sharpei_louis wrote:Enlightened-One wrote:As a side note - Anyone that believes that Golovkin possesses a porous defence, because of the high volume of shots that Brook landed, is being naïve. GGG allowed the Brit to land his blows to excite the crowd, because the punches weren’t damaging.
Are you seriously trying to say Golovkin was letting himself be hit to excite the crowd? I can't believe that for a minute. He may not have a 'porous defence', but Brook got through cleanly with a lot more than you're giving him credit for. He was very good, yeah took shots but under high pressure slipped and rolled a good number and landed cleanly and definitely rocked Golovkin on a few occasions. Yes GGG was never seriously hurt, but two or three times after taking a shot he totally changed momentum, took a step back and took more shots, and I think was definitely troubled.
I believe that there were direct parallels between Golovkin’s performances in his bouts against Monroe Jr. and Brook.
GGG appears to have the mind-set, against opponents’ that don’t possess enough power to trouble him, which compels him to refrain from defeating his challengers in the optimum manner. So instead of using his skills with a sole aim to score a one-sided early knockout, he has the confidence in his own ability to adopt a crowd-pleasing
“big drama show” fighting style.
In fact, I accurately predicted the following:
“In terms of my expectations, the bout will last as long as GGG wants it to, because he’ll try to put on a “big drama show” to impress and excite the UK fans… so I’ll expect him to “carry” Brook and force a stoppage before the end of the fifth round.”
I know for certain that Abel Sanchez instructed Golovkin to pressure Brook, instead of boxing him. So he adopted a 'stalk-til-they-can't-walk' fighting style, without being defensively responsible, because he felt he could treat the Brit’s punches with total contempt.
Despite the fact the cauldron of passionate British fans sitting ringside, at the packed-out 02 Arena, continually emitted explosive deafening roars whenever Kell Brook landed any clean blows, when I closely scrutinised these shots, they seemed fairly innocuous in nature and Gennady appeared to be in his comfort zone when he walked through the Brits heaviest punches.
I am aware that Golovkin felt the need to take a step back on a couple of occasions, but this seemed to be more about maintaining his balance and the correct distance between himself and his opponent in order to maximise the leverage in his own shots.
When I watched the bout, GGG seemed to be physically much bigger than Kell Brook, a fact that Golovkin himself repeatedly conceded, when he claimed the Brit was simply far too small and too weak to be considered a genuine middleweight.
To be fair to Brook though, he put on a brave performance and he deserves to receive praise for taking on such a monumental challenge, but the outcome of this bout was almost certainly inevitable, which is the reason why I have always maintained my belief that it was a mismatch… and the benefit of hindsight has now proven me to be correct.
