I think it all made his career stutter, the guy couldn’t get any decent shots with Warren then, he got with matchroom and he was their top boy at first if I remember right, before Joshua. He got injured before he was due to fight Alexander and the fight was cancelled 3 times for various injuries. Then he beat porter and got stabbed and still fought 6 months later and that’s ridiculous to think when you saw how bad it was. He got his first title shot 9 years after turning pro that’s insane for a fighter of that quality. I think he took the ggg fight because he was trying to salvage his career and legacy that he knew he deserved. I love the guy man he’s a proper warrior
Stabbed twice but the horrific one was around that time definitely 2013 or 2014 if iam wrong fair enough hold my hands up, but the bad one was definitely the second one in Tenerife. Any way the point iam making is that he had an awful time with getting any sort of rhythm in his career. Everything seemed to conspire against him, if that makes sense.
I can not nitpick most of this except I'm not so convinced of his superiority to that Spence and think he would have eventually got KTFO by Crawford, be it at welter or light middle.
It wasn't entirely gallantry. I think the risk was calculated as Kell would go up and have a go in a huge money fight for his career where even if he lost, there was no downside. Nobody expected him to win, or even account himself as well as he did. The downside turned out to be an unforseen injury and beating. But Kell had other injuries and also it's hard to say 'could have would have' since he did pretty well for himself anyway and there's no promise he beats Spence. I do think the beating from GGG took a lot out of him.
True, but the frustrating part was that 154 was cooking in the US at the time. There was Trout, Lara, Hurd.. all winnable fights for Brook. Charlos coming through as well who he would have beaten. He could have managed to go up against Canelo as well and win, lose or draw his stock would have risen exponentially. The Khan fight probably would have happened sooner as well. Instead he made some very underwhelming defences at 147 before the destruction against GGG that ended all of it. What a waste of one of the most skilled, athletic fighters of his generation in the UK.
I seem to recall Golovkin jabbing and playing keep away from the power punching Canadian David Lemiuex. GGG wanted no parts of David. It was David who wanted a fight, but Golovkin wouldn't indulge him.
It doesn't really relate to the point I was making but Lemieux was a murderous punching KO artist and you would've had head North up to LHW and I'm not not even sure how many divisions South of MW (a lot) to find a one punch KO artist as explosive and powerful as he was at the time. GGG boxed a smart fight and knocked out the KO artist. We've seen Beterbiev get on his bike a bunch of times and try and avoid a firefight when facing a KO puncher. This content is protected
Nope, it was a last-minute option to have a world class fighter to save an event when Eubank chickened out. I guess they could have cancelled everything and made a loss, though. Kudos to Brook for having the stones to step in.
Lemieux has to be one of the hardest punching MW ever. The dude had the touch of death in his punches. So many one-shot stoppages. I'm not even a bit surprised that Golovkin decided to box and not brawl him.