Kell Brook: ‘Golovkin bleeds like me. He’s human’

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HOW do you beat someone like Gennady Golovkin? He applies terrible pressure, hits with genuine force and has the footwork to always impose himself on his opponents. Perhaps Kell Brook will back off, manoeuvre round the ring and expect that because heโ€™s lighter he can move faster. So far though Golovkin has shown an uncanny ability to quickly cut down space in the ring. If Kell needs to drive the Kazakh off, force him on to the back foot for once, will he, two divisions up from his normal weight division, have the power to do that?

Itโ€™s a puzzle that Brook, for his part, seems eager to solve. โ€œHe bleeds like me. Heโ€™s human,โ€ Kell said coldly. โ€œIโ€™m just going to approach it as a champion. Go over the things weโ€™ve done in the gym and just execute it. Thatโ€™s what weโ€™re going to do. Thatโ€™s how weโ€™re going to approach this fight. Just go in there with a championโ€™s mentality, getting in there and winning.โ€

Brook believes his life has built him for this moment. โ€œMe getting stabbed and worried about if Iโ€™m ever going to walk again, never mind box, I think itโ€™s got me ready for this point now. Iโ€™ve stared death in the face and Iโ€™ve been put here for a reason,โ€ he said.

โ€œIโ€™ve not come to make the numbers up. Iโ€™m going there to take this massive win, a win thatโ€™ll be the biggest weโ€™ve ever seen. Thatโ€™s what pressure I give myself. But I always perform. When my backโ€™s against the wall I always come up with the goods.โ€

He insists he can handle Golovkinโ€™s power. โ€œIโ€™ve been sparring with middleweights, Iโ€™m just more heavy-handed,โ€ Kell said. โ€œWhen Iโ€™ve been getting hit, Iโ€™ve had no problem. Iโ€™m feeling different. Iโ€™m healthy at this weight so Iโ€™m able to take them a lot better and Iโ€™m obviously going to need them a lot better.โ€

โ€œI just know what I can do,โ€ he continued. โ€œIโ€™m going to go in there and concentrate on what I do in the gym and get in a rhythm and start doing what I want to do.

“I believe that the skills Iโ€™ve got and the mindset and the determination are different to everyone elseโ€™s.”

And he adds, โ€œThis is boxing. Anyone can be beat.โ€

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