Comments Thread For: Brook To Golovkin: I Look Forward To Feeling Your Power!

[Mike_R]

Nobody expects Kell to be able to beat Golovkin, and nobody will think any less of him when he loses. If he puts up a good show, he could come out of this with better options going forward than he had before. And he will be a lot richer too!

I don't disagree, but being an undefeated fighter also presents some questions about how he'll take a first defeat. I suppose what I was driving at was:

What if Kell gets stopped viciously and it blasts out his self confidence in future fights? There is always some mystery and things to be learned about fighters when

1. their 0 is gone

2. they get stopped for the first time

Still, all the props in the world go to Brook for taking the fight. We're going to learn more about him this year than we ever have, no matter what.

This also could kind of set up Brook vs. Khan, oddly. Not what anyone imagined though to see them go into a fight having both suffered recent KO defeats.

-I know I'm assuming quite a bit with GGG vs. Brook... I feel pretty safe with my expectation of a KO win for GGG though.

[Citizen Koba]

If he struggling so much to make 147 then why was he just in negotiations to fight Jessie Vargas? I would think if he was struggling to make 147 then he would had been negotiating with a junior middleweight!

It could be that the weight issue was contributory to Kell jumping at the GGG fight. Kid's 30 which is typically around when guys start to struggle more making weight. But yes, he should definitely have been looking for a JMW if that was the case. That said, how often do £ multi-million offers drop in his lap?

[NaijaD]

Well damn, Brook saying his natural weight is 160 and that he has to really drain down to make 147.

155 was Khan's natural weight too till he got flattened or flatlined.... Brook will say all the right things leading up to the fight you can be sure of that. It's what he says after the fight that will be interesting.

[muslimer12]

The fact that he got knocked down once in his career. You can say his opponents or whatever but I'll just label him sturdy from what we've seen.

I think he may be above khan in terms of sturdy, but below average. Hes gotten wobbled as well, from glancing punch tbh especially knowing his opposition for the most part was horrid except porter

[LacedUp]

The fact that he got knocked down once in his career. You can say his opponents or whatever but I'll just label him sturdy from what we've seen.

And it was a flash knockdown 10 years ago.

[cork]

What makes you think Kell is sturdy?

The fact that he got knocked down once in his career. You can say his opponents or whatever but I'll just label him sturdy from what we've seen.

[muslimer12]

I hate this sport sometimes. We got 2 circus fights this year, hopefully no more.

[muslimer12]

Don't think canelo would knock out brook. He's pretty sturdy but to stay on topic does brook think ggg power is fabricated? I don't understand what he's thinking. Ggg make full size mw quit not sure what brook is looking forward to besides the worst beating he'll ever get.

What makes you think Kell is sturdy?

[mathed]

another over verbalized British fighter who's gonna get killed by another 180 (fight night) fighter lol

LOL, GGG rehydrates 7-12 pounds man....don't know where you got that 180 figure from.

[mathed]

Gosh, people are overanalyzing brooks challenge.
He's not doing anything no one has done before so why all the gossip? Noit everyone does it, maybe because not everyone has confidence. Just cos Floyd didn't want to jump up 2 divisions. He bloated jmm 2 divisions though.

It's because pretty much everyone knows that GGG is a one man wrecking crew whether they like him or hate him and the thought of a WW facing him is disproportionately more of a mismatch than it would be for other MW's.