Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin Tested, Stops Kell Brook in Five Rounds

[Lords]

Give props to Brook for GGG looking bad. Brook was landing combinations at will, was landing his uppercut at will. People are quick to blame GGG but it was Brook who made him look bad.

[gmc_rfc_06]

Brook's corner were watching out for their guy and thats their job. The only problem I have with the stoppage is that Brook gets to talk BS.
Golovkin had no respect for Brook's power and was looking to end the fight early. He fought a sloppy fight because he had nothing to fear from Brook.
Brook's a WW Alvarez, a naturally bigger guy who can drop lots of weight for the weigh-in and rehydrate back up for the fight, giving him a size advantage in the ring.
Finally, man I can't stand the wanker Brit commentators.

The IBF rules state fighters can't weigh more than 10lbs above weigh-in weight.

Brook is no bigger than Thurman, Porter, Spence, etc...but he beats them all.

[Triple Genius]

Canelo will beat him.

Kell was way too small to pull it off, but he was making him miss and landing clean shots and combinations. That bum-rushing that GGG was able to use against a much smaller man to nullify his skills is not working against another skilled opponent who can match his physical strength.

I think he GGG fights this way vs Canelo he'd lose but I think GGG respects Canelo's power and would use more jabs. He was just going for the knockout here when his strength is really slowly breaking dudes down

[doninlouisiana]

GGG broke his eye socket, ROUND 5 DESTROYED. NEXXXTTTTTTTTTT.

This ^. Brook has balls of steel taking this fight, too bad some of the top MW's had the same nerve. Maybe Saunders saw enough weakness to possibly step up next?

[Simurgh]

GGG looked terrible. He was sloppy and fought rushed. I think he's overrated. Size is what beat Brook. Kell has better skills than Golovkin. Highly unimpressed with the "great"GGG.

I agree he looked much worse than usual. He was rushing - very atypical of him. Maybe because he was under notion he is fighting a welterweight.

But to say GGG beat him only because of size is totally off. Brook would beat pretty much all MW bar GGG with the fight he gave tonight. There is not many fighters who would be able to take the punches Brook was landing.

I pick him to beat Canelo at 154.

[Pain~Lucy]

Canelo will beat him.

Kell was way too small to pull it off, but he was making him miss and landing clean shots and combinations. That bum-rushing that GGG was able to use against a much smaller man to nullify his skills is not working against another skilled opponent who can match his physical strength.

he didnt bum-rush lemieux though and check my sig

[elfag]

GGG was "tested"?


are you ****ing kidding me, the author is a joke and doesnt know chit about boxing. No wonder "boxing clever" doesnt use his real name, hes an embarrassment to boxing journalists the world over.

I guess stopping a welterweight two divisions smaller than you in 5 rounds is called being "tested"

[basic_bounty]

This was no test for GGG. GGG came out to fight promising a big drama show and he did. GGG treated Brook with disregard and like a welterweight that he is and took Brooks shots to make it a big drama show. If GGG wanted to box Brook like he did against Lemieux he would have but it would've been boring until GGG knocked Brook the eff out after boxing him. Brook needs to stop yapping about how he could have carried on and fight. No he can't. Brook was not match and would have been seriously hurt if not for the towel.

[MEXfistology]

let's see if brook will lend canelo his balls

[Obliterator]

hahaha

A lot of you guys need to understand that boxing is a whole lot more than a skill sport.

What if...this or that on Golovkin?

I mean as soon as Kell threw his first jab at Golovkin; Golovkin literally threw every game plan conceivable out the window and just pounced on him with absolutely no regard for anything.

Says it post fight-- Kell isn't a middleweight.
As in, none of those punches had him worried in the slightest.

12 rounds of endurance, 12 rounds of taking a shot, 12 rounds of skills, strength etc.
12 rounds
not 2! It wasn't even a close fight tbh, guy was a couple of rounds away from death.

Seriously! GGG looked like he was in for a fun night. Just compare this performance against the Lemieux fight. Pretty obvious GGG didn't take him serious.