By Scott Gilfoid: Carson Jones (35-9-3, 25 KO’s) and Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KO’s) will be facing each other in a rematch this Saturday night at the Craven Park Stadium, Yorkshire, UK. Jones, 26, is promising to spoil the atmosphere for the 27-year-old Brook by beating him in front of his own fans and leaving him an unhappy camper.
Jones said at their final press conference “There’s going to be a lot of sad faces after the fight guaranteed. You’re going to be one of them…If he dies, he dies.”
The last line seemed to stun Brook and his promoter Eddie Hearn because both of them looked in shock after Jones uttered it.
What it tells me is that Jones means business this time, and he’s going to take the judges out of the equation to make sure he doesn’t win up losing another controversial decision like he did last year in July where Jones fought well enough to get the decision, but instead found himself on the losing end by a 12 round majority decision.
It was pretty awful scoring of the fight if you ask me because Brook was batted around like a baseball in the second half of the fight.
Brook has talked about not being in condition for the fight, but Jones doesn’t buy the excuses. He sees Brook just reaching for any kind of excuse to cover up the fact that he took a pounding from the superior fighter.
Jones said this as quoted by Boxrec, “He didn’t have stamina problems, he had a Carson Jones problem. I was pressing him, hitting him with clean shots. I broke his nose in the eighth round and from then on it was pretty much my fight.”
Jones wore Brook down with his constant pressure, not letting him rest like he normally does when fighting, and that seemed to sap all energy out of the British fighter in the last half of the fight to where he was just a punching bag at the end of the fight.
I still think that Jones would have stopped a badly hurt Brook in the 12th round if the referee hadn’t stopped the action to give Jones a long warning in the last seconds of the fight when he had Brook staggering and ready to drop.
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