Kell Brook is leaving no stone unturned in his training for his fast approaching September 10 challenge of middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin. In fact, Brook is using some techniques that are of a secretive nature as he pushes his body to the max for the biggest fight of his entire career. Speaking with The Sheffield Star, the IBF welterweight champ’s head trainer Dominic Ingle revealed how the science dept of their local university in Sheffield has been brought in, with the aim being to get Brook added advantages regarding his cardio and his overall body performance.
“It’s a shorter camp than usual because of the circumstances surrounding how the fight was made,” Ingle told his local paper. “So we have brought Hallam University Sports Science department on board. This enables us to be more precise in how we manage his workload, weight and fitness goals in the given time. Techniques have been employed – which will remain confidential – to enable Kell’s cardiovascular system to cope with the added weight that takes him up to middleweight.”
It sounds very hi-tech and Brook will no doubt be spending plenty of money in preparations for the fight that has attracted so much attention. Of course, it will all be more than worth it if “The Special One” can shock the odds and get the victory next month. Brook is not the first fighter to adopt hi-tech, state-of-the-art training methods in a bid to move up in weight and be successful – the legendary Evander Holyfield, a light-heavyweight/cruiserweight who was looked at by many as being too small, made the move up to heavyweight greatness and was assisted in no small part by his futuristic training regime.
But the thinking is that this fight will come down to and be decided by one thing and one thing alone: the frightening punching power possessed by Golovkin. Brook is training hard and he deserves immense credit for pushing himself as hard as he is and for even taking this fight, but no amount of science and hi-tech will give a fighter a great chin. This is not to suggest Brook has a bad chin, maybe he even has a very good chin, but the welterweight has been hit and hurt in previous fights (see his first war with Carson Jones and his stoppage win of a fight with Vyacheslav Senchenko) and the critics say no way will Brook be able to withstand GGG’s bombs.
Time will tell, but at least we know the challenger in this fight will be as fully prepared and as fully confident of victory as is humanly possible.
