By Gerardo Granados:Last night the boxing fight fans gathered to watch a real title fight that didn’t disappoint anyone who was watching. It was a close, competitive fight until the tenth round. I had it scored 96-93 and was really surprised to know that all three judges had Spence ahead before the stoppage.
At the eleventh round after a knock down Kell Brook took a knee touching his left eye that was badly swollen and then the referee stopped the fight. Later it was informed that Brook suffered an orbital fracture on his left eye, the eye that was not hurt by Gennady Golovkin.
After the fight ended I read many posts and comments on Brook quitting, many disappointed on the way the fight ended and some even dared to criticize him really hard, but two of them should first find a pen or get permission from his boss to fight the top man in the division before criticize Brook.
I cannot say that Brook quitted due lack of heart, he might have broken his eye socket in the ninth round and kept on fighting due his strength and conditioning and mostly due his courage, I think he gave all he had but the ghost of the Gennady Golovkin fight appeared.
It is important for Brook to take a long layoff of at least 10 months because it is his second serious injury in a row that can be fixed and heal properly none the less better give enough time to his body to properly heal. If Brook still has the fire I believe he can still be a threat but might have to adjust his style to a counter puncher.
Congrats EJ, but there is no true 👑 until you see me. #OneTime pic.twitter.com/oBbwowShGv
— Keith Thurman Jr. (@keithfthurmanjr) May 27, 2017
After the fight ended, the WBC-WBA welter titlist Keith Thurman and Errol Spence exchanged tweets making it sound to be interest in both parties to fight in the near future. Keith recovers from a recent elbow surgery so maybe by the end of this year or early on 2018 that fight could be made.
A friend asked if Errol Spence can dominate the welter division, I replied to him that Spence has the tools to do so and he can only improve and the more experience he acquires the more dangerous Errol will become. For sure Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman can compete against him, but I would bet on Spence to stop them both. Maybe Terence Crawford will finally move up or probably a new young lion is about to arrive to the welterweight scene, but meanwhile the most dangerous lion in the division must be Spence.
Spence had a long layoff before his fight against Brook and hopefully he stays more active from now on because having him inactive is a waste of talent. Future looks bright for fight fans this 2017 and we are only at the end of May; so let’s wait for more good fights and forget about the circus fight mismatches.
By the way, does the reader know anyone calling himself boxing fan, who manifest clear cognitive dissonance, when he states that he doesn’t need to see a boxer hurt to have fun? I mean when two boxers fight the goal is to hurt the opponent isn’t it?
