Kell Brook might be returning

[garethhop]

Still absolutely nuts that 4 of his last 7 fights were against Crawford, GGG, Khan and Spence.

[coneye]

Crawford . GGG , Spence , 3 possible hall of famers , Khan for a last payday , and retire very rich ,, I would say to Brook what the hell you got to prove stay retired and sit on the beach somewhere , stay away from spanish beaches though

[Craighmfc1874]

Eubank jr him no thanks

[jamesmcdonnell]

Still absolutely nuts that 4 of his last 7 fights were against Crawford, GGG, Khan and Spence.

That's some tail end of a career, at least three hall of famers there.

[SeanBrennan]

amazing when you list it like that. do you think he will return?

[a force]

I don’t think he’ll come back unless they offer him crazy money. He might as well keep his name relevant when interviewed.

His only losses have come to hall of famers, as a fan of his I really don’t want to see him get beat by someone like Benn just because he’s past it.

[SeanBrennan]

I don’t think he’ll come back unless they offer him crazy money. He might as well keep his name relevant when interviewed.

His only losses have come to hall of famers, as a fan of his I really don’t want to see him get beat by someone like Benn just because he’s past it.

me neither.

[Craighmfc1874]

Brook was a good fighter but don’t want him to fight jr

[Craighmfc1874]

Brook was a great fighter .he beat khan he has nothing to else to prove

[Craighmfc1874]

Fighting eubank jr why ?

[SeanBrennan]

Fighting eubank jr why ?

££££££

[Craighmfc1874]

A risk for him

[Craighmfc1874]

Fighting eubank jr why ?

££££££

A big risk for him

[SeanBrennan]

Fighting eubank jr why ?

££££££

A big risk for him

for Eubank? I dont think hes bothered about belts.

[Craighmfc1874]

££££££

A big risk for him

for Eubank? I dont think hes bothered about belts.

Yeh eubank

[Craighmfc1874]

That seems to be the case

[Craighmfc1874]

A big risk for him

for Eubank? I dont think hes bothered about belts.

Yeh eubank

That seems to be the case

[SeanBrennan]

A big risk for him

for Eubank? I dont think hes bothered about belts.

Yeh eubank

Obviously I know nothing, but it looks to me that he solely driven by money. I've read he's turned down eliminators etc before. Solely driven by money. Not judging that at all, he has made more money than most champions. He has won quite a few titles albeit some dubious - British title, 2 x IBO, 2 X WBA Interim.

Boxrec have him as number 1 in the world, Smith at 2 - that is utterly mental

[Craighmfc1874]

for Eubank? I dont think hes bothered about belts.

Yeh eubank

Obviously I know nothing, but it looks to me that he solely driven by money. I've read he's turned down eliminators etc before. Solely driven by money. Not judging that at all, he has made more money than most champions. He has won quite a few titles albeit some dubious - British title, 2 x IBO, 2 X WBA Interim.

Boxrec have him as number 1 in the world, Smith at 2 - that is utterly mental

I agree

[Ruthless-RKO]

Kell Brook: "Golovkin Fight Damaged Me, It Changed Me, Should Have Withdrew From Spence Bout"

“That was the first time that someone got in my head before a fight,” said Brook. “I remember being in the hotel room thinking, ‘I’m fighting Golovkin…tonight.’

“I honestly started to doubt myself, I remember me and my nutritionist were in a hotel room at the time and I didn’t say I’d lose, but I said to him, ‘I can win this fight, can’t I?’. That was me straight away saying it out loud and it was negative, I was doubting myself.

“In the weeks leading up to the fight, all I’d seen were videos of Golovkin knocking everyone out, and they were all middleweights. It then dawned on me that I was fighting him in a few hours.

“A lot of it is in the mind – it’s the law of attraction – if you really believe something like I’m going to win the title with everything I’ve got, you can go out and do it – and I did. But for the first time [in my career], I was negative and subsequently was handed my first defeat.”

Brook said: “Looking back at it, Gennady Golovkin was an absolute monster, he was someone who was unbeaten and believed he could beat any man – even at middleweight. I always thought that I could box him and keep out of the way, and that I was better, but as we know, it didn’t go down like that. It damaged me and it changed me.

“When he broke my eye, the surgeon said to me that one more big shot and I could’ve been blind and could’ve lost my eye, and that hit home big time. Those same feelings resurfaced when I boxed Errol Spence Jnr.

“I knew something terrible had happened with Golovkin, it was like a crab claw being crushed, I could hear it and I could feel it. The adrenaline was rushing but I knew something wasn’t right.

“It wasn’t so much the pain, but it was what it did to my vision, it was frightening. It’s always frightening when you’ve got someone with that power against a wounded animal. It was scary.”

“Losing had a big impact the first time, but the second loss was the biggest one for me,” said Brook. “I think because Golovkin was a unified middleweight beast that other middleweights weren’t even fighting, it wasn’t as bad. I still lost though and was absolutely devastated, but what really destroyed me was losing to Errol Spence Jnr.

“If I hadn’t lost to Golovkin I think I would have had a 100 percent better chance of beating Spence. On top of losing, I had the added pressure to make middleweight. After that fight I was a middleweight, and I had my eye broken.

“Eddie Hearn offered me the option of giving up my title because at the time I had to make the weight in a short period – to which I said, ‘absolutely not, I’ve earnt this title and you’ve got to kill me to take it!’

“The training camp for the Spence Jnr. fight was terrible, I was carrying all of this extra weight. I wanted to be completely and utterly focused, but I was having problems with my trainer who was dealing with things at home. Everything was wrong going into that fight.

“I got to the fight and my family were telling me I needed to pull out, but we’d sold all the tickets and I’d done my training. In my own mind I was thinking, ‘I’m going to make this weight, I’ve got a fight and I’m a fighter’. Looking back, it was one fight I wish I had pulled out of.

“I had to question myself after that fight, asking myself am I really good enough. I started thinking about retirement, I hit a really low point in my life and in my career. I was around 30 and I just thought, losing in my weight category against Spence was a tough pill to swallow especially when I believed in myself and I was a world champion – it was my lowest point.”

[SeanBrennan]

fair points from Kell, it was a horrific injury. You're going to be tentative after that.

[The_Don1]

fair points from Kell, it was a horrific injury. You're going to be tentative after that.

He should have never taken the fight, and this isn't hindsight talking, plenty were saying it at the time, some terrible advice he received to get him to take it, we'll never know what Brook could've achieved at 147 because of that.

[SeanBrennan]

fair points from Kell, it was a horrific injury. You're going to be tentative after that.

He should have never taken the fight, and this isn't hindsight talking, plenty were saying it at the time, some terrible advice he received to get him to take it, we'll never know what Brook could've achieved at 147 because of that.

Indeed. Did Ingle train him for this one? I know he used that retired pro for a fight or two. To save money iirc.

[Ruthless-RKO]

fair points from Kell, it was a horrific injury. You're going to be tentative after that.

He should have never taken the fight, and this isn't hindsight talking, plenty were saying it at the time, some terrible advice he received to get him to take it, we'll never know what Brook could've achieved at 147 because of that.

Indeed. Did Ingle train him for this one? I know he used that retired pro for a fight or two. To save money iirc.

yeh,..

It was for Zerafa and Crawford he didn't use Ingle.

[SeanBrennan]

He should have never taken the fight, and this isn't hindsight talking, plenty were saying it at the time, some terrible advice he received to get him to take it, we'll never know what Brook could've achieved at 147 because of that.

Indeed. Did Ingle train him for this one? I know he used that retired pro for a fight or two. To save money iirc.

yeh,..

It was for Zerafa and Crawford he didn't use Ingle.

thanks for clarifying Ruthless, appreciated.