Alexander-Brook, Bundrage-Smith on February 23rd at the Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit, Michigan

By Boxing News - 12/31/2012 - Comments

alexander34By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KO’s) will be defending his title against the highly hyped Brit Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KO’s) on February 23rd in a fight at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. The Brook-Alexander fight is one where we may see Brook get really punished and possibly even stopped because he’s coming into this fight with almost zero real world experience.

It’s like Brook has had nothing but simulator fights rather than the real thing for the past 8 years because his opposition has been god awful during all these years. When his promoter Eddie Hearn put Brook in with slightly decent fighter in Carson Jones in July of 2012, Brook took a sad beating and was staggering around with a red nose in the 12th, looking a like he’d just come out of the Shochu Lounge and had his fill.

Brook took a real beating in that fight and then blamed it on his conditioning. Not an ounce of fat on him, and Brook is blaming it on his conditioning. I’ve heard them all. Alexander is going to take Brook to places that he’s never been before in this fight and he’s going to beat him worse than he did Marcos Maidana, who I think would blast Brook to bits.

On the undercard, the knockout artist IBF light middleweight champion Cornelius Bundrage (32-4, 19 KO’s) will be defending his title against Ishe Smith (24-5, 11 KO’s). Bundrage has a good chance of winning this fight by a knockout.

Smith doesn’t have much offense to speak of, and he’s not going to be able to hold off the bit punching Bundrage by trying to play it cute for 12 rounds. That’s not going to work, because there’s no place to go when you fight Bundrage. He does such a good job of cutting off the ring that you’re literally forced to go toe-to-toe with him.



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