Retired former super-middleweight king and current Sky Sports pundit Carl Froch has weighed-in with his thoughts on this Saturday’s massively intriguing Gennady Golovkin-Kell Brook fight and, though Froch does not go so far as to say his countryman will get the win, he does say that unbeaten pound-for-pound star GGG is in for the “toughest fight of his career so far.”
Froch sparred an up and coming Book back in 2009, as he was getting ready to fight Andre Direll in the “Super-Six” tournament, and though the spar was a long time ago, Froch remembers it well and feels that the problems he had nailing Brook, and avoiding his right hand, could be obstacles GGG has trouble with also.
“I know it was a few years ago, but I sparred with Kell and I didn’t enjoy it in the slightest,” Froch said. “Kell was awkwards, he was impossible to hit and although it was only two or three rounds I remember thinking, this kid is going all the way. When I did get in that right hand over the top kept landing. In the end, I just had to walk him down and then,with my weight, shove him back. But it was a nightmare spar. It could be the same for Golovkin on Saturday night.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQCsgyUlJ0
Froch went on to say how he feels that Golovkin will also use his size and strength against Brook, but that we “will see how good Golovkin is” in the upcoming fight. The big question is, will Brook be able to either avoid all, or most, of GGG’s power shots, or be able to take them? If he can, Froch will be proven correct and Triple-G will be in for the biggest test of his so far hugely dominant pro career.
Brook is of course trained by the Ingles, Dominic, son of Brendan, being his head trainer, and the style of fighting that emerged from that famous Sheffield gym is of the hit and not get hit, frustrate your opponent all you can approach. Maybe GGG will have a harder time hitting Brook flush than he and the majority of fans feel will be the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vHVg2aJBc
We simply cannot wait for this one!