Ricky Hatton Believes It's Possible For Kell Brook To Win

 

Ricky Hatton believes Kell Brook can upset the odds and dethrone middleweight king Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night. Brook is moving up two weight divisions to take on WBA Super, WBC and IBF champion Golovkin at The O2 in London.

Hatton believes victory for Brook would surpass his own famous win over Kostya Tszyu in 2005, but the former world champion admits the odds are stacked against the Sheffield fighter.

He said “It's Golovkin's toughest fight, Golovkin fought some good men and that's how high I hold Kell Brook as a fighter. I think it will be his toughest test. It is a massive, massive, massive ask, I think you've got one of the best middleweights there's probably been ever, to be honest with you. You've got to put him up there with some of the best, given how destructive he's been. The fact he's going up two weights is a big, big ask but I think Kell will give him his toughest fight. Nobody thought I could beat Kostya Tszyu and I did do, so you can't say that it's an impossibility and Kell's not going to win. But I think we've got to fear the worst because he is a punching machine and he looks very, very heavy handed. Golovkin is the favourite at the end of the day, but it's not beyond the realms of impossibility.”