I wouldnt be sure on either winning but Golovkin wouldnt win easy. Some would say he didnt win easy last night and Eubank would in my opinion do a similar job on Brook, maybe better given that he lets his hands go more.
Im dissapointed Eubank is teading water wasting time with another British title fight. Although he thinks hes ready for the elite id like to see him fight Jacobs or Lemieux. Someone that will offer a bit of danger.
I'd venture to say Jr. would get it worse than Brook. It seems like there's no way on the internet this morning to give Brook credit without discrediting GGG or vice versa for most people, but i'm going to take a shot at it.
Brook did an amazing job. First by design and then as the fight came to a finish, by desperation. Fast hard combos with an extra 15 pounds of muscle on him. He avoid many wide shots and never missed an opportunity at a counter after a wide miss. Hoping to get some respect that stopped the bum rush. They say the cornered animal is the most dangerous. The stoppage by the corner was a dignity call. Kellerman tweeted that roy called it in between rounds that brook was giving up. His corner throwing in the towel was a way to set up brook for the courageous "im a warrior, go out on my shield" protest... but you have to agree that there was no need for brook to take any more damage that could change him when he's still got the skills to be the tops in lower division.
As for GGG, I can't say that there was validation to the illness theory as they neared the weigh in/ fight. He did look a little off and if he was sick, i doubt we would have gotten an admission before the fight. After the fight maybe, but probably from Sanchez and not GGG. I do think in the future he will fly over with more lead time to get adjusted than just a week... but for this fight if he claims to be 100%, he's essentially relinquished his rights to any excuses. That being said, so many people claiming GGG was "exposed" seem to be overlooking the fact that he was hardly trying to look like a surgeon out there. There was no picking his punches or using any ring generalship to corral brook and dissect him in a corner. It came off as more of a "im hungover and not really feelin this sh*t... Lets just bang it out so I can move the hell on..." kind of performance more than the "Big drama fight" he says he was going for. Still kudos for doing what he had to do. I'm sure with the drag in trying to find an opponent, fight abroad etc, maybe he kind of felt that way like more trouble than it might have been worth... but I'm also sure that trying to outbox a slick "cutie" from 2 divisions down that's got the speed advantage and stylistic advantage on you was probably not on his mind from the beginning. Especially after Canelos destruction of Khan. It could have been, but after the first shots were exchanged, it was too easy to go for the most direct route. If brooks firepower bothered GGG, and an adjustment was required... it would have been made and he would have started working off multiple jabs, punched for more angles and cut off the ring better.
So with Jr. being a more natural middleweight of considerable size, I think the threat posed to GGG would call for a more strategic and measured attack that exposes him less and increases his accuracy. Hence it would look more like lemieux than brook.
They want your @$$ beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement, excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and tear your @$$ down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy.
Roy Jones, Jr. "What I've Learned," Esquire 2003
Surprisingly all the brave contender's now want a go LOL.
BJS now feels he can beat GGG joke has Brook given them hope.?
Was it a bad day at the office for the Champ, or was Kell a lot better than he expected.!
I was pissed off with the crowd booing at the end of the fight.
Many pissed up heroes in the crowd nothing new, Dom was right to save his fighter from injury well done.
Kell can come again but I feel at light middle , as for GGG let's see them step up to the plate saying and doing are to different things.!
Jr. Has no head movement whatsoever, certainly nowhere near as much as Brook. And as for this "upper body movement ", that's a different thing and it won't stop him getting KTFO. In his only "decent level" fight so far against Saunders, he lost the first 6 rounds because he had no answer to Saunders's movement and Saunders was hitting him fairly easily. In the next 6 rounds, he won about 4 of those, certainly no more out of desperation and Saunders's poor stamina.
Neither of those scenario will help him against GGG. He's too easy to hit and he doesn't hit hard enough to deter GGG from walking him down. The only thing that will keep Eubank in the fight for a bit longer is his seriously good conditioning, but getting hit harder than you've ever been hit before takes that out of you as well.
I would rather GGG tells Eubank to fuck off and fights Jacobs or Degale. Although I seriously doubt Degale gets in the ring with him.
Eubank can carry on fighting British level and maybe end up along with Saunders , conning the British public a bit more with a meaningless rematch.
Just found out I have the undercard automatically recorded which was on sky mix channel which I did not know existed.
Conner Benn looks better than the first time I saw him. He was taking his time and looked a better puncher.
Smith looked flabby but landed a good body shots to stop his opponent.
Martin Joe Ward looked good until the channel got encrypted.
Well, I sort of got bits right. GGG just swarmed Brook (note spelling) and walked through everything he threw. It's true that Kell tagged Golovkin a few times, but it was like blowing peas at a tank. I really rate Golovkins footwork, he just cut the ring right down and didn't give Brook any room to rest or breathe.
By the fourth, Brook was getting a real pasting. There was no point letting him take more punishment (those who say different shouldn't call themselves boxing fans. If you want to see someone get executed in the ring, it should cost more than £19.95)
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why are animals made of meat ?
Conner Benn certainly stood back and picked his punches much like his last televised fight, he seems to have calmed down a lot, still very very early days for the kid so I try not to say too much about him, he should be fighting in York hall at best rather than a PPV in the O2
Smith...not even worth talking about, he may have looked flabby (I thought the same) but I don't put a napkin on to eat a sausage sandwich either
Can we all at least admit GGGs defense is awful because he has 0 head movement or do we deny the obvious because GGG![]()
GGG has the best head movement in boxing, he has just decided not to use it until he is in a big drama show.
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