Comments Thread For: Brook's Challenge of Golovkin Shows Signs of 1980s Greatness

[Metho_4u]

This is a throwback fighter. Brook has confidence when people doubted brook. Shame Floyd didn't want to prove people wrong the way brook is doing.
Floyd made his name off of little dudes like jmm and PAC, that was a challenge to Floyd. And he didn't fight PAC when PAC was a steroid machine who wouldn't take any tests, he fought PAC after losses to jmm and Bradley.

Brook is moving up 2 divisions against wrecking machine, it needs perspective just hoiw big achievement it is if he wins. I'd expect brook to do well and not disgrace himself everyday. But to win not many would expect that

Fixed that for ya

[Lou Cipher]

So GayLoveKin brings a 147 lb fighter up and he's a throwback fighter? The only one deserving of any credit here is Brook. NO ONE thinks this fight does anything for GayLoveKin, well, except you, the biggest di@khead fu@ckface a@@wad on this entire forum, ****** **** wart.

Did you say something?

[Metho_4u]

Five inches? Box rec says the reach difference is one inch, lol.

Lou wishes he had 5 inches....in his @ss

[big_james10]

You can't compare this fight to the 1980s Greatness.The guys who fought in the 80's at welterweight -- Leonard, Hearns, Duran -- fought each other at welterweight and had established their reps as superstars. Theyh moved up to 154 and won there and then to 160. Hagler fought at 160 and beat guys like Vito Antufuermo and Alan Minto and others to establish himself as the best in the division.

Kell Brook has fought one decent welterweight in his career and 34 cab drivers. Golovkin has never faced an opponent who would be considered higher than a C+ fighter.

This fight looks like a mismatch. If it turns out not to be one and Kell Brook beats Golovkin and goes on to defeat other top fighters around the 147-160 pound range, then we can start comparing him Leonard and Hearns.

[big_james10]

Brook hasn't done enough for this fight to be labled a throw back blast from the past. If he would have stepped up to the plate and defeated thurman and garcia then maybe so or had the other champions fearing him on a golovkin,pacquiao type status. Little floyd had the chance to really be great but he was a chicken and avoided all risk.

Floyd fought Berto (former world champion), Pacquaio (world champion), Marcos Maidana (world champion) twice, Canelo Alvarez (world champion), Guerrero (WBC mandatory opponent), Cotto (world champion), Victor Ortiz (world champion), Shane Mosley (world champion) and JMM (world champion at 135) in his last 10 fights.

Please tell us how the chicken avoided all risk?

[wmute]

I believe all those fights you are referring to took place in the same-day weigh in era. If Brook had been fighting back then he would have struggled to make SWW, let alone WW.

Kell revealed yesterday that he can no longer make 147, and he's been tight at the IBF rehydration limit of 157 at noon on fight day since he won his title.

Yeah nice try.

Neither Duran nor Hearns nor Leonard ever made 47 after fighting Hagler. Leonard and Hearns never made 54 after fighting Hagler (with the exception of Leonard-Norris, but I doubt you want to drag that one out). Duran made 154 in one more fight (to get starched by Hearns in 2 rounds).

All of the above happened with day before weigh ins.

Also let's see Brook wins a 168 and/or 175 belts weighing in the day before, like Hearns and Leonard did.

lol is all i can say to your excuses.

[kafkod]

Yeah nice try.

Neither Duran nor Hearns nor Leonard ever made 47 after fighting Hagler. Leonard and Hearns never made 54 after fighting Hagler (with the exception of Leonard-Norris, but I doubt you want to drag that one out). Duran made 154 in one more fight (to get starched by Hearns in 2 rounds).

All of the above happened with day before weigh ins.

Also let's see Brook wins a 168 and/or 175 belts weighing in the day before, like Hearns and Leonard did.

lol is all i can say to your excuses.

What weights Leornard, Hearns and Duran fought at with day-before weigh ins AFTER moving up for Hagler is not relevent to how those fights with Marvin were made or to what people thought about them WHEN THEY HAPPENED.

Whether Kell Brook could win titles at 168 and 175 is also completely irrelevent to him moving up to 160 for GGG.

[mrjoeblive]

Golovkin had signed to fight Eubank, who is a MW and bigger than him. He was offered Brook as an alternative when that fight fell through. Nobody in GGG's own division wants to fight him. Kell Brook wants the fight and his promoter is backing him with money. If Haymon had been willing to do the same with Jacobs and Lara those fights would have happened by now. Neither would have any more chance of beating Golovkin than Kell Brook has though.

You say only GGG fans like this fight ... again, lets wait and see. Eddie Hearn thinks it will sell out the 02 Arena and earn both men career high money from Sky PPV. I think he knows what he's doing better than you.

for the record ggg wants no part of lara!!! lara has been begging for this fight for years and ggg just pretends that lara does not exist. why? because lara has a high skill set and always moving feet and can take a punch and dish out punches as well. ggg would have been better off dragging up angulo or kirkland since he fears ward and lara.

[mrjoeblive]

Floyd fought Berto (former world champion), Pacquaio (world champion), Marcos Maidana (world champion) twice, Canelo Alvarez (world champion), Guerrero (WBC mandatory opponent), Cotto (world champion), Victor Ortiz (world champion), Shane Mosley (world champion) and JMM (world champion at 135) in his last 10 fights.

Please tell us how the chicken avoided all risk?

dam good post big james!!!!!!! yet these dudes claim that coward ggg is so great when all he ever fought was soup cans, not even Campbell but generic soup cans. im tired of the 2 way streets. when saul fought khan it was a travesty. now ggg fights a man coming up 2 wt classes and he is compared to hearns and hagler??????? what a crock.

[mrjoeblive]

GayLoveKin had a chance to be great and pussed out with Ward...end of story.
Floyd's 40 years old, Floyd came up 5 divisions and beat all top notch fighters. What has GayLoveKin done? Seriously? You know completely well that had Floyd fought and won vs GayLoveKin, he suddenly would've been a hype job, or morons like yourself would have started watching 5 hour fights in slow mo like a **** and said he lost, or they would have said GayLoveKin got robbed, or it was the weight, or the stars weren't aligned just right. Floyd has proven himself, and done so early in his career, wtf has GayLoveKin clown shown? Because to me he hasn't shown *****.

hahahahahahahahaha! i did enjoy reading this post!