Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook

Nelson Felt Golovkin Looked Bad: 'I Heard He Started Camp Late!' - Boxing News

The Nelson and Hearn stuff I didnt see, I dont pay much attention to that only as far as from what I saw from press pics, Golovkin didnt look a million dollars in them so I agree in part.

I was looking at another trainers twitter feed who's at the fight and he made similar comments that he didnt look great and the word is he isnt well.

Sky Sports are now saying GGG is ill.

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GGG has fought who he can fight at 160. Jacobs, Eubank Jr., Quillin, N'Dam, Saunders, Sturm, Canelo, even Barker, have declined fights against him.

I think GGG has underrated boxing ability. I know it seems impossible to underrate a guy, who is overrated by the masses, but people seem to think of him as brute puncher, and he appears a lot more than that to me. I don't think you have 300 amateur fights and not know how to box. Remember he out-boxed Dirrell and knocked out Bute in the amateurs.

I hope this fight brings out some of that boxing ability, we don't always see. Adam Booth did a good job describing his style is that he's a pressure-fighting counter puncher, which Booth said is the most dangers type to fight because they pressure you into thinking you have to throw a punch and then counter it, and what makes GGG so dangerous is that he can punch like a mule.

I have felt for a while that Brook was the best welterweight in the world, post the Manny/Floyd era. I think the size is an issue in the sense that it would have been better if Brook had a fight or two at 160 before the GGG fight. But, Brook has fought above the welterweight limit 10 or so times, even if his most recent fight was at 147, and I think he had outgrown 147 - it was just a matter of time until he moved up. When I saw them side-by-side today in photos, they didn't appear that different in size. However, middleweight is clearly GGG's natural weight, and he has to be more comfortable there than Brook, who has never fought there.

At the end of the day, this is the best welter in the world, who had grown out of welterweight, against the best middle in the world. That's an exciting match-up to me.

I favor GGG to lose a round or two early and then figure Brook out and dominate the fight going forward. However, I wouldn't be too surprised with an upset in a bad decision or something if it goes the distance.

I wonder from our British posters - is GGG well known in the UK? Will he have fans at the stadium on Saturday? Or will it be a pro-Brook crowd?

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I dont think it will go the distance unless GGG wants rounds under his belt and maybe also make himself look more normal and beatable to some so he gets future fights; cause all those guys you mentioned will be watching it thinking one way or the other and his immediate future relies on them.

I thought he looked ill too, they cut his media commitments short. I also thought he looked a bit fed up all week

I haven't seen any videos of it


ive seen pics on skysports.com tho and he looks fine to me


if he is ill or theres a problem do think he might try and end it early?

Golovkin spent the whole weigh-in looking miserable as fuck, or he wants to kill someone.

Brook - 159.4
GGG - 158.9

Pro Brook crowd.

The pictures make GGG look frail by comparison but really Kel just came in looking like a re-hydrated welterweight. Tomorrow GGG will (obviously) look much bigger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=xOaNNfAVmwc

3G looked fine today compared to yesterday when he def did look drained.
Weird how he did no media interviews and fucked off straight after the weigh in, he never does that ever. He did look bored and moody again like I've never seen him.
Something is either not good with him which they're keeping secret or his in a serious killer mood and wants too really make a devastating statement in his first UK fight.
I think the latter and Brook is getting put too sleep.
Theres also big rumours 3G started training late and did too much hard work in to short a time.
Could of course just be Johnny Nelson trying to give his mate any mental advantage he can ;)

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Sky Sports are now saying GGG is ill.

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I'm not into all this "Tub thumping " usually , but I have to admit GGG did look drained and unwell.
I hate this, because now , if Brook wins , there's a question mark. Of Course , he could just KO Brook in the 1st, who fucking knows, but it's always shit when there's an excuse ready (I'm not saying GGG's camp would use it btw) but it just leaves an element of doubt about the whole thing.

I hope the event doesn't have that crappy, smoky gray lighting like they usually have for overseas fights.

The only place that I am hearing about GGG being ill, looking ill, and just generally not looking up for it seems to be coming from people who have a vested interest in sky

I reckon it's a ploy to sell more PPV's, everyone knows that GGG is the overwhelming favourite so why bother buying it, all of a sudden GGG looks vulnerable, he's ill, he hasn't trained hard enough, he started training too late etc

'omg is GGG vulnerable, could there be an upset? I should buy this just in case, I'd hate to miss an upset like that'

job done

GGG has fought loads of bums and has never had a problem getting himself motivated, Brook (even though 2 divisions below) is far from a bum, I doubt that his training camp has been anything other than perfect

I haven't followed a lot of the press stuff, but GGG looked the same as he always has at the weigh in to me, and it would make sense to play almost any angle up a bit last minute for salesmanship.

I have to admit, I have said it's all Sky bull shit but that is purely because I despise Sky

I haven't seen any of the weigh ins or anything so I can form my opinion based only on the text I read on this forum...Eddie Hearn is a cunt though

Really looking forward to the fight, PPV and the missus exiled. Don't want any Klit style 20 minute walk ons with shit videos and music, just get it on. I hope these two are man enough to do just what they're paid for and have a great contest, may the best man win.

Just been speaking to my neighbour the convo went like this

neighbour - you watching Kell Brook get knocked out tonight
me - yeah, I've had a bet on GGG to KO him between the 7th and 9th
N - will it fuck go that far, Golovkin is a beast, he's gunna knock Brook out in before the 4th round
M - have you ever watched GGG
N - yeah I watched some of his knockouts on youtube this morning

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Just been speaking to my neighbour the convo went like this

neighbour - you watching Kell Brook get knocked out tonight
me - yeah, I've had a bet on GGG to KO him between the 7th and 9th
N - will it fuck go that far, Golovkin is a beast, he's gunna knock Brook out in before the 4th round
M - have you ever watched GGG
N - yeah I watched some of his knockouts on youtube this morning

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Your neighbour could be right.

He could be but it's just the "I've watched a 3 minute video on youtube and now I'm am expert" mentality that does my head in.

The bloke does my head in when it comes to sports, even if you agree 100% with him he starts shouting and bawling about how right he is.

Well done Connor Benn, just won me 20 quid, I had a fiver on him to win in th second

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Well done Connor Benn, just won me 20 quid, I had a fiver on him to win in th second

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He looked pretty good tonight for his 4th pro fight

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Well done Connor Benn, just won me 20 quid, I had a fiver on him to win in th second

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He looked pretty good tonight for his 4th pro fight

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Yeah he definitely looked more measured and his punches are looking better, it's still too early to judge him and I still don't think he should be on these PPV cards yet.

Smith just put him down with a lovely body shot

I haven't beeen paying much attention to this fight, I've been perfecting my order from pizza hut so that has taken all my attention

These cards frustrate the shit out of me

I like Townend, I've stuck a fiver on him to win here

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I like Townend, I've stuck a fiver on him to win here

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Think I might have backed the wrong horse here, Townend is taking some solid shots, lost the first round but there is a long way to go yet

If you purchased tickets to watch a fight like this live would you just rock up before the main event or would you get there early doors and watch every fight?
for the amount that people pay for tickets I know that I would be there when the doors opened, I can't understand why people only turn up for the main event

well Townend has lost the first 4 rounds, Ward is looking pretty good but Townends hands have been really low a lot of the time and he's there to be hit.

Townend looks out on his feet, spirit has gone, he looks broken, stoppage on the cards in the next round me thinks

He's coming back out for the 8th, Ward has looked good but I agree with the commentators, Townend has made him look good

ref's stopped it as I'm typing.

Well done Ward, I was expecting more from Townend there.

I hope they interview him, if I remember correctly he is the most Northern fucker that has ever existed

Ward was impressive for once. Good win.

I fucked up tonight, thought to myself that I would drink like a normal human being and just got myself 8 little bottles, just had a look in the fridge, I've only got 3 left, bit of a shitter that is

Was that Rocky Fielding that was standing in front of Murray then? haven't heard from him for a while, don't think I've seen him since he took that hammering from Callum Smith

You don't sell 20,000 tickets to nerd boxing fans. The majority of people don't give a fuck about undercards

yeah but it's an expensive game to be shelling out that sort of money for a fight which at most will last 36 minutes

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Was that Rocky Fielding that was standing in front of Murray then? haven't heard from him for a while, don't think I've seen him since he took that hammering from Callum Smith

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Fielding has won at least one fight since that loss.

just checked BoxRec, your right he beat Rebrasse, only had the one fight since last November

I'd forgotten all about the Rebrasse fight, I remember watching it now.

This fight looks like it could be interesting, Casimero came out trying to throw big shots in the first round

Casimero is just being patient, he's waiting for a chance to decapitate Edwards

Edwards isn't throwing fuck all other than jabs, Casimero just isn't throwing fuck all

Is the other guy wearing stockings?

Nah he just has extremely pale legs

Edwards did well to stay on his feet after that uppercut