By Marcus Richardson: In an interview, Chris Eubank Jr. really tears into promoter Eddie Hearn over the battering Kell Brook took last year when he moved up in weight to challenge IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin in in London.
By Dan Ambrose: Kell Brook is still taking credit for Daniel Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) giving middleweight world champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) problems last Saturday night in their fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. For boxing fans who don’t remember, Golovkin beat Brook by a 5th round TKO after the British fighter’s trainer Dominic Ingle tossed in the towel during the 5th when he quit throwing punches and was taking heavy punishment.
By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) suffered a bad eye injury in his 5th round TKO loss to middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) on September 10 in their fight on Sky Box Office PPV and HBO. Brook was offered the fight by his promoter Eddie Hearn after Chris Eubank Jr. wouldn’t bite on the deal.
Agreeing to the deal gave the 30-year-old Brook his biggest payday of his career, as well making him known to many casual boxing fans that had never heard of him before. However, Brook’s right eye socket was broken by a left hook from GGG early in the 1st round, and the injury eventually caused the fight to be halted by his trainer Dominic Ingle in round 5.
By Scott Gilfoid: The Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. Kell Brook fight from last September was the reason why former eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao decided to come out of retirement and resume his boxing career. Pacquiao says he normally doesn’t watch fights, but in this case he decided to see the Golovkin-Brook contest.
Pacquiao says he saw things from that fight that he felt that the 30-year-old Brook should have been doing for him to have a chance against the hard hitting Triple G. Pacquiao specifically felt that Brook should have countered more rather than trying to slug with Golovkin.
By Eric Baldwin: Manny Pacquiao says he liked the recent fight between welterweight Kell brook and IBF/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin last September. Pacquiao said that Golovkin was simply too strong for Brook.
Unlike some of the other fighters that are saying that Golovkin should move up in weight, Pacquiao says it’s up to Golovkin if he wants to move up to light heavyweight to fight bigger guys.
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan thinks welterweight Kell “Special K” Brook used the wrong game plan for his fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in their fight on September 10 in London, England. Khan suspects that Brook, 30, made up his mind that he couldn’t win the fight against Golovkin before he even stepped foot into the ring, so he just went out looking to war with Golovkin to go out in a blasé of glory.
Khan believes that Brook just went there for a payday against Golovkin, and not to try and win the fight. Khan saw the fight as a win-win situation for Brook, because he would get a big payday fighting Golovkin, and he would get a lot of credit from boxing fans if he brawled with him. However, Khan thinks that Brook would have stood a better chance if he’d boxed him, and used his boxing skills rather than standing and slugging.
By Scott Gilfoid: Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. is convinced that welterweight Kell Brook (36-1, 25 Kos) “exposed” IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) in their match on September 10 last month at the O2 Arena in London, England.
(Above photo showing Kell Brook having a bad night at the office in round three against Gennady Golovkin)
Mayweather somehow feels that Brook came out ahead despite him getting stopped in the 5th round. I’m not too sure how Mayweather thinks Brook did a great job in the fight, when he was pummeled and stopped in the 5th round. Brook was little more than a punching bag for Golovkin from rounds three until the bitter end in the 5th.
By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he didn’t like the way welterweight Kell Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle stepped in and threw in the towel in the 5th round in the Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fight last September. Mayweather says it looked “like a fix” the way Ingle tossed the towel in suddenly in the 5th.
Brook was still standing at the time, trying to make Golovkin miss with his power shots. Mayweather probably thought it looked weird because Brook was unhurt other than his right eye, which he dabbed at earlier in the round.
By Scott Gilfoid: There seems to be a disagreement with fans of Kell Brook about how well he did in his 5th round knockout loss to middleweight world champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and with some of the more knowledgeable boxing experts like promoter Bob Arum. While Brook’s fans think he was doing a swell job in the first four rounds against Triple G and leading by a three rounds to one scoring going into the 5th, Arum says Brook was little more than a punching bag for Golovkin once he realized that he couldn’t punch.
Arum says the fight wasn’t a real fight because of Brook not having the power to make Golovkin respect him. I have to agree with that. Brook looked like an arm puncher in the ring in that fight, and many of his shots were thrown with him leaping into the air, without him setting his feet like the talented fighters do. In other words, Brook undermined his own power by not setting his feet when throwing his shots.
By Adam Godfrey: IBF Welterweight champion Kell Brook underwent surgery last week to reverse the damage caused to his right eye socket during his TKO loss to Middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin on September 10th. Surgery was presumably delayed for two weeks to ensure the swelling had abated sufficiently for the surgeon to carry out the operation, which, according to Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle, involved told The Star:
“…The surgeon-who was called Mohammed Ali, believe it or not- going up through his gums, his front teeth, moving an eye to one side and then sorting out the fracture”.