Ingle: In England, Brook would win 100% over Porter

By Boxing News - 08/13/2014 - Comments

porterBy Scott Gilfoid: Dominic Ingle, the trainer for Kell Brook (32-0, 22 KOs), sees his match on Saturday against IBF 147 pound champ Shawn Porter (24-0-1, 15 KOs), as a toss-up bout. He says that Porter has never fought anyone good, and that Brook has been working out for 16 weeks to get ready for this fight.

Ingle thinks he’s got the goods to take it. Ingle doesn’t rate Porter as being in the same league as Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr, and he feels he’s ready to be beaten on Saturday.

Ingle made a remark that seemed a little odd when he said if the fight were to be staged in the UK, Kell would win. It shouldn’t make any difference where the fight is staged. I don’t understand how it would be any different in the UK. If Porter is the better fighter, it shouldn’t be any different no matter where the fight takes place.

If Ingle is talking about Brook getting the benefit of the doubt if the fight went to the card just because he’s fighting at home in the UK, then that’s pretty sad. Of course, I’m sure if Porter had agreed to fight Kell in the UK, he’d have taken his own judges with him in the form of his fists in order to make sure the judges played no part in the outcome of the fight.

“We are expecting Kell to turn up on the night and become world champion,” Ingle said to the telegraph.co.uk. “Shawn Porter is no Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao. He’s similar to Kell really, he’s never fought anybody that I would consider a big name. To me it’s a 50-50 fight. In England, Kell would win the fight 100 per cent.”

I don’t see the fight as a 50-50 affair, because Porter does well against fighters that stand ramrod straight up like Brook does while he fights. Porter dominates fighters that don’t have an inside game like Brook. If Ingle hasn’t given Brook a crash course on teaching him to fight on the inside then he’s going to be in trouble on Saturday night when he gets in the ring with Porter and starts getting battered and beaten in an inside battle.



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