To those moaning about the stoppage or Kell Brook's heart...

[soul_survivor]

No. I have had a trapdoor orbital blowout fracture myself, I know what I'm talking about. There are varying levels of severity on blowouts, and it ranges from simple fractures without bone displacement to trapdoor (trapped nerves and muscles) to complete blowouts with no trapping.

Brook had a trapdoor fracture bad. You could tell by the unctonrollable blinking. When I had a blowout fracture I couldn't stop blinking. It was worse because it trapped the nerves and muscles. Afterwards I blew my my nose as I felt blood had gone down the back, and it got even worse and my cheek and eye puffed up with air and I was blinded by the pain.

With a trapdoor fracture your nerves are literally rubbing against shards of broken bone. The blinking and water ruins your vision. You have 0%.

It's only just bearable but not when you are breathing heavy and getting punched in it. Brook is not lesser at all. He was in the ring with GGG and GGG was absolutely hammering him and targeting the eye.

Also Eddie Hearn put the Xray on twitter.

No, you do not have 0% vision but it does affect how you see. I know both as a medical student and as someone who suffered an orbital fracture. Having said all that, like I keep saying, many fighters have gone on with such injuries or worse and gone on to win. Brook quit, fair enough but it makes him a lesser fighter and a lesser man than others who have stepped into a boxing ring.

That is my final word on the matter.

[Sun_Tzu]

No, you do not have 0% vision but it does affect how you see. I know both as a medical student and as someone who suffered an orbital fracture. Having said all that, like I keep saying, many fighters have gone on with such injuries or worse and gone on to win. Brook quit, fair enough but it makes him a lesser fighter and a lesser man than others who have stepped into a boxing ring.

That is my final word on the matter.

Brook didnt quit, his corner threw in the towel. Im fairly sure Brook wanted to keep going.

[deathofaclown]

It's worth noting for all the casuals who say things like margarito fought through it and malignaggi etc,

I think things have become a lot safer for fighters in the past few years too. There's a few exceptions still of course.

I believe there's no way a ringside doctor or commission lets Malignaggi keep fighting if that fight was today.

Of course fighters will fight through it. They get in the ring and fight for a living, they're wired up different to most people.