Golovkin had NO respect for Kell Brook

By Boxing News - 09/27/2016 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: According to trainer Abel Sanchez, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin had no respect at all for Kell Brook in their fight on September 10 of this month, and that’s why Golovkin was sloppy in the fight. Sanchez says Golovkin could have made it a very technical fight and boxed the 30-year-old Brook if he wanted to, but he had no reason to, being that Brook had no power and couldn’t hurt him.

Golovkin ended up breaking Brook apart in the 5th round causing his trainer Dominic Ingle to throw in the towel to save him from getting badly hurt. Brook’s right eye socket was broken by the power of Golovkin’s left hook in the 2nd round. Brook would later say that he could have been blinded in his right eye if he had stayed in the fight and continued to take blows to the head.

“We had a guy in front of us that he had no respect for, so he tried to make it a fight,” said Sanchez about Golovkin’s fight against Brook. “It was a little sloppy, but you know what? It’s a ‘W.’ He was reaching too much, and throwing off balance. He was trying too hard to do the things he was practicing in the gym. He could have taken his time and made it more of a technical fight, but what for? He had no respect for Kell after the first round after hurting him. He was trying to put on a drama show that he likes to put on. Look at some of his [Golovkin] interviews before the fight. He said he was going to make it a street fight. That’s what he called it.”

Golovkin has taken some criticism from boxing fans, who say that he looked bad in beating Brook. Some fans even speculate by saying that Brook would have actually beaten Golovkin if not for suffering an eye injury. These fans can only guess, of course, because the outcome showed that Brook broke apart from the power in Golovkin’s shots.

If a boxer falls apart physically from the force of another fighter’s punches, then that tells you that they can’t win. If Brook stayed in the fight with Golovkin, he would have risked permanent harm. I suspect that Brook would be broken no matter how many times he fought Golovkin. Something would break in Brook’s face or perhaps ribcage from the force of Golovkin’s punches.

It’s too bad that Brook and Golovkin can’t keep fighting each other over and over so that the boxing fans can find out for themselves whether Brook could beat him. But when you get broken apart the way that Brook did, it’s best that you not risk your career by fighting Golovkin again.

Brook needs to lick his wounds, learn his lesson from this fight, and move on. The lesson that Brook can learn is he doesn’t have the punching power, legitimate size, and the ability to handle the shots from Golovkin. That’s why it would be best for Brook to boil back down to 147, because that’s the only place where I see him being able to compete at a high level.

Sanchez says he sees no point in matching Golovkin vs. WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara, because he’s no threat to beating Golovkin and the overall boxing world isn’t asking for the fight. Golovkin vs. Lara wouldn’t make big news in the sport. Besides that, Lara’s management has never come to Golovkin to make an offer for a fight. Sanchez says that if Lara really wants to fight GGG, then his management needs to offer the money to see if he’ll turn it down. Sanchez doesn’t seem to think Lara wants the fight, because if he did then he would have had his management approach Golovkin.

Sanchez said to Dontae’s Boxing Nation:

“It’s not a fight I would get motivated for, and Golovkin would get motivated for,” said Sanchez about a match-up between Golovkin and Lara. “He’s not someone that I could see as a threat to us. It’s not a fight wanted by the general public. I’m not the one who chooses. I’m not the one who approves. Why hasn’t Lara’s people come to Golovkin and say this is how much is on the table, fight us. Let Golovkin turn it down, and then they can say, ‘I turned it down.’”

It would be a very tough fight for Lara, because he would be forced to move constantly to try and stay away from Golovkin. Lara doesn’t have the ability to stand and fight. We saw that in his loss to Saul Canelo Alvarez and in his fight against Alfredo Angulo. Lara would be forced to move for the entire 12 rounds, and he’s not going to beat Golovkin by fighting like that. He would take too many heavy body shots while on the move, and he wouldn’t win. It would be a bad fight to watch if Lara moved without trying to make a fight of it. But Golovkin cuts off the ring a lot better than Canelo, and he would literally force Lara to fight him whether he wanted to or not.