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Is Brook gonna be called 'Glass Eye' now..

Let's be happy with the fight, better than we expected. Another fight of the year Candidate in the UK involving an outstanding visitor.

The fight that we wanted. Nay, demanded.

Brook's stamina always looked iffy, if you go back to the first Jones fight. (In which he had a nose injury and barely won.)

Spence might go on to be a major p4p player, even a future great. And we can look back and say, Kell Brook was able to compete in a welterweight epic, Kell Brook might've been able to beat him if he hadn't had to come down in weight, if he didn't have issues from having his cheekbone smashed by a huge punching middleweight Golovkin.

Always like it when an athletic American can box and can put the combos together and actually fight and be positive (like Terence Crawford). I think Crawford would make a great addition to welterweight. While Brook had questions coming in (eye, weight) so did Spence given he was untested and fighting away. So you have to be very encouraged by his work last night. Probably seen nowhere near the best of him.

Who cares what Lhan or Bellew think? Let's hope Brook recovers OK, can out the eye issues behind him - and let's hope he's fuller and fitter at 154-pounds. Let's hope he can gain some major titles and good scalps. Two gruelling fights with eye injuries put an end to Chris Eubank's career so fingers crossed for Kell.

Finn wrote:

darkstar81 wrote:

Finn wrote:
Of course he shouldn't have quit. If he was worried about the eye the doctor should have looked at in between rounds and his corner should have pulled him out. He fights until the the ref stops it or the corner throw in the towel.

Don't be an idiot. Not all fighters need to be saved from themselves. Brook was against Golovkin, and here he decided to save himself.

Don't be an idiot? We all follow boxing and have seen fighters carry on and win with worse injurys.

I've seen ricky burns fight 9 rounds with a snapped jaw and draw he fight to keep his titles. I saw Haye fight with one leg not long ago.

Thats fine if you think his eye was so bad it needed to be stopped but his corner obviously didn't think it was that bad and the ref didn't think it was that bad. So kel decided himself that his eye was too bad to continue and decided to quit, I'm not convinced it was.

Hardliner here...the ayatollah of punchintheeyeola....

I see Eubank Jnr is joining in the criticism of Kell now too, has he forgot that Kell jumped 2 weights to fight a guy in his division he bottled it against?

Finn wrote:

Tarquin Tarpaulin IV wrote:

Finn wrote:
Don't be an idiot? We all follow boxing and have seen fighters carry on and win with worse injurys.

I've seen ricky burns fight 9 rounds with a snapped jaw and draw he fight to keep his titles. I saw Haye fight with one leg not long ago.

Thats fine if you think his eye was so bad it needed to be stopped but his corner obviously didn't think it was that bad and the ref didn't think it was that bad. So kel decided himself that his eye was too bad to continue and decided to quit, I'm not convinced it was.

How can you compare a leg and a jaw with an eye injury?
If Brook couldn't see, then he couldn't focus, couldn't punch, couldn't defend......

But Haye could defend while not being able to stand up? Mitchell could see against linarez? AA could see against Stieglitz? It's boxing how many closed eyes have we seen? We've also seen many of those fighter carry on to win.

What's Haye and Mitchell's situation got to do with it? A couple of my mates fractured their legs playing football. One went straight to hospital in the back of an ambulance the other cycled to work the next day before getting taken to A&E. Every injury has varying symptoms and if Brook felt it difficult because he couldn't see neither you or I can judge how pronounced those symptoms were.