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Anxious weight for Golovkin?
- Updated: September 9, 2016
All eyes will be on today’s weigh-in for Gennady Golovkin v Kell Brook with some claiming the world middleweight king is under the weather.
It’s the twist most British boxing fans might have hoped for. At least the ones shrewd enough to accept Brook needs a conspiracy of circumstances and that crucial smidgen of luck to pull off what critics deem the impossible.
It was said by several of the attendees at Thursday’s press conference; the all-conquering Kazakh does not look well.
Sport’s history of upsets is strewn with big names disappointing on big stages but what may spring to mind in the wild dreams of Brook fans is the memory of a shadowy Ronaldo in Brazil’s 1998 World Cup final defeat to France in Paris. Is Brook now the equivalent of Zinedine Zidane on the verge of a glorious coronation?
Promoter Eddie Hearn said Golovkin looked “drawn”, former world champion Johnny Nelson added the word “thin” and others on social media asserted that he had curtailed extra media interaction because he was feeling “unwell”.
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