Kell Brook has acknowledged that WBO super-welterweight champion Saul Alvarez could be a potential opponent when he returns to the ring in 2017.
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“I need to get back training and see if I could make 147lb healthily – that’s a possibility because I’m a world champion at that weight”.
“I’d love that fight with Canelo”. It just seems like one of those fights right off the bat that just fits.
“I want my next fight to be in Britain”. They’re not rushing it but it looks like this Friday.
Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions revealed to the media last Saturday night that he had offered Gennady “GGG” Golovkin an eight-figure offer to fight his guy Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
The Briton is set to undergo surgery later this week and expects to be out of action for “a good few months”.
Brook moved from welterweight to middleweight to challenge Golovkin, but could not deal with the Kazakh’s power and was eventually stopped in the fifth round. The Brit jumped up to the middleweight division but could not get past Golovkin who beat him in five rounds.
Smith attributes his loss to a lack of preparation, noting that an injury prevented him from sparring weeks before the fight. I only start sparring when I’m four weeks away from a fight anyway.
“The Special One” added: “I told him [Dominic] in round two that my eye was broken and that I couldn’t see so he was aware of what was going on in the fight”.
“He’s obviously seen me taking shots, couldn’t see, and he kept seeing me trying to refocus my eye”. That’s when he waved it off. “I started going after him, but in the second round I hurt my hand”.
Alvarez brutally pummeled Smith even through his protective peek-a-boo defense round by round wearing him down although Smith fought back nearly equal to Canelo Alvarez’ onslaught but not hurtful enough to stop his aggressiveness. I was smaller and had no time to make him even think twice.
“Kill the body and the head dies”, that has always been the lifelong instructional offensive adage of every boxing trainer that I have ever met in my long years involved in boxing, including my 13 years in the school of hard knocks.
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Kell Brook says he will take his time before getting back into the ring but is looking forward to some big fights once he does return. I think he was starting to tire.
