Golovkin vs. Brook

By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) gave it his best shot last Saturday night against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), but at the end of the night after five rounds, Brook’s right eye socket was broken from the force of one of the Kazakhstan fighter’s punches, causing the fight to be halted. However, the loss hasn’t dissuaded Brook from holding out hope that a rematch could take place at some point down the road in the future.

While you can’t rule out a second fight taking place between Golovkin and Brook at some point in the distant future, it’s not likely to occur. Brook and Golovkin will both need to keep winning for a second fight to be worthwhile for the bpxing public to see. Given the results of their fight last Saturday, I don’t know if a second fight between Golovkin and Brook would interest the fans.

”Great fight Gennady much respect to you and good luck, maybe we’ll dance again one day who knows 👊🏼” said Brook to Golovkin via his social media site.

Brook will need to find some punching power and more aggressiveness for him to find success at 154 so that he can make a case for him facing Golovkin again. The way I see it, Brook is going to take loss after loss at 154, and wind up with his tail between his legs heading back down to 147. That’s the way I see it going. I cannot for the life of me see Brook doing well in the junior middleweight division against all the huge punchers in that weight class.

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By Gerardo Granados: Since the night that the feared, undefeated middleweight Champion of the World WBC-WBA-IBF-IBO Gennady Golovkin did an easy job out of a brave welterweight belt holder Kell Brook, I have read and heard many comments about how Golovkin was “exposed” or how “vulnerable” he is. I think it is all nonsense.

Last Saturday night it surprised me to see how Golovkin was defensively irresponsible, even if Brook is a welter with a respectable punching power at that weight. Just as GGG stated he was there to break Brook and not to box. Which I did like but I expected him to use his jab and control the first rounds just as he did against David Lemieux. Instead, Golovkin chose not to try to outbox Brook and simply focus on ripping him apart. He hurt him during the first round, broke his eye orbital bone at the second, dropped him on the third (it as a knockdown) and finally on the fifth round Brook´s corner desperately threw the towel to stop the pounding.

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By Jermill Pennington: What I find fascinating in the aftermath of the demolition of Kell Brook at the hands of Gennady Golovkin is the proverbial elephant in the room, was Golovkin exposed? Already the most polarizing man in boxing Saturday’s performance vs. Kell Brook has only widened the gap in opinion of Golovkin amongst fans.

On one hand you have Golovkin supporters who say “how can a guy be exposed after finishing off a good fighter in five rounds?” Some supporters of Golovkin have gone as far to say that Golovkin intentionally looked lack luster in order to lure fighters in to thinking he’s now beatable. Then you have the detractors, who now stand from the rooftops saying “see, I told you he wasn’t that good.”

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By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like the three judges were a little off with their scoring for the Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook fight last Saturday night, considering that CompuBox’s final punch stats don’t reflect what the judges were seeing in there. The judges had the Golovkin-Brook fight scored as follows: 39-37, 38-38 and 38-38. So basically we’ve got two judges scoring the fight dead even through four rounds and another judge giving the fight to Brook by three rounds to one score.

According to CompuBox, Golovkin out-landed Brook overall in the fight in connecting on 133 of 301 punches for a connect percentage of 44.2. Brook landed 85 of 261 shots for a connect percentage of 32.6. So despite the fact that Golovkin out-landed Brook by 48 more punches, the judges still had Brook either even or beating Golovkin.

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By Rishad Marquardt: When Amir Khan fought Canelo Alvarez, the story before the fight was a simple one; speed versus power. Khan had one, Canelo had the other. This was the defining talking point and the fight would seemingly be decided on which of these factors would matter more. And, in the end, it was. This was not the case, however, with the Golovkin-Brook fight. Mainly because neither Brook nor Golovkin are defined by a single overriding attribute.

Going into the fight, the common understanding was that they were both all-round, excellent, undefeated champions, albeit native to two different weight classes. The Khan fight all depended on Khan being able to stay away from Canelo’s power punches. If he got hit by even a single of Canelo’s big shots, the fight would be over. If he managed to escape un-hit, there was a good chance his speed would get the better of the Mexican and a points victory wouldn’t be an unreasonable outcome.

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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.

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