By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) thinks that he would have defeated unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) last Saturday night if he had been inside the ring with him instead of Kell Brook and if the two of them were fighting in the 168lb division.
The 39-year-old Froch claims that he would have been “Too big, too strong” for Triple G. Of course, Froch had his chance to fight Golovkin in 2014 when the fight was offered to him by Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler, but instead he retired rather than fight him. You can take that and see it anyway you want.
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn expects his fighter Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) to return to the ring in the spring or summer of 2017 following his 5th round TKO defeat to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) last Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, England. Hearn expects the 30-year-old Brook to make a full recovery from his eye surgery to repair a broken right eye socket he suffered last Saturday in the loss to Golovkin.
There’s no word yet from Hearn who Brook will be fighting when he returns to action next year. I suspect that it won’t be a talented junior middleweight. With Brook coming off of an eye injury, I think Hearn will feed him a couple of lower level 2nd tier fighters to get his confidence back and to make sure that his surgically repaired right eye is functional. I’m not sure why Hearn isn’t talking about wanting to put Brook back in with Golovkin. I mean, Brook was saying after the fight that he would want to get back in the ring with Golovkin, because he felt he would take over the fight and out-box the Kazakhstan fighter in the second half of the contest. If Brook really believes that he can beat Golovkin, then he should get Hearn to put him back in there with him. I’m just saying.
By Scott Gilfoid: The judges’ scores for last Saturday’s fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) looked kind of crazy to me. Brook’ promoter Eddie Hearn posted the judges’ scorecards and it showed that two of the judges had the fight dead even after four rounds with them each scoring it 38-38, and the third judge shockingly had Brook ahead by a 39-37 score after four rounds. In other words, this judge had Brook winning 3 rounds to 1 at the time of the stoppage.
Frankly, I’m baffled how a judge could see the same Golovkin-Brook fight that I did and have Brook up by a three to one score. That judge had Brook winning the 1st round despite the fact that he was staggered and badly hurt by Golovkin. That judge wasn’t the only one that gave round one to Brook.
By Eric Baldwin: British middleweight title holder Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) took a shot at Kell Brook and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) on his social media site on Saturday when he said that if GGG wants a fight, he should face him because his corner doesn’t have towels.
It was kind of a low blow in taking a shot at the 30-year-old Brook, whose trainer Dominic Ingle threw in the towel into the ring in the 5th round to save him from taking punishment in his fight against Golovkin at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Brook was getting worked over by Golovkin at the time that Ingle tossed the towel into the ring to have referee Marlon Wright stop the match.
By Dan Ambrose: Former world title challenger Gabriel Rosado says he saw weakness from IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 Kos) in his fight last Saturday night against Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) in their fight in London, England, and he can understand now why he chose not to fight former super middleweight champion Andre Ward.
Rosado notes that Golovkin was easy to hit, and he thinks he can be taken advantage of if a bigger opponent can get in close to him.
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan posted a weird message on his social media site last Saturday night following Kell Brook’s 5th round stoppage loss to middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin at the O2 Arena in London, England. In the post, Khan appeared to be getting in a dig at Brook while at the same time giving him credit for giving Triple G a competitive match until his corner Dominic Ingle threw in the towel to save him from punishment in the 5th. See for yourself:
“That towel just showed the hype, overshadowed the setup. Feel for Kell. He did brilliant. [He] Dared to be great. Credit where it’s due.”
I’m not sure I understand what “hype” that Khan is talking about. Is it the Brook hype? Yeah, I don’t think Brook has ever really proven his ability in the welterweight division to be hyped properly. Brook just has that one fight against Shawn Porter to show for him in the 147lb division in terms of fighting quality opposition.
Sadly, that fight was little more than 12 rounds of spoiling for Brook, as he held Porter at every opportunity. That wasn’t real fighting. Other than that one fight against Porter, Brook faced largely horrible opposition in 12 years of record padding fights. As such, Brook came into the fight against Golovkin with a 36-0 record, but it wasn’t against quality opposition. You couldn’t really hype Brook because his resume was filled with wins over fluff opposition.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion said it himself that Kell Brook lacked the power for the middleweight division after he broke him down and stopped him in the 5th round last Saturday night at the O2 arena in London, England. I believe that Golovkin was telling the truth. The difference between the punching power and the weight of the shots of the two fighters was significant.
Brook could not slow Golovkin down with his shots because he lacked the power on them to do any damage. Brook now says he plans on moving down to the junior middleweight division because he feels like he’ll be able compete against guys at 154. I’m not sure that he can though.
I’ve seen all the top fighters at 154, and I don’t think that Brook has the power, size or the boxing skills to be a major player at junior middleweight. Here are the top fighters at 154: Jermell Charlo, Miguel Cotto, Saul Canelo Alvarez, Demetrius Andrade, Erislandy Lara, Jermall Charlo, Liam Williams and Julian Williams. Most of those guys are big enough and powerful enough to fight at middleweight. These are fighters that rehydrate into their 170s just like Golovkin does, yet they choose to fight at junior middleweight.
There’s not much difference between the power of these guys and Golovkin. They may not hit as hard, but they’re powerful enough to create a lot of problems for a pumped up welterweight like Brook. I would rate Brook well below the power of those fighters.
By Michael Montero: Saturday September 10th featured three signature fights between six fighters representing five different countries. Four of these combatants brought undefeated professional careers into the ring with them; two “0’s” had to go.Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, put his middleweight titles on the line against Kell “Special K” Brook, of England, inside London’s O2 Arena before a raucous sellout crowd.
By Scott Gilfoid: Despite getting stopped in the 5th round and suffering a broken right eye socket in the loss to Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, welterweight Kell Brook says he wants to fight the winner of this Saturday’s match between WBO junior middleweight champion Liam Smith and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) feels like the 154lb division will be a better one for him, and that he’ll do better in this weight class than he showed against the unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC 160lb champion Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs). Indeed, Brook thinks he can dominate the division, which is hard to believe because the guys in that division punch very hard.
By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) won’t have any problems getting his unification fight against World Boxing Organization 160lb champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs), because Saunders created a video today calling Golovkin out for his next fight. Saunders, 26, saw Golovkin’s fight against the pumped up welterweight Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) last night, and he wasn’t all that impressed with what he saw from GGG. Saunders says he saw flaws in his game that he thinks he can take advantage of, and he DEFINITELY wants to fight Golovkin next.
