Brook is one of the worst managed high level boxers ever

James Kirkland Yuriorkis Gamboa Chad Dawson Andre Dirrell Demetrius Andrade They are all up there also.

The Golovkin fight ruined him, but he has no one to blame but himself, he was the one that pushed for the fight because he was shadowing Khan, who was to fight Canelo. This is where a team, must hold a fighter back. Eddie Hearn maybe even Dominic Ingle should of 'Saved him from himself'. Everyone including people inside boxing, could all see the potential unnecessary danger that Golovkin possessed. Kell Brook was moving up two weight classes, to fight a guy 'That even middle-weight where petrified of'. I always remember watching the open workout of Golovkin, and hearing the sounds of his punches detonating on the pads 'The sky sports team where bothered, and Johnny Nelson was clearly shaken'. Chris Eubank Senior, done the right thing and very smartly protected Eubank Junior. Nobody protected Kell Brook. I more so, blame Eddie Hearn 'Ingle & Brook where both high on achievement at the time'.

The Golovkin fight ruined him, but he has no one to blame but himself, he was the one that pushed for the fight because he was shadowing Khan, who was to fight Canelo.

Kell "The could of been special one" Brook If not for terrible management & GGG. It is a shame though..

Stop it. GGG is getting more money than most of Legends from México. He got 100 millions in the contract by dazn, and then he is fighting with bums by crazy amount of money. He is getting paydays of 4 millions by fight vs poland fighters. Golovkin is a big fighter, but he has not quite reached the level of a boxing mega star. He is a level below the likes of Fury, Joshua, Alvarez etc He was then, and he is now,

I mean let's please not start acting like the Crawford win was over even a half decent version of Brook. He's been finished for a few years now, Crawford did what needed to be done but Brook wasn't going to give anyone with a pulse any real issues that night was he. i know that, obv kell's eye socket's are finished and it is no joking matter. However let's not act like the fight was 'close' just because crawford chose to take his time.

Idky Brook opted to fight GGG at 160 instead of Canelo at 154 who was somewhat closer to his weight. It was a very dumb move on Brook's part, the 3G fight ruined him.

Maybe terrible career decisions but still an awesome fighter. He was holding his own for the first early rds vs GGG which was quite impressive. Eventually the size and power of GGG took over and there was no where for the little man to run. He also did real good vs Spence for the first 5-6 rds and kept it competitive here and there as he took more of a beating in the second half of their fight. Again, I think he's a great fighter but he had plenty of short comings and you could chock those up to his career decisions that may have made him damaged goods when he needed to be at his best.

Brook against GGG is one of the worst pieces of matchmaking i've ever seen for a world champion. Zero reason to make that fight, zero chance to win and zero benefit to losing. He was almost guaranteed to get badly hurt which is exactly what happened and he's never been the same since.

He did what we want other people to do, dare to be great. He failed miserably of course lol.. he should have never took the GGG fight, that was the beginning of the end for him

He was being managed well until? People in his team should of held him back, and forced him not to take the Golovkin fight. Fighting Golovkin was a completely unnecessary fight at the time. Golovkin was no mega star 'Kell Brook world wide in my opinion at that time, was the bigger and more popular fighter in terms of marketability'. Golovkin was a unbeaten and intimidating fighter, but he has never been a mega star in terms of 'Attracting the masses or transcending the sport'. It was that fight and the brutality of it which really damaged Kell Brook. People at the time were complaining about Kell Brook not getting the big fights, but who cares? He had a world championship belt, all he had to do was hold station and eventually a big fight at welter-weight would of surfaced. Kell Brook is a really good fighter, you only have to look at the opening rounds vs Terrence Crawford. Skill for skill, Kell Brook was right there with Crawford 'It is just that the injuries he sustained against Golovkin & Spence Junior in my opinion still effect him on some level'. Stop it. GGG is getting more money than most of Legends from México. He got 100 millions in the contract by dazn, and then he is fighting with bums by crazy amount of money. He is getting paydays of 4 millions by fight vs poland fighters.

You could argue it all went down hill after beating porter. The dude fought nothing but bums and getting stabbed definitely didn't help. Then the whole ggg fight and so on. But I remember they tried to fight Rios after his first bum but for some reason couldn't get it done so idk who to blame there. So if they couldn't get Rios how were they gonna get anybody else? I remember the fight falling through as Rios wanted too much money (1.75m I think?). End of the day it wasn’t down to Brook ducking anyone, he just couldn’t get another big fight and took the GGG fight out of desperation. If he’d just bided his time, he’d have gotten some bigger fights eventually, and would have had far more chance of beating Spence. It wasn’t like the fight wasn’t fairly close until the stoppage anyway, pre 147-160-147 Brook would have been far harder for Spence to handle.

Both he and Khan hated each other so much that they were willing to compete to see who would get KO'd better in 2016. Khan got iced by Canelo and Brook said, "Hold my beer! I'll get beat at Middleweight as well...but in better fashion!" (if that makes any sense). Both were paid handsomely for their losses but it pretty much closed the curtains on their careers. I agree though! Whoever handles his career did a hack-job on his career for sure! He should've stayed in the US to defend the IBF title that he won from Porter but he ran back to England and took up a rather mediocre path as one somebody already mentioned. Again, he's a gifted fighter with horrible management, unfortunately.

I'm not sure how much Hearn is to blame vs. his own stupid choices, whether it's getting into bar fights or even suggesting fighting Golovkin

he got half his thigh muscle hacked off by a guy in a bar & how was he to know he has suspect orbital bones, it was just all bad luck really

come on, wrong way round, he was protected as shyt. Has one decent title worthy opponent that he handled well, which proves hes decent enough. but nothing else, just a stack of nobodies except the losses.

Brook was a brilliant fighter, before GGG. That’s not the whole story though. He got stabbed right after beating Porter, then when he returned, the IBF kept giving him awful mandatories. I think by that point he was just desperate for another big fight, so took the GGG one. Arguably the bigger mistake was coming back down two divisions to fight Spence. He struggled at 147 anyway, never mind coming down 2 divisions straight from a beating from Golovkin. I still believe that pre-GGG Brook would’ve beaten Spence.

I still think that Khan trolled Brook into fighting GGG. Agree that he's made some daft decisions. difference is that brook is a good counterpuncher, so crawford fought a different style. they were essentially waiting to counter one another, it became a chess match and then crawford beat him to the punch but only once he'd tasted a bit of brook's power and realised it was no threat.

True Loyal to a fault ?

He might have been right there with them but he's got no dog in him when the going gets tough. He just crumbles, ever since golovkin smashed his eye in. He's scared of getting hurt. He turns away to avoid getting hit in the face. Well yes, his breaking point as I said 'Is reached more easily, ever since the Golovkin fight'. It is probably a combination of things. The injuries he sustained vs Golovkin and the struggle to make 147 pound limit.