Witter thinks Kell Brook should retire

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBC light welterweight champion Junior Witter wonders whether Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) has some kind of bone weakness in his face that causes him to suffer broken eye sockets following his 11th round TKO loss to unbeaten American Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) last Saturday night at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England.

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Kell Brook & Boxing Being Unpredictable

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By Shaun La: This past Saturday, professional boxing in the welterweight division displayed a very competitive bout that lived up to the the heavily promoted expectations that lived over Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KO’s) vs. Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KO’s). The welterweight division has been the depth of talent in professional boxing for these past 25 or 30 years; furthermore, this division has held the most famous and legendary boxers in professional boxing, from Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Manny Pacquiao, to Sugar Ray Robinson to Sugar Ray Leonard.

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Keith Thurman Will Beat Errol Spence, No Doubt

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By J. Ortega: Past Saturday, Errol Spence Jr. ended the virtue out of Kell Brook with a good performance that broke Brook’s eye socket in front of his hometown, making him take a knee and quit. Before Brook quit, the match-up was even in terms of competitiveness. I believe Brook drained to 147lb, after he came down from 160lbs, took a toll on his physique fatigued in the later rounds. Unlike his fight with Shawn Porter, Brook’s endurance went systematically down in the later rounds, so Spence took full advantage of his performance and slowly mowed down Brook.

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Did Kell Brook quit against Spence?

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By Scott Gilfoid: One question that has been heavily debated by fans ever since last Saturday night is whether Kell Brook quit after taking a knee in the 11th round last Saturday night against Errol Spence Jr? It looked like Brook chose to quit rather than continue fighting and go out on his shield the way that many of the fighters in the past have done. Brook, 31, had suffered an eye injury to his left eye at some point in the second half of the fight.

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Brook says Spence fight would have been different if not for eye injury

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By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook believes his fight with Errol Spence Jr. would have gone a lot differently if not for an eye injury that he sustained in the second half of the fight last weekend in England. Brook believes that the fight would have had a different result. Of course, this is the same thing that Brook said after his 5th round knockout loss to Gennady “GGG” Golovkin last year, so it’s kind of hard to hear the same thing from the “Special One” and not see it as more excuse-making from the 31-year-old fighter.

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Kell Brook NOT retiring

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By Scott Gilfoid: Two days after suffering a broken right eye socket in his defeat to Errol Spence Jr. last Saturday night, Kell Brook is saying that he plans on resuming his boxing career after he recovers from his injury that he sustained at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England. Brook says he doesn’t want to end his career on a defeat.

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Groves v Chudinov and Brook v Spence analysis

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By Adam Godfrey: On the final weekend of May 2017 Great Britain gained a new World Champion, before promptly losing an established one. Hammersmith native George Groves finally won a World Title at the fourth attempt, defeating Russian Fedor Chudinov by 6th round TKO to clinch the vacant WBA Super-Middleweight strap. The belt was owned by Chudinov himself until 2016 whereupon he lost a controversial UD to German Felix Sturm; few had Sturm winning that fight, and accusations that Chudinov was robbed were well justified. Sturm would later fail a drugs test, further underlining the sense of injustice felt by the Russian’s team, again, justifiably so.

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Hearn: I told Brook to move to 154 BEFORE Spence fight

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By Scott Gilfoid: British promoter Eddie Hearn wanted to make it clear to the boxing media after his fighter Kell Brook lost to Errol Spence Jr. last Saturday night that he had wanted him to move to 154 to campaign at junior middleweight. Hearn maintains that Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) would be better at 154 than he would at 147.

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Brook’s trainer not giving Spence much credit for winning

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By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle wasn’t ready to give Errol Spence Jr. too much credit last Saturday night after he dispatched his fighter in the 11th round in that fight on Sky box PPV. Ingle said Brook’s eye injury was the main cause for Kell to lose to Spence. Ingle says the eye injury occurred in the 6th and 7th round. From that point, Spence took over the fight.

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Weekend Wrap — Spence shines, Brook ponders future

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By Donavan Leonard: Yet another great weekend for boxing with the Errol Spence Jr. win over Kell Brook.  Though not as jam-packed with big bouts as last weekend, it could hardly be called disappointing when the “main event” of the weekend drew over 27,000 fans to Sheffield, England.  Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) lost his IBF welterweight title via eleventh-round TKO to Errol Spence, Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) in a great matchup that featured high-level boxing, a tremendous atmosphere, and a clear ending.

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