Kell Brook got heart

[kafkod]

That’s exactly how i saw it. He did the best he could given the situation and fought his heart out..

I dont see that as a quit job.

I thought he put up a great fight just got bested.

I can't fault him he at least left it all in the ring unlike my boy Rigo.

His orbital was broke he was gassed, knocked down and he went for broke and threw everything at Spence before deciding he'd nothing left. I can't knock that he gave it his best.

I think with Brook having a broken eye socket VS GGG and being told the operation risked him going blind helped his decision. Apparently they had to lift his eye out a bit etc in that operation (Although it could be a normal procedure which I don't know)

Two broken eye sockets in back to back fights against arguably the two best punchers AND fighters in their respective divisons. (GGG at 160 and Spence at 147)

The man fought GGG and Errol Spence back to back for christ sake. Not only did he fight them, he was arguably winning before he got his eye socket broken and then stopped by both of them each eye. The fact he even wants to fight again after that....he's a "quitter" though.

Give the man a ****ing break. "Quitter" my ass.

I agree. The bone in his face was broken and the pain must have been awful. He couldn't see much and to continue would make the injury even worse as Spence was targeting the injured eye. Under the circumstances it seemed reasonable to stop fighting in my opinion. Maybe some boxers would have continued but I think most boxers would not have continued to fight under the same circumstances.

I think the fight could have been a slpit decisions had he not broken his eye socket.

****ss are the only people labeling him a quitter. Guys who have never played a sport in their lives

The only people who should be allowed to call him a quitter are actual FIGHTERS who have gone through the same exact injury as Brook and continued fighting through it.

If you don't meet this standard, shut the **** up.

I'm not a fan of Kell

But the dude has heart for days and. He fought Gennady and Spence back to back and even though I think he quit in both fights. I'm not going to knock it since both times he got his face broken

Especially when you consider in the last week Gradovich and Zou Shiming basically retired or should retire from eye issues. Probably wouldn't have been wise in either fight to try and continue

I'm seconding what these posters say.

Brook did "quit" in that he retired himself from the fight, but not before he'd given everything he had to try and win it.

I thought he showed tremendous heart going for broke with a broken eye socket, after being told by the surgeon that he could have blinded by the same injury in the GGG fight.

[IronDanHamza]

Go blind or live to fight another day? I will choose the latter

Some fighters do some fighters don't, depends on their mentalitity.

But he quit though, that's just a fact.

[New England]

I don't think so. The fact that he's talking about fighting again means the injury wasn't serious enough for him to hang the gloves up. Sure, there's a risk he'll get hurt, but every boxer faces risks. Frazier fought most of his career with a busted eye. He went against Ali in one of the greatest fights ever and was half-blind by the end. Brook didn't even try to tough it out till the final rounds.

make no mistake, the punishment frazier took in the third fight against ali was far beyond what should be expected of athletes competing in a sport.

frazier was hardly coherent late in life, could hardly see as you mentioned, and died in his 60's.


no beef whatsoever with a fighter retiring with a broken eye socket. none. you lose in a sport, but you can still see! you guys have to be very naive or just sadists to want or expect to see people fight on with a broken eye socket and risk a life in the dark.

[mlac]

thank you green k sir.

I think i had brook winning V spence until his face fell apart again, i can understand that considering Golovkin already ****ed his eye up.....people say it was the other eye but i thought it was the same one?

[hugh grant]

Why are people trying to manufacture idea brook has no heart?
After the GGG fight general consensus was brook had heart.

[j0zef]

Agreed. He kept throwing against Golovkin despite getting battered, and he kept throwing against Spence despite being weight drained and battered to ****. Nothing about him says quitter, folks who claim that are plain morons.

Brook's career is probably in jeopardy at this point because of how poorly he has handled it. He got his eye broken after jumping in weight, instead of recuperating for a year, he decides to go back down in weight and get his other eye broken. IMO he's finished, I'd be surprised if he sniffs another world title after this.

"Quitters" are guys like Walters or Rigo, fighters who were not sustaining heavy damage and just decided to call it quits.

[turnedup]

Anyone talking shhh about Kell Brook clearly cannot comprehend how serious that injury is. Really suggest the critics google the effects of a fractured eye socket and realize this man fought with one for a whole six rounds in that fight. In terms of heart that man showed a lot of heart.e.

[Caught Square]

I'm not knocking Brook at all but no matter how you want to sugar coat it he quit. If people are calling him a coward and stuff like that then I would have a problem but he did quit.

He fought several rounds with the bad eye and even in the last round landed some good shots. He stopped in the end because Spence broke his spirit imo. No matter what he did Spence kept coming back stronger and putting him under sustained pressure. Basically he showed great heart before eventually calling it a day.

It's not anything degrading, i think higher of him than other people who quit like Walters.

[Sparked_26]

I agree that he emptied the tank as well as had the injury.

The only thing he didn't do is get knocked unconscious and carried out on a stretcher.

Some fighters would do that as well. But you have to accept that that is not normal, actually shows a strange lack of survival instinct when you really think about it.

[Caught Square]

It's a shame Brook couldn't avoid the jab more consistently because he has the skills to do it but for every nice counter to a Spence/GGG jab, he would get hit with 3 or 4 clean jabs and that was probably his downfall in the end.