Robert Garcia: Why is Kell Brook ducking Rios?

Fair enough. Only time will tell.

 

Shameful duck by kell

 

You must be kidding. Rios is a punching bag.

 

Brook did want khan, who turned it down. What people say on camera and what happens behind closed doors are two different things, boxing's a business, and Rios has little name value in UK (neither goes gavin admittedly) he'll probably get 4x in the USA than what Gavins getting, I doubt it'll make that much difference to ppv / ticket sales in the UK if brook fought gavin or rios.

I'd rather see a brook vs rios fight, or a brook vs Thurman fight for that matter, but that's not how boxing business works. If Rios says "i'll fight brook for $100k" then fine brooks ducking, but I suspect that's not the case.

Thurman's last 3 opponents have been a shot guerrero, a 40year old bundu who had him running, and diaz? not exactly murders row is it. Lets see who he fights next.

 

Look we know Rios fought Pac and that's why you're pushing him as some sort of monster but he been found wanting against the top fighters where he has been outclassed badly. The Abril and Pac fights were one sided bore fests and losing to Alvarado is flat out embarrassing. Without the weight advantage he carried at 135 he's really nothing to worry about. He's got a good chin but that's the only part of him that his genuinely world class.

Brook delivers another one sided loss to Rios easily.

 

Brook beats rios and Bradley IMO. Brooks timing is so so good it's unreal. Still think he would have major probs with Thurman and khan though.

 

To sell Gavin to ignorant UK fans, PPV fight vs Gavin and his last defense was vs JoJo atsch
He surprised me vs Porter who is far from anything special, but thats good win and now he has 2 of the worst defenses back to back in last who knows how many years :dead

 

I'm not saying gavin is a good opponent he's clearly not, but neither is Rios. You seem to think that someone talking **** in front of a camera is an offer and any rejection of this is a duck, Anyone can do that, I could do that calling out klitscho, doesn't mean he's ducking me. Rios isn't ranked by IBF, he's done little at WW why does he deserve a brook fight? Jojo dan may be **** but at least he bothered going around the world fighting eliminators to get his shot.

and when did diaz become good, he'd lost around 10 times at lower weights before Thurman fought him.

 

think his defences are better than quiggs and santa cruz's

the WW division does need a shake up and Floyd dropping his belts and possibly retiring should help, khans staying safe hoping for Floyd, brooks hoping for khan, maidana, Bradley, Thurman, possibly Garcia moving up too. There's some decent fights between them lot, but they don't want to risk a loss in the hope they get a huge payday.

i'll give him a pass on jojo, as its mando + he was coming back from an injury, not remotely impressed with Gavin, but to be fair to brook they did offer the fight to Khan, who turned it down, and gavin isn't much worse than rios imo. If he's going to fight 4 times a year I don't mind a few **** ones its when boxers (kahn) fight twice a year and still pick someone way down the rankings that really annoys me.