Golovkin vs Brook: Preview of the world middleweight title fight
Saturday 10 September 2016 23:31, UK
Your one-stop preview of Saturday's bout between WBA Super, WBC and IBF world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook - live on Sky Sports Box Office.
Background
IBF world welterweight king Brook leaps up two divisions to challenge one of the sport's pound-for-pound kings and London's O2 will be packed to the rafters to see 'The Special One' bid to ensure a place in history.
Golovkin will be making his UK debut. He made his US debut back in 2012; announcing himself to the state of New York with a devastating knockout of Grzegorz Proksa and followed that with a bloody battering of Gabriel Rosado at Madison Square Garden.
Many expect Kazakhstan's most famous export to make a spectacular example of Brook too, but a rumoured struggle with illness during fight week has handed Brook supporters further reason to believe their man can pull off something truly special.
What the fighters say
What the trainers say
What the promoter says
What the pundits say
What other fighters say
Brook may beat him to the punch the first couple of rounds but as soon as Golovkin catches him, I think he's going to knock him out.
I’d love for Kell to do it but I can’t see it happening so I’m going for a Golovkin stoppage in the second half of the fight. It’s hard to pick but if I had to put money on it, that’s where it would go.
Kell Brook has a harder task than I do. When I beat Canelo, they might offer me Golovkin because I’ll be one of the big names but he’s not on my radar at the moment.
Hopefully he can pull it off but Golovkin is a beast. You'd have to go with the favourite, Golovkin. I'm hoping Brook can pull off the shock to become a two-time champion, 100%.
The weigh-in
The time draws near...
Watch Gennady Golovkin v Kell Brook, live on Sky Sports Box Office from The O2, on September 10. Book the event via your Sky remote or online here.
