Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin 162.9, Kell Brook 167.8 - WBC 7 Day Weights

[soul_survivor]

Good post, I agree.

You're not supposed to be working out hard in the last week before a fight. It's a time to be ramping down and conserving all your energy for the big night.

GGGs training seems to be on point and he has a professional team around him. Brook has had weight issues in the past, especially in the lackluster (yet fun) performance against Jones. He complained about weight afterwards and the rematch was then held at 150 or something.

For Brook to be this bad on weight in the biggest fight of his life screams unprofessional behaviour.

[Ake-Dawg]

I don't believe Brook's weight for one second. He will show up at the weigh in looking like an undrained 159 pound man. Also why did GGG have to take his shirt off for his seven day weigh in? They are playing games with the weights to sell this fight as a fight between two men that are the same size.

[StefanTosic]

Brook made weight such a big thing for this fight

It's not him, it's GGG's detractors who were saying GGG is fighting a tiny guy.

[TexasCowBoy]

They should go back to same day weigh in. I wonder how the divisions would look if that happens.

And 15 rounds

[Progrssive_Jedi]

because of a 10 sec video of him jumping rope? Show me a video of his workouts when he didn't have all this weight on? And you will see on fight night when he moves like he's stuck in mud because he packed on too much weight and doesn't have the same speed and mobility. He ain't winning this fight and lifting weights don't help your chin. It will just slow him down and make a easier target for GGG to knockout. This fight is joke no matter how much Kell Brook wants to turn into a body builder in the last 2 months.

He didn't have a chin problem at 147. He prob wouldn't at 160. But he's fighting GGG, and he isn't a chin checker, he breaks you down with power shots.

EXACTLY. Normal everyday people in a few months can pack on 20-30 pounds of muscle just to look good for a bytch. But if you care more then just what your body looks like it's a problem. Otherwise if all you needed was to get on a insane weight lifting program to be successful in boxing you would see featherweights jumping up to middleweight in 1 year. It don't work that way in boxing. Adding that muscle almost always hurts you more then helps especially if you do it in a short amount of time.

Brook was 186 when this fight was announced. He only needed to take less weight off.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

I don't believe Brook's weight for one second. He will show up at the weigh in looking like an undrained 159 pound man. Also why did GGG have to take his shirt off for his seven day weigh in? They are playing games with the weights to sell this fight as a fight between two men that are the same size.

How many pounds do you think ggg's shirt weighs. Good grief.

[MDPopescu]

Brook ready to SHOOK THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very well: I like Brook... But the way he acted as of lately makes me hesitate...

[Kilrain]

"tough Hungarian"....Paul continues his hunt for a "third world title shot". Who wrote this, Hearn? Both fighting cab drivers. Not even worth mentioning. Talk about padding out a bill. This is an execrable card, from all perspectives. GGG-Brook is an eye-watering mismatch, Hall-Haskins MEH, Edwards-Casimero, decent, nothing spectacular.

[champion4ever]

It's safe to say that Kell Brook's days of making the 147lb limit are retired.

[davidw9785]

EXACTLY. Normal everyday people in a few months can pack on 20-30 pounds of muscle just to look good for a bytch. But if you care more then just what your body looks like it's a problem. Otherwise if all you needed was to get on a insane weight lifting program to be successful in boxing you would see featherweights jumping up to middleweight in 1 year. It don't work that way in boxing. Adding that muscle almost always hurts you more then helps especially if you do it in a short amount of time.

20-30 pounds of muscle is a few months?? unless you are on anabolic steroids, this is not possible.