Brook's Eye Damage Was Caused By A Spence Headbutt, Not A Punch. Is An Asterisk Needed?

Hard one

The fight ended due to him getting beaten into submission, but that was due to the eye damage, so that should be taken into consideration. But on the other hand, if they had gone to the scorecards at the end, Spence would probably have edged him.
AND the fight took place in Britain and they often give TKO wins on injuries directly caused by headbutts and such (which is riduculous, I know) so this isn't really an exception.

 

I dunno it didn't seem to look completely on purpose from Spence because he was coming in with a shot of his own... even so i think Brook won 5 to 6 rounds clearly in the fight and realistically he should've never took the Spence fight but didn't want to look like a coward after Spence and his fanboys were making out he didn't want to fight Spence.

I think realistically he wanted to prove something even though he was draining himself to 147 lbs. I'd like to see the rematch. Spence is a big welterweight also.

Spence was landing body shots even in the rounds Kell was winning. A couple of those were ''pick em'' rounds for me. I don't think you can take too much away from the Spence win.

I don't view the fight as completely fair though given the circumstances but it was Kell's decision to go up in weight to fight Golovkin then drain himself to come back down to defend his belt.

I think it would be nice to see a rematch at a catchweight in the usa as Spence doesn't have a great deal of options anyway.

 

I think that would've been the best case and most fair scenario. I think if Brook stopped engaging and made a bit of a meal of it the ref potentially would've got the doctor involved but he kept exchanging and let the action flow.

 

Brook already has a bad eye from the Golovkin fight.

Head clashes are just part of the game.

 

Kell isn't done yet . He could well beat Spence in a rematch at 154 . In any case it was a heck of a good fight the first time around .

 

I've just played and replayed the punch before the butt. Spence throws his left hand over Brook's right shoulder, not at his head, and there is no excessive head movement by Brook which might have caused this. Looks like a set-up for butt to me...

 

Said it then, said it now, take away the eye injury, i dont believe theres any knockdowns and i think Brook takes a decision. Brooks got Spences number.

 

No I don't think so. Against Golovkin when the eye went, Brook repeatedly started dabbing it with his glove. Same in the Spence fight. After the headbutt he doesn't do that.

Whenever someone cuts or hurts their eye, the first thing they do is paw at it with their glove.

Regardless, Spence beat the **** out of Brook fairly.

 

That fight was in the balance before that injury, on my card Brook was ahead but Spence had definatly got the upper hand over the previous 2 rounds, looked like he had found his rythmn and sussed Brook out a bit. The injury was a damn shame and stopped the fight in its tracks and i was really enjoying the fight. It was a clear accident too.

If it had been stopped cuz of the headbutt i think it would of been called a draw and with the injury a rematch couldnt get quickly made. No point dwelling on such things really now, all we can do is hope they do rematch at some point in the future but Brooks moved up a division and both have other good options, especially Brook at 154.