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Unified middleweight world titleholder Gennady Golovkin and welterweight world titlist Kell Brook hit New York on Thursday to meet the media and discuss a showdown so highly anticipated that tickets for the event at the O2 Arena in London sold out in 11 minutes.The fighters have a combined record of 71-0. Brook will move up two weight classes to challenge for Golovkins belts on Sept. 10 (HBO in the U.S., Sky Box Office pay-pay-view in the U.K.) in a fight that took virtually everybody by surprise when it was announced last week.The fight seemingly took Golovkin by surprise as well.Just a couple days ago, my promoter Tom Loeffler called me and said Kell Brook wants to fight me, Golovkin said. This is big news for me. I know him. Hes very good fighter.Kell Brook is the best in his division and a big test for me. It will be a great show for everybody watching on TV or in the arena.Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, Golovkins promoter, was in the midst of closing a deal for GGG to face middleweight contender Chris Eubank. When that deal fell apart, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who promotes Eubank and Brook, told Loeffler that Brook was interested in the fight because his deal to face Jessie Vargas in a unification fight had also fallen apart.Most expect Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs), perhaps boxings most fearsome puncher, to stop Brook (36-0, 25 KOs). Golovkin has scored 22 knockouts in a row, and this will be his 17th title defense.But Brook, who walks around in the 180-pound vicinity, said he is ready for the challenge and is aiming to make the kind of history two of his boxing idols did by winning welterweight and middleweight world titles.Ive looked down in history and see what the greats did, Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson, Brook said. Its going to be a very hard fight. Were going to go through hell in this training camp.I want to give back to the fans and give them the best fights possible. Im ready for the challenge Gennady Golovkin brings and ready to win the fight.Said Dominic Ingle, Brooks trainer: Kell Brook is going into this fight as a massive underdog for the first time in a long time. Hes moving up two weight classes to fight the most feared man in boxing. Were relishing the challenge. Kell Brook has plenty of ambition. Beating Gennady Golovkin is the greatest challenge.Brook has wanted a major fight since winning his title but wound up being stuck with lesser foes in his three title defenses because none of the big names at welterweight were available or willing to fight him. Its the same problem Golovkin has had at middleweight, where lineal champion Canelo Alvarez, titleholder Billy Joe Saunders and Eubank have avoided him.We have to give Kell Brook a lot of credit for taking the fight, Loeffler said. Eddie is in a similar position in regards to lining up opponents. Fights happen if both fighters want to fight, and thats why this fight came together so quickly. This fight is truly the best fighting the best. The best welterweight versus the best middleweight.Hearn has put on many of the biggest fights in the U.K. over the past several years and views this as one of the biggest.Tom Loeffler faced the same struggles as I, Hearn said. Im so glad we were able to put together this fight in such an efficient manner. Great Britain right now is the epicenter of world boxing; we have 13 world champions. Kell Brook is the best pound-for-pound fighter among them.Kell Brook was one of the first fighters I signed as a promoter. Weve been waiting for a night like this for a long, long time. Weve offered numerous champions and challengers millions of dollars to fight Kell Brook, and all weve received has been silence and bluster.To be a great, you have to do something great -- and just like Kell Brooks heroes, Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson, who moved up from welterweight to win middleweight titles, Kell Brook is a great fighter. This is 71-0 -- 36-0 versus 35-0, two of the very best fighters in the world.NFL Jerseys Cheap . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping . Three came down to the fourth quarter while quarterbacks continued to shine in all four games; so important to the overall quality of the game. http://www.jerseysnflwholesale.net/ . 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Then came their big blows against a hard-throwing reliever to clinch the fourth series in a row for the Athletics.Crisp and Davis both hit two-run homers in the eighth off Matt Bush and the As beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 6-4 on Wednesday night.Davis had also homered in the first off Darvish, after Crisp led off the game with a triple into the right-field corner and scored on Jed Lowries sacrifice fly.I think we all enjoy playing with each other, that were going to get the job done, Davis said. Theres a loose relax-ness in the clubhouse before the games. Its a good chemistry. Winning creates that.While still eight games under .500 for the season, the As (47-55) have won nine of 13 games since the All-Star break. They have won four series in a row for the first time since May 2014, and they havent lost to Darvish in more than four years.I know your records your record, but we feel like we should have a better record. Now some guys that started off really cold are swinging the bats a lot better, manager Bob Melvin said. And now weve got a couple players in here that have brought some enthusiasm, playing hard, fighting for their jobs, want some playing time.Ryan Dull (5-2) threw 1 1/3 perfect innings in relief of Sean Manaea, who struck out nine without a walk in 6 2/3 innings. Ryan Madson worked the ninth for his 22nd save in 28 chances, two nights after giving up Adrian Beltres game-ending homer in the series opener.Darvish, 1-8 in 11 career starts against Oakland with that win coming May 16, 2012, struck out six without a walk. He left with a 3-2 lead after retiring 16 of the last 18 batters he faced, striking out Davis on a breaking pitch to end the sixth with a runner at third.Hes solid. You go out there, you know youre going to be in a battle, Crisp said.Ian Desmond hit his 20th homer for the Rangers, a two-run shot in the fifth that put them ahead 3-2. That came two innings after the All-Star center fielder had a two-out double and scored on Beltres single.Crisps homer in the eighth was on a 99-mphh fastball from Bush (3-2) that put the As up 4-3.dddddddddddd Davis second homer of the night, and 25th of the season, came on a 97-mph heater.The ball was up and center-cut, Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. Hes usually down. ... I would say thats what the issue was.SHORT HOPSDavis had his 10th career multihomer game, his second this season against the Rangers. He hit three homers at home against them May 17. ... Manaea, a rookie lefty, hasnt walked a batter over 26 2/3 innings his last four starts. ... Oakland has won 15 of their last 19 games when the opponent starts a right-handed pitcher.PLAYING THE FIELDOakland has played seven consecutive games without an error, which came after a season-high streak of seven games in a row with an error. All those miscues came right after the As set a club record by going 15 games in a row without an error.TRAINERS ROOMAthletics: LHP Rich Hill, who hasnt started since July 17 because of a persistent blister on his finger, will throw Friday without covering the blister. Melvin is semi-optimistic that Hill can pitch Sunday. If not, Sonny Gray will start the series finale at Cleveland. ... Lefty reliever Sean Doolittle, who missed his 28th game because of a strained left shoulder, is playing catch at 75 feet.Rangers: Texas Rangers slugger Prince Fielder will have his season-ending surgery Friday to repair a herniated disk in his neck. The surgery will be performed in Dallas by Dr. Drew Dossett, who two years ago did a cervical fusion of two disks just below the area that is bothering Fielder now.UP NEXTAthletics: After playing 13 consecutive days since the All-Star break, the As are off Thursday before opening a three-game series in Cleveland on Friday night.Rangers: Cole Hamels, 18-3 in 32 starts for Texas since coming in a trade from Philadelphia last July, pitches the opener of a four-game home series against Kansas City. The lefty beat the Royals on the road Saturday, when he was also matched up against right-hander Yordano Ventura (6-8). ' ' '