kell Brook (36-0,25 KO's) is doing what his countryman Amir Khan did in May when he took on Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez at a catch-weight of 155-pounds.
Except this time Brook is moving up by thirteen pounds to the full middleweight limit to face the man that everyone is avoiding at 160-pounds - IBO, IBF, WBA and WBC champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 KO's). The two meet on September 10th in the O2 arena in London.
Kell Brook’s promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, was keen on criticizing the fight between Khan and Canelo, although this fight between Golovkin and Brook falls under the same premise.
However, Hearn says there is a difference.
“He’s a lightweight,” Hearn said about Amir Khan, “He’s been knocked out at lightweight, he’s been knocked out at welterweight. Kell Brook is really a light middleweight who’s been a welterweight for a long long time.”
Though Khan did have some success against Canelo, he ultimately was knocked out, which is something Hearn predicted.
“We always felt Khan would be too small for Canelo,” explained Hearn. “Khan outboxed Canelo for 4 or 5 rounds and then got knocked out. It played out exactly how we said it would. He’d start fast and get knocked out.”
So then what is the difference in the two fights?
“This fight will be one of top pound for pound fighters with 71 wins and no losses, best welterweight in the world fighting the most feared fighter in the world. At one stage you got the media and fans saying all these guys never taking and risks, then when they step up, you got guys saying oh man this is crazy and this is dangerous. What do you want one or the other?”
