Just How Good Was Kell Brook At His Very Best

[GrandpaBernard]

memorable matches

1st man to hand Porter a L

also went life & death with Carson Jonez

[RadChang]

Bud would have always destroyed him. Spence also has too much dog for him.

The Porter win was his pinnacle.

[Earl-Hickey]

Very good but mentally deficient.

Not sure how he does vs Spence and Crawford as he was washed with surgically repaired face vs both but I think at his very best he's close to 50/50 with them both.

Both those guys WAY more consistent and professional though which is why their careers are way better

[deathofaclown]

If he never dropped two weight classes straight off the GGG fight, he would have beaten Spence. The first half of that fight showed it, before the weight problems took its toll. You can’t drop from 160 to 147 in your next fight, especially when you’re tight at the weight normally, and especially coming off the back of a beating and eye surgeries.

i think Crawford would probably always found a way to beat him, but it would have been a great fight, prime for prime.

Brook at his best would give anyone at 147 a hell of a fight, win or lose. Even more so if he had lived the life. He was no joke.

his timing is some of the best I’ve seen. Very few fighters can just have impeccable timing right from the opening bell, right off the bat. That’s a gift.

[daggum]

he was dominating ggg before the early stoppage!

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Solid B level Welterweight. Was never in that elite mix with Crawford, Spence but could have mixed it in the level below with Porter, Garcia, Thurman etc.

Shame he wasted his title run taking pointless fights.

[daggum]

If he never dropped two weight classes straight off the GGG fight, he would have beaten Spence. The first half of that fight showed it, before the weight problems took its toll. You can’t drop from 160 to 147 in your next fight, especially when you’re tight at the weight normally, and especially coming off the back if a beating.

i think Crawford would probably always found a way to beat him, but it would have been a great fight, prime for prime.

Brook at his best would give anyone at 147 a hell of a fight, win or lose.

i dont think so because that first carson jones fight was basically an even fight, i scored it for jones cause i gave him a 10-8 in one of the last rounds for beating the stuffing out of brook so i think i had it 114-113 but anyway it showed that brook was always a bit weak at 147 where the fight was held. the second jones fight was at 152 and brook was very dominat and didnt run out of gas like the first fight. spence probably always comes on strong and stops brook late or does enough to win it with a late surge. brook looked dead against crawford and was whamboozeled by a jab. i think a lot of that is because of the weight, similar to how canelo looked a lot worse at 154-155 then he does now. he was just draining himself to compete there

[Silence]

Healthy and prime Brook would outbox Spence and wins by 8-4 or 9-3.

[deathofaclown]

i dont think so because that first carson jones fight was basically an even fight, i scored it for jones cause i gave him a 10-8 in one of the last rounds for beating the stuffing out of brook so i think i had it 114-113 but anyway it showed that brook was always a bit weak at 147 where the fight was held. the second jones fight was at 152 and brook was very dominat and didnt run out of gas like the first fight. spence probably always comes on strong and stops brook late or does enough to win it with a late surge. brook looked dead against crawford and was whamboozeled by a jab. i think a lot of that is because of the weight, similar to how canelo looked a lot worse at 154-155 then he does now. he was just draining himself to compete there

Yeah but you can’t look at a single performance to judge how everything plays out with other opponents

If you look at the Jones fight, you wouldn’t think Brook would handle Porter way better than almost anybody did, and that was an undefeated Porter, but he did.

Plenty of fighters have unconvincing nights. Marvin Hagler lost to 2 fringe contenders on the way up before becoming the highly revered champ he did. The Hagler that lost to Monroe should have no business beating the fighters he went on to beat.

My opinion is prime for prime on their best nights at 100%, Brook would have beaten Spence. He would have given Crawford a really good fight too.

[ELPacman]

Whatever, let's lower the high you might be on just because he beat a shot, always glass chinned Khan. Breidis Prescott blasted him...