However, coach Freddie Roach may not directly disagree with this technical assessment, but he thinks Kell Brook has practically no chance at all to beat GGG and likened it to another match up that previously received wide criticism: Canelo Alvarez vs. Amir Khan. I think he knows he’s in one hell of a fight. “People in the United Kingdom understand boxing”.
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Check out Gennady Golovkin’s greatest hits by HBO Boxing below. Unbeaten, well schooled, disciplined, charming. “It’s everything I’ve always imagined, and it’s here now and I can’t wait to get in on Saturday night and to show myself what I can do”. He promises to entertain and wants a brawl with the Sheffield hero which can only mean fireworks.
“He’s seen me getting a bit of attention and he’s like a woman, he wants some as well”.
“The best comes out of me when my back’s against the wall; when I’m under that pressure”. Does he fell sharp and alert and not sluggish, Does he feel solid and not fleshy. Sugar Ray Robinson accomplished this in 1951 when he knocked out Jake LaMotta in 13 rounds.
If Golovkin defeats Brook Saturday night, his WBA mandatory will be against Daniel Jacobs (31-1, 28 KOs), who fights a rematch against Sergio Mora (28-4-2, 9 KOs) Friday night in Reading, Pennsylvania.
“This fight will separate me from the rest of Britain’s world champions”, Brook told BBC Sport. The longest of the 17 world championship fights was in Monaco in 2015 and that trickled painfully into the 11th round before the referee decided that Martin Murray’s ribs could not take another second of abuse. But we’ve got to understand also that boxing isn’t what it was yesterday. Gennady Golovkin. Its not just his offence but his footwork.
Golovkin is known as a fearsome counter-puncher. If I have one concern of Golovkin is the lack of head movement defensively. You know yourself, they are not on my level.
Golovkin is the biggest foreign name to fight in the United Kingdom since Russian-born Australian Kostya Tszyu fought Ricky Hatton in Manchester back in 2005. This was before Golovkin had adopted his inside fighting skills that he has today.
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“At first I was surprised it would be him”, he said. I can’t just stay in Kazakhstan. Those small percentages add up to a difference big enough to cleanly win. There will be a moment where Brook will have a period of sustained success early, perhaps having to force Golovkin to find a way to adjust to his slippery and strategically minded foe early. He has a growing army of fans across his adopted homeland in America and millions watch his bouts in Mexico, where fight fans consider him one of their own.
