Comments Thread For: Hearn: Kell Brook Signed To Fight Gennady Golovkin in 24 Hours

[Nomadic]

*** GGG, Canelo, Khan , Brook.
Its all bout the money. I dont pay to see others get rich, I pay to see the best fight the best.

I have to agree with you on this one. This is either going to be an early night or a World Class Track Meet.

[hitking]

Brook is like everyone elae with an astute boxing eye. He can see the many flaws in GGG's game. And he thinks he can exploit those flaws. The problem is, you can't measure power and physical stregnth by watching a guy on film. Kell's a good lil fighter. But, he's not great at anything. And you need to be great at something in order to successfully beat bigger guys. Floyd had his defense to lean on. Manny had his ridiculous speed/power combination. Kell's not gonna outbox GGG for 12rds. And even if he can outbox him the majority of the time, he doesn't have the power to keep GGG honest, which means he's gonna have to be perfect for 12rds. Ain't gonna happen.

[Mr. Luthor]

Take notice Andre coWard. THIS is how its done! Kell is a beast!

Stop embarrassing yourself.

[Mr. Luthor]

Could be. I think Sr is delusional and is a bad manager for his son. He really shouldn't be in control of his sons career like this, training, cool that's great but this micro managing is too much. From what Hearn said he wanted to control the ticket prices, double than Joshua's fights. That's Hearn's word of course but everything I've seen from Sr is delusional talk. He acts like his son is him, it's weird.

Not very surprising because from Eubank's perspective, Golovkin is not a PPV boxer, has no sold out arena history in the UK and is a much tougher opponent than any of Joshua's opponents. Eubank was trying to max out the reward for the great risk a Golovkin fight presents. What too many boxing fans forget is that Canelo, Eubank Jr and Billy Joe Saunders are all under 27 years old so the father time clock is only ticking fast for 34 yr old Golovkin.

[kiaba360]

Not very surprising because from Eubank's perspective, Golovkin is not a PPV boxer, has no sold out arena history in the UK and is a much tougher opponent than any of Joshua's opponents. Eubank was trying to max out the reward for the great risk a Golovkin fight presents. What too many boxing fans forget is that Canelo, Eubank Jr and Billy Joe Saunders are all under 27 years old so the father time clock is only ticking fast for 34 yr old Golovkin.

I'm sure K2 is aware of this, which is why fights like GGG/Brook are even being made to begin with. It seems like their mind was made up about getting GGG to the UK, regardless of the quality of opposition. This mismatch only pays off if the UK fans actually come out and support it. This fight should flop, but we'll see what happens.

[SteveM]

Yea, there will always be a haze around the truth when it comes to negotiations like this but it certainly had the appearance that they were negotiating and Hearn pulled the rug out, IMO. When he says that the Eubanks rejected it, it reeks of a situation where people are going back and forth in a negotiation, as is normal, and one guy pulling out for a better deal.

The Eubanks are notorious bullshytters but I genuinely believe that they were expecting either a contract or a counter offer to the terms.

You want to genuinely believe what notorious bullshytters say? Why would you do that? SMH

Hearns didn't say the Eubanks rejected the contract. They were in negotiations as to what was going in to the contract. When the Eubanks counter offered and demanded extremely non-standard clauses such as operational control then they, not Hearns, were rejecting the possibility to fight, just the same as if they would be if they demanded $10 million for the fight. Certain things are not possible and one of those is a fighter under a normal contract choosing the undercard and even the purses of the fighters on the undercard. Absurd.

But go on believeing the notorious bullshytters why not.

[SteveM]

Hearn is just one of those you can never believe what comes out of his mouth.

Still following this line today huh? None of us here, as far as I am ware, has full knowledge of the facts. But what you do is try to piece together what is being said by whom, history, track record for lying or telling the truth, what other actors say. Also, if someone says something outrageous and it is never denied then that is indicative.
Of course, if you have an agenda you probably don't want to do any of the above. Just follow your agenda as it is easier and doesn't necesitate any brain power.

[SteveM]

I would see Roman Gonzalez versus Anthony Joshua. Hearn, you make the deal?

I would see Roman step up 3 weight classes and fight Rigondeaux. Would you ?

[dazzo16]

Anybody actually believe that this big of a fight took 24 hours?
Hearn played eubank all along. They learned from khan brook canelo negotiations

[SteveM]

Brook is like everyone elae with an astute boxing eye. He can see the many flaws in GGG's game. And he thinks he can exploit those flaws. The problem is, you can't measure power and physical stregnth by watching a guy on film. Kell's a good lil fighter. But, he's not great at anything. And you need to be great at something in order to successfully beat bigger guys. Floyd had his defense to lean on. Manny had his ridiculous speed/power combination. Kell's not gonna outbox GGG for 12rds. And even if he can outbox him the majority of the time, he doesn't have the power to keep GGG honest, which means he's gonna have to be perfect for 12rds. Ain't gonna happen.

For once you are talking sense imo . But this is closer than Khanelo. What you describe above should happen.