Kell Brook has been so poorly managed/matched through his career.

Wasn't Eubank Jr supposed to fight GGG back in 2016. He lost his pen and was having 2nd thoughts, and kell brook wasted no time and stepped up, though I am not entirely sure if eddie hearn pressured kell into it, or did kell truly wanted it.

Good post. Personally, I'm not too much against his fight with Golovkin. He took a beating, yeah, but it wasn't career ending. The bigger issue was going back down to 147 only 9 months later. Dude looked huge against Golovkin, he weighted like 176? You don't just lose ~15-20 lbs of muscle without negative aftereffects. Then he got beat up by Spence for 11 rounds. He should have taken the Golovkin fight, then fought a journeyman at 154 in a year, then went for a world title shot against like Lara about ~15-16 months after Golovkin fight. Similar thing that Mikey should do. If that dude tries to immediately go back down to 135, he'll be an idiot.

Kell went through what Spence is going through now. None of the top fighters want anything to do with them. Kell had to move 2 divisions just to get a bite of the brightest lights. Lets see if Spence is also forced to move up in weight just to get a willing dance partner.

Pretty sure Brook held the IBF belt and Spence was the mandatory and that's why he ended up fighting Spence. Other wise, I don't know why he would have bothered at that time. On a personal level, what I am stating is that Eddie Hearn done a very bad job with Kell Brook. 'There was just no need for the Golovkin fight' since that fight Kell Brook has fell into depression, and sustained a injury which has effected how he trains, and also his confidence. 'Sometimes in boxing you have to jump at the big fights, but Kell Brook was not in that position! He was undefeated, had a world championship belt and? Just within himself as a man, was really confident about his work 'All of that has vanished now, and he seemed very irritated, desperate and lost'. Very bad promoting from Eddie Hearn 'That one decision has ruined Kell Brook's career'. 'The fight was not life changing money, Golovkin is not even a all-time great he? At that time he was just the fighter in which people where nutting over'. In some ways Deontay Wilder is in the same position as Kell Brook before he fought Golovkin, and Anthony Joshua is their Golovkin type fight 'A fight which could potentially end his career'. But team Wilder are well aware of the threat Anthony Joshua poses. 'They will take that fight when they have to'.

Brook isn't that good. He has one crappy win over Porter. Clinched his way to victory. What else has he done? Not one signature win.

It was going alright for him, up until the Golovkin fight. There was completely zero reason to make that fight 'Kell Brook had a WBC belt, and all he needed to do was carry on winning' eventually he would of landed some massive fights. Eddie Hearn is a great promoter, but he was bullied? By the mainstream lemmings into throwing Kell Brook in with Golovkin. 'That fight completely ruined kell Brook as a fighter, from a physical perspective and also psychologically'. Kell Brook would of been better off holding the WBC belt hostage, eventually the big fights would of come to him 'But instead he took a unnecessary risk in fighting Golovkin' It was a completely stupid fight. Pretty sure Brook held the IBF belt and Spence was the mandatory and that's why he ended up fighting Spence. Other wise, I don't know why he would have bothered at that time.

brook is basically European class fighter and not world class,, everyone who knows anything about boxing knows he was gifted the title when he got a decision against shawn porter, what has he achieved since???? basically he wants to be acknowledged as a world class fighter without taking meaningful fights...... And people give Brook too many props only because they hate Khan so much.

he spent too long going after khan. khan ducked but brooks revolved his whole career around that fight Yup. Khan always had options and more importantly, a large fanbase. A Kell Brook fight for him will always be a LAST resort and a cash-out last hurrah for Khan. For Brook, he centred his entire WW career on the Khan fight hoping it would materialise when he should have just moved up to 154 if he was struggling so much. Eddie Hearn advised him quite badly on that one.

Yet he moved up to 160 and fought someone nobody wanted to fight at the time. You make a ton of sense there, pal. And killed his career in the process. Genius move.

It was going alright for him, up until the Golovkin fight. There was completely zero reason to make that fight 'Kell Brook had a WBC belt, and all he needed to do was carry on winning' eventually he would of landed some massive fights. Eddie Hearn is a great promoter, but he was bullied? By the mainstream lemmings into throwing Kell Brook in with Golovkin. 'That fight completely ruined kell Brook as a fighter, from a physical perspective and also psychologically'. Kell Brook would of been better off holding the WBC belt hostage, eventually the big fights would of come to him 'But instead he took a unnecessary risk in fighting Golovkin' It was a completely stupid fight.

Should have took more challenges after beating porter. He really disappointed everyone with his matchmaking after he got the belt, he could have really done better but he held it hostage and fought some bums. Then it was almost a case of trying to make up for the bad matchmaking and bums by fighting ggg. That and wanting to outdo khan and canelo. Instead of begging for a khan fight and trying to preserve his 0 and fighting bums he should have fought some top fighters, there was plenty of opportunity. He had a belt, there must have been plenty decent welters willing to dance.

brook is basically European class fighter and not world class,, everyone who knows anything about boxing knows he was gifted the title when he got a decision against shawn porter, what has he achieved since???? basically he wants to be acknowledged as a world class fighter without taking meaningful fights......

he was managed like that to stay undefeated so kooks would think he was good. Once the game was up it didnt matter.

Brook ruined his own career. He's the one who chose not to fight a lot of top names. Could have fought Bradley for a title but turned it down to fight a nobody in a IBF eliminator. Alexander, Vargas, Rios, Chavez, Hurd, Charlo are just a few names he could have fought and chose not to. Brook talks a big name and Hearn mentions big names but end up fighting nobodies.

It is bad. Dang. I feel bad for this guy. 5-10 years ago this guy looked super, super talented. Not talking hype, but genuinely talented. I feel that he was a victim of Anthony Joshua's success. Kell was a beast and switched from Frank Warren to Eddie Hearn. Everyone in Britain was in agreement that he was a World champion in the making. He was the best fighter in the Matchroom stable. But as soon as AJ came along he took a backseat, and getting him his shot became less of a priority. From 2014, it's as though Brook became more of a side quest for Matchroom. When he won that IBF title against Shawn Porter, he finally reached the status that the majority had been expecting for years. It was more of a "what took so long?" than anything else. From there he should have pushed on and looked for the big fights, or moved up to Super Welterweight. At least should have established himself Stateside. But again, at a time when AJ was blasting through journeymen, and capturing the IBF title off Charles Martin, Brook fought some of the softest opposition available, on small shows with poor supporting cards. The best card he fought on also had Selby-Gradovich and Linares-Mitchell, but Brook's opponent was Frankie Gavin! Kell had been struggling to make the weight since before the first Carson Jones fight, it was no secret. He should have moved up soon after capturing the World title. But fighting Gennady Golovkin, at Middleweight was career suicide. I still cannot fathom why Eddie Hearn fed Brook to Golovkin. It is almost like he wanted rid of him. At 30 years old, 36-0 (25 KO), the IBF World Welterweight champion, Brook should have been looking to step up to Super Welterweight/Light Middleweight and position himself for a title shot there. At the time Jermell Charlo held the WBC, Jermall Charlo the IBF, Liam Smith the WBO, and Erislandy Lara the WBA World. Would have made more sense having Canelo vs. GGG then, and Brook vs. Smith. But instead we got Canelo vs. Smith and GGG vs. Brook. Brook shouldn't have fought GGG, no other way to say it. Fighting Errol Spence 9 months later, in his comeback fight, fresh off surgery to fix a broke eye socket, in a division 13lb below his last fight, when he'd struggled to make that weight for years, again another WTF moment. Spence was pretty unknown in the UK, but still, Brook had no business returning to Welterweight after moving up to Middleweight. In interviews Hearn would say "Well... if he wants to go back to Welterweight, what can I do?" Smirking all the while. After almost getting retired by GGG in a fight he never should have took, he should have taken a year out, vacated his IBF belt, and looked to come back at Super Welter. Not rush back against a young killer like Spence at a weight he can barely make. Madness. Anyway, I'm rambling. Brook is shot now and took life-altering damage in both of those fights. When he retires as a one-time Welterweight champion of the World, it almost feels like he didn't fulfill his potential. Seeing him flatten Amir Khan was also a mouth-watering prospect, but even that now looks like it won't happen. At this point there's no guarentee he'd beat Khan if they end up fighting. It really is a shame, because a lot of people had great expectations when it came to Kell Brook. Hearn didn't do shieet to Brook. Brook was ruined by his own obsession over Amir Khan. The day after Canelo vs Khan was announced Brook practically ran to the nearest reporter and held an interview in which he called put Gennady Golovkin, literally a day after Canelo vs Khan was announced. He was so obsessed with getting Khan's attention, outdoing Khan, and being better than Khan that he literally sold his soul for it. Okay not literally but you get what I'm saying. He also turned down the chance to unify titles with Jessie Vargas in order to fight some bum, Gavin I think it is. At that point he would have beaten Vargas and become the IBF/WBO unified champ. He would have been A-side of any negotiation at welterweight at that point (except maybe Manny). I'm sure he'd have schooled and possibly KOd Thurman (The Brook that fought Spence would have killed Thurman both in skill and power), so there he goes, another unfication. But Brook can't see past Amir Khan so he had to go and prove that he can also get KOd by a middleweight.

He stayed at WW because he wanted the Khan fight - a guy naturally smaller than him - to cash out. That speaks volumes about his mindset. Khan pursued the best out there Froch pursued the best out there Joshua is pursuing the best out there Kell wanted the easy match(es). Yet he moved up to 160 and fought someone nobody wanted to fight at the time. You make a ton of sense there, pal.

Was the FACE of Matchroom Boxing at one point and now he is reduced to fighting TBA on AJ Undercard He stayed loyal to Hearn but this sport is not Loyal to boxers AT ALL! Once a promoter find another money maker they will toss you away and focus on that new money maker that is what happened. AJ took over and Kell Brook is just not a Priority for Eddie Hearn anymore It is unfortunate! Also sucks that Eddie Hearn can't delivery Khan for him which is not Eddie fault his career is stuck in Neutral waiting for Khan. Khan is fighting Crawford, WTF is Kell doing? If I'm Khan I really wouldn't fight him because while you're busy fighting Crawford, he not doing anything, he just taking soft touches and waiting for Khan. He doesn't DESERVE the Khan fight at this point unless he fight at Top 10 5-10 Welterweight! Why Kell Brook vs Jessie Vargas not happening at least? :dunno:

Impossible, his promoter is Eddie Hearn

It is bad. Dang. I feel bad for this guy. 5-10 years ago this guy looked super, super talented. Not talking hype, but genuinely talented. I feel that he was a victim of Anthony Joshua's success. Kell was a beast and switched from Frank Warren to Eddie Hearn. Everyone in Britain was in agreement that he was a World champion in the making. He was the best fighter in the Matchroom stable. But as soon as AJ came along he took a backseat, and getting him his shot became less of a priority. From 2014, it's as though Brook became more of a side quest for Matchroom. When he won that IBF title against Shawn Porter, he finally reached the status that the majority had been expecting for years. It was more of a "what took so long?" than anything else. From there he should have pushed on and looked for the big fights, or moved up to Super Welterweight. At least should have established himself Stateside. But again, at a time when AJ was blasting through journeymen, and capturing the IBF title off Charles Martin, Brook fought some of the softest opposition available, on small shows with poor supporting cards. The best card he fought on also had Selby-Gradovich and Linares-Mitchell, but Brook's opponent was Frankie Gavin! Kell had been struggling to make the weight since before the first Carson Jones fight, it was no secret. He should have moved up soon after capturing the World title. But fighting Gennady Golovkin, at Middleweight was career suicide. I still cannot fathom why Eddie Hearn fed Brook to Golovkin. It is almost like he wanted rid of him. At 30 years old, 36-0 (25 KO), the IBF World Welterweight champion, Brook should have been looking to step up to Super Welterweight/Light Middleweight and position himself for a title shot there. At the time Jermell Charlo held the WBC, Jermall Charlo the IBF, Liam Smith the WBO, and Erislandy Lara the WBA World. Would have made more sense having Canelo vs. GGG then, and Brook vs. Smith. But instead we got Canelo vs. Smith and GGG vs. Brook. Brook shouldn't have fought GGG, no other way to say it. Fighting Errol Spence 9 months later, in his comeback fight, fresh off surgery to fix a broke eye socket, in a division 13lb below his last fight, when he'd struggled to make that weight for years, again another WTF moment. Spence was pretty unknown in the UK, but still, Brook had no business returning to Welterweight after moving up to Middleweight. In interviews Hearn would say "Well... if he wants to go back to Welterweight, what can I do?" Smirking all the while. After almost getting retired by GGG in a fight he never should have took, he should have taken a year out, vacated his IBF belt, and looked to come back at Super Welter. Not rush back against a young killer like Spence at a weight he can barely make. Madness. Anyway, I'm rambling. Brook is shot now and took life-altering damage in both of those fights. When he retires as a one-time Welterweight champion of the World, it almost feels like he didn't fulfill his potential. Seeing him flatten Amir Khan was also a mouth-watering prospect, but even that now looks like it won't happen. At this point there's no guarentee he'd beat Khan if they end up fighting. It really is a shame, because a lot of people had great expectations when it came to Kell Brook. Yeah Kell is a very good fighter that will never get his due.

He stayed at WW because he wanted the Khan fight - a guy naturally smaller than him - to cash out. That speaks volumes about his mindset. Khan pursued the best out there Froch pursued the best out there Joshua is pursuing the best out there Kell wanted the easy match(es). Maybe but most likely because there has been a rivalry between the two guys for a long time and Kell wants to resolve it.