Weight of no expectation?

Kell Brook was approaching a stone heavier than Gennady Golovkin at the 30-day check-weigh-ins but looked in fantastic shape, writes Isaac Robinson.

It’s a physical mismatch, say some. Kell Brook will find it impossible to keep the naturally-bigger Gennady Golovkin off him, apparently. But while middleweight kingpin ‘GGG’ is an understandably clear favourite for September 10’s showdown, all kinds of gaps may have been closed by Wednesday’s events.

They were all about Brook. What was immediately remarkable was the eyesight of a camera presenting him looking ‘cut’ and then spinning forward and downwards to show the reading of the scales on which he stood. They read 176lbs.

That’s almost exactly 30lbs more than he weighed in for his last bout – a facile two-round stoppage of Kevin Bizier in defence of the IBF welterweight title. Over two stone. It’s amazing, really. It would be easy to spend a prolonged period of time trying to fathom both how Brook managed to make 147lbs so consistently and where he has hidden the ‘new’ weight.

Naturally, those who believe Brook to be out of his depth have leapt on the results of the preliminary weigh-in and attempted to turn them into a sign of ill-discipline and an impending struggle to make 160lbs. It’s a bizarre notion that he would find it hard to make weight for a limit two divisions above the one he’s accustomed to, and it’s an even more bizarre notion that a trainer of Dominic Ingle’s stature might miscalculate. Surely too bizarre …

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