If Brook never fought GGG..
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
If this is the end of Brooks career just how many more paydays would he have achieved if he stayed at 147.
Brook made alot of money after the GGG clash, but that left him with a huge mental scar.
With both eyes damaged..I hope the money he made tonight will cover him for the potential 4-5 years he had left in the game.
Does he take 6 - 12 months out and risk coming back as a light middleweight or just get a massive payday with Khan?
Taking that knee must have been very hard for him tonight..
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Why would it be the end? His right eye seemed fine, reason to believe the left can be fixed up as well.
There are options for Kell if he wants them. I'm not sure how good the options are though. I mean, he can make a lot of money vs Khan, but it doesn't do anything for his standing. And most of the guys at 54 will have enormous reach advantages.
His decision though. The guy seems a class act.
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Brook had his moments in the fight..shame he couldn't have lasted one more round.
Cotto would destroy those eye sockets at 154.
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Hindsight does suggest fighting GGG was a bit silly. At least work your way up through the weights and acclimatise yourself incrementally. GGG is one of the hardest punchers in the sport. We all thought it was a strange matchup that didn't really prove anything and it ended up with a serious injury. I struggle to see the sense in doing that. Okay it was a big pay day, but if you have several years of good fighting in you why bother doing it? Go up the weights naturally and maybe even catch GGG struggling for the weight at 38 or something. It was an odd one like Khan/Canelo. No need for it IMO.
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Hindsight does suggest fighting GGG was a bit silly. At least work your way up through the weights and acclimatise yourself incrementally. GGG is one of the hardest punchers in the sport. We all thought it was a strange matchup that didn't really prove anything and it ended up with a serious injury. I struggle to see the sense in doing that. Okay it was a big pay day, but if you have several years of good fighting in you why bother doing it? Go up the weights naturally and maybe even catch GGG struggling for the weight at 38 or something. It was an odd one like Khan/Canelo. No need for it IMO.
Completely agree.
All that rubbish bellew was saying about no one will want to fight Brook after this...really?!
It's either Khan or Cotto for Brook now for that pension payday.
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It is a joke that they will try and sell Brook v Khan now when both are damaged good coming from losses and severe lack of confidence.
All the ingredients for a classic Sky PPV fight. No way will it be at Wembley now in front of 90,000 fans.
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I'm not sure.
OK, so he was getting a bad beating from GGG by the end, but Brook looked pretty good against Spence to me. Maybe he just ran into a very very good fighter at welterweight, which could have happened whether or not he fought Golovkin.
It looked to me like Brook cut weight very well for this fight. He has always been too big for welter, and I remember him gassing out at halfway in several fights before GGG.
i don't think moving up in weight and losing harmed his career, it didn't do Ray Robinson too much legacy damage. It was also a different eye, so nothing to do with the old injury. Just unlucky.
If the GGG injury was fixed so well that it stood up to Spence for 11 rounds, it's possible that the new injury could be fixed just as well?
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Well with hindsight maybe the GGG flight did damage Brook more than we first thought. But don't forget, these guys are trying to make as much money as they possibly can . Brook would've neede 2, maybe 3 unification fights to earn the money he did against GGG .
Who's to say he wouldn't have got beat by Spence anyway?(and he probably would've got beat) and then the earning potential goes down.
It could be the end for Brook (with the exception of a fight I don't want to see happen with Khan,) but his earnings potential couldn't have been surpassed.
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Who cares how much money Brook makes/made? Seriously, since when did anyone care about what fighters of the past were making per fight? This is the Floyd disease that has infected modern fans/kids.
Brook has just fought in back-to-back PPVs, one packing out the O2 the other 25,000 in a football stadium. He's funking minted. He's a 30-year-old man that, if sensible, can spend the rest of his days doing whatever he wants when he wants without ever worrying about a roof over his head, a motor, his kids private school fees and what his missus racks up on her bank card.
The Khan fight can't happen with both of them coming off KO losses. And it wouldn't sell Wembley out regardless, not before, not now, not ever. Khan is utterly delusional about his appeal outside the muslim community and Brook is not a crossover star.
For some perspective - Brook-Spence was predicted to hit around 250,000 buys. Bellew-Haye did 750,000. AJ did 450,000 with Molina and Martin. There's a huge difference between what excites serious boxing fans and "casuals"
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Who cares how much money Brook makes/made? Seriously, since when did anyone care about what fighters of the past were making per fight? This is the Floyd disease that has infected modern fans/kids.Brook has just fought in back-to-back PPVs, one packing out the O2 the other 25,000 in a football stadium. He's funking minted. He's a 30-year-old man that, if sensible, can spend the rest of his days doing whatever he wants when he wants without ever worrying about a roof over his head, a motor, his kids private school fees and what his missus racks up on her bank card. The Khan fight can't happen with both of them coming off KO losses. And it wouldn't sell Wembley out regardless, not before, not now, not ever. Khan is utterly delusional about his appeal outside the muslim community and Brook is not a crossover star.For some perspective - Brook-Spence was predicted to hit around 250,000 buys. Bellew-Haye did 750,000. AJ did 450,000 with Molina and Martin. There's a huge difference between what excites serious boxing fans and "casuals"
That's depressing that Bellew vs Haye did that many buys. Funny to think back to Haye's barking of what he would do to Joshua. He's get murdered!
After reading this post I changed my mind about Brook-Khan and realized that was a bad attempt at humor but seriously considering the damage he should move on as depicted in American westerns bu riding into the sunset. Putting his ego in his back pocket should be the start because he doesn't have a thing to prove. IMO.
