Kell Brook: record, next fight and profile →
By Cliff Rold - Boxing’s richest glamour classes have often been heavyweight, middleweight, and welterweight. Business is picking up at heavyweight and steady at welterweight. Then there is middleweight. In the age of social media, it’s almost an oxymoron to say the following: Let’s not overreact. Friday’s announcement that...
WBA/WBC/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) admits he was surprised when IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) accepted the opportunity to fight him on September 10th at the O2 Arena in London.
British middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. feels IBF/IBO/WBC/WBA middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) has killed his credibility by accepting a fall title defense against IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs).
IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) has snapped out at British middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. Eubank Jr. has slammed IBF/IBO/WBC/WBA middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) for accepting a fight with Brook for September 10th at the O2 Arena in London.
Abel Sanchez, trainer of IBO/WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), says the upcoming defense against Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) is a completely difference fight from the May encounter between Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Amir Khan.
Oleg Hermann, manager of IBO/WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), says there is no comparison between their decision to fight Kell Brook - and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez's decision to face Amir Khan in May.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) - a career welterweight and the current IBF belt-holder in that division - faces IBF, IBO, WBA and WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) in a full-fledged middleweight bout with a weight limit of 160-pounds.
Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport admits he nearly fainted when Chris Eubank Jr. and his father/manager Chris Eubank Sr. outlined their demands for a fall fight with WBC/WBA/IBF/IBO middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin.
It was announced on Friday that unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs) will be taking on IBF welterweight belt-holder Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) on September 10th from the O2 Arena in London, England.
According to promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, there were no issues in making a deal for a showdown between IBF, WBA, WBC and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook , which is scheduled to take place in London on September 10.