WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) will defend his titles against Britain’s Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London.
The match-up comes as a shock since KO king Golovkin was in negotiations to face Chris Eubank Jr, while IBF welterweight champion Brook looked set for a unification fight with WBO titleholder Jessie Vargas. But the negotiations seemingly stalled.
Instead Brook, 30, will jump two divisions to take on 34-year-old Golovkin,…