Kell Brook – What were you watching?

By Vegas Nation - 08/18/2014 - Comments

porter#2By Rusty Nate: Having read a few articles and more importantly the comments regarding the fight between Kell Brook and Shawn Porter, I felt compelled to put across the truth behind the stupid comments.

The fight was built up as being close between the two fighters for much of the same reasons on both sides. They were men that were untested on a realistic world class level.

Brook is a fighter that appears to have been protected and spoon fed easier opponents over the years than he probably should have been. That’s no surprise and is pretty accurate. He has fought above domestic level but probably nothing to far north of European / Commonwealth level.

Porter won his IBF Title of Alexander in fight where pressure prevailed over the 12 rounds. Which was a decent result for him although the scoring probably wouldn’t have been argued had it gone as a draw or the other way. He also stopped a Malignaggi in four rounds, was this impressive? maybe if he had done so 4-5 years ago when Paulie was in prime condition, age and on a winning streak.

Both fighters came into Saturdays clash from a point of view that anything could happen and that it was a real 50-50 fight. that’s fair to say.

What happened on Saturday was nothing short of a predominantly one sided fight. for the first few rounds Porter flew forward every 20 seconds, leading with his head and throwing so many uncoordinated punches that he couldn’t even keep up with himself. Brook weathered this storm by holding. The perfect defence to avoid being cut by illegal yet unpunished butting. This is a benefit of being the home fighter on many occasions in the past when fighting within the US.

Brook took over the fight from then forward and round after round he completely schooled the over-matched and under-skilled champion.

The result was a shock (or controversial as people call it) for the sole reason that the fight was happening in America. If this fight had played out 100% the same way in the UK, Canada, The Far East or anywhere else on the planet no one would be calling it controversial.

Was it messy? Yes

Was the result wrong? Not at all

If anything the 114-114 score card was the incorrect one. Porter I am afraid is just not as great as he was made out to be. He is a nice guy and accepted defeat like a champion and don’t get me wrong I still believe Kell is untested at the world level  but only because the best man he has fought is one that wasn’t good enough in my eyes to be or remain champion in the welterweight division.

If there is a rematch in the UK I see it being almost the same so lets not go down that route. If Kell fights Khan he will lose the first few rounds to speed until he manages to time that one punch that will no doubt floor Khan as per usual.



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