Comments Thread For: Brook Baits Golovkin: You Want Respect? Show Me That Power!

[FeFist]

Golovkin vs Brook is like a Pitt Bull vs a Poodle. We all know how this is going to end.

[El-blanco]

I feel like this whole fight will look like the last few rounds of the Stevens fight.

[Nomadic]

I seen the previous post, about Kell being better than Mayweather. He will need a Mayweather vs Canelo performance to win this bout.

[SteveM]

It's confusing as gggs critics underplay him saying he fought bums. But ggg opponents say ggg is too good we are not ready for him.? They can see they are not ready against him on the basis of seeing him beat bums up.
So I'm as confused as the next.

It shouldn't be confusing. His opponents are not bums - that is just the haters. Other MWs no they are not bums and someone like Jacobs and BJS know they're in for a tough fight if they're in with Lemieux or Murray (as he was) so they figure "look how he took out Lemieux - made it look easy work" and they figure they probably couldn't do the same against Lemieux - so why risk fighting Golovkin for relatively little money and a good chance of defeat.
The problem is K2 don't have tons of money and the other MWs don't have balls. Brook would not fight GGG for $1M - so him getting $4M from Sky and Hearn is what has made this fight possible. Supposedly same contract as offered to Eubank. But not enough. What does that say?

[aboutfkntime]

One can argue Brook is cashing out since Khan won't throw him a bone,


but I'm not like a hateful Brook fan who said Khan is chasing a pay day and not daring to be great.

2x good points

some folks should think long and hard about this post

there are plenty of better/easier ways for Kell Brook to make his mark on this sport, nobody can deny that..... he did not need to fight Golovkin, especially after Khan got KTFO by Canelo

I see that fight as being closer to a cash-out than reaching for greatness, but Brook still has to get in the ring with Golovkin, and I am sure that he will give it his best shot.

[aboutfkntime]

I think Golovkin is the most over hyped fighter in boxing. I love his fights though. He passes the eye test with flying colors because no-one else is KOing 22 opponents in a row and a good few of those were in the top ten when they fought. But no elite opponents.
On the other hand Brook is under-hyped - flying under the radar. He is a better boxer than any of Golovkins previous opponents. Albeit a LMW in reality. He also has oodles of self belief which is a prerequisite for defeating a "monster".
Whereas Khan looked like he had tiger Canelo by the tail and we all knew it was just a matter of time I'm thinking this fight will show a lot of kinks in Golovkin's armour and that'll be a good thing as we will see other fighters step up to fight him.

He is over-rated as fk, some clowns are even calling him an ATG.

I agree with you about the eye-test, but a lot of guys look great against sub-par competition.

I want to know why he came out with every excuse in the book to avoid 3x mover/spoilers who are notoriously difficult to look good against..... and I also need to know why he totally refused to negotiate on the weight with the 2 JMW superstars Cotto and Canelo.

Any other fighter would cut off one of their fingers for an opportunity like that, but Mr "anyone from 154-168" seemed almost disinterested.

[aboutfkntime]

GGG has been hurt before but he has hidden it so well that we were none the wiser and not even aware GGG has been shook. So if Brook can visibly hurt GGG that will be a achievement in itself even if he dont drop him, let alone stop him.

nah, those " lil'G " comments from Ward had him butthurt as hell

[davidw9785]

Best response, and only two posts in... haha. Well done my friend!

[Combat Talk Radio]

I don't know how anyone could say Brook has a higher ring IQ than a German with 300+ amatuer fights.

Higher ring IQ than GGG's past opponents, I said.

But I'll go with Golovkin too. GGG simply sucks in the middle of the ring for some reason.

[Metho_4u]

a brook full of carbohydrates and full of self belief is a dangerous kell brook

F'n tool lol always hyping brook juuuust in case huh?