Brook thinks Mayweather is wise to stay away from him

By Boxing News - 06/29/2015 - Comments

brook45453By Scott Gilfoid: The untested and some would say unproven IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) thinks WBA/WBA/WBO welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) would do well to avoid him for the remainder of his career because Brook believes in his mind that he would be too much for Mayweather if he were to face him now. Brook thinks that he’s too hungry for Mayweather, and it would end badly against the American talent.

Like his fellow countryman Amir Khan, Brook for some reason hasn’t faced quality opposition during his 11-year pro career. Brook has really only faced one good opponent during his career in Shawn Porter, and even in that fight, Brook was forced to hold at the same clip that Adrien Broner did against Porter in order to keep from getting pounded into submission.

To say that Brook should have been docked points over and over again for his holding against Porter is putting it lightly. You can make an argument that Brook should have been disqualified for his holding in that fight because it was excessive and reminded me of the holding that former heavyweight Henry Akinwande did in his fight against Lennox Lewis many years ago.

“If I were him [Mayweather], I’d keep well away from me,” Brook said to Skysports.com. “I am hungry and I want to take that zero and turn it into one. People would really be excited about that fight. There’s me and Keith Thurman that can cause Mayweather problems.”

It sure would help Brook’s career to get the payday fight against Mayweather, but that’s all I see the fight really being – just a payday for Brook. He’s too slow, too mechanical and too upright for him to have a chance of beating a talented fighter like Mayweather. Besides that, Brook is far too inexperienced to ever beat a fighter like Mayweather. We’re talking about a fighter who has faced the following fighters in his last ten fights: Frankie Gavin, Jo Jo Dan, Shawn Porter, Alvaro Robles, Vyacheslav Senchenko, Hector David Saldivia, Carson Jones [twice], Luis Galarza and Matthew Hatton. In Brook’s five fights before that, he beat Rafal Jackiewicz, Lovemore Ndou, Philip Kotey, Michael Jennings and Krzysztof Bienias. Where in the heck is the quality among those fighters once you get past Porter?

The reality is that Brook has been matched very, very, very carefully during his 11-year pro career by consistently putting him in record-padding fights against mediocre opposition, and as such, he’s now finding himself being ignored by Mayweather because he has such a low footprint in the United States. You get what you put into a career.

If you pad your record like former heavyweight contender Brian Nielsen (64-3, 43 KOs), then you get very little in return. If you look at Nielsen’s career, he did very little other than get a fight against Mike Tyson towards the end of his career. Brook seems to be getting matched up the same way that Nielsen did. In Brook’s next fight on September 12th, his promoter Eddie Hearn wants to match him against former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios instead of a talented fighter like Keith Thurman, Marcos Maidana or Shawn Porter. With that kind of match-making, is it any wonder why Brook finds himself getting ignored by Mayweather and Amir Khan?



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