Was Kell Brook's decision to fight GGG a career ender?

m.s. · Jun 21, 2024

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I don’t think he stepped in, that suggests that Eubank and golovkin was signed, iam not certain but I don’t think it was ever signed, Eubank was all hype but it was never signed.
Kell was offered it and took it without hesitation, people are saying it ended his career, but you could use the counter argument that it defined his career, he was avoided when possible and found it hard to stay in the rankings, it’s clear that he would fight anyone by the fact he fought ggg.
This is how I imagine his thought process, I can’t get a run together iam not ranked high enough for a title shot, I fear no one, if I face ggg, I will be relevant again, and if not I’ll be well paid.
The guy was not prepared to see his career fade away.
He did the unimaginable and stepped up two weight divisions to fight one of the most avoided fighters in boxing at the time, he probably did ggg a favour, it was only after he fought Kell that the rest of the division (his actual weight class) were finally willing to fight him.
So did it end his career? No it defined his career and got gggs career on track.
I love kell for so many reasons and none have anything to do with his career or accomplishments, he fought with his heart and he was a boxer’s boxer, he had poise and class, as far as the eye test goes he passed it with flying colours, he will forever be underrated, he risked everything to get the career he deserved and he did that by fighting the likes of ggg.
So no fighting ggg wasn’t a career ender it was a proper fighter who saw his last chance to actually have a career, he was not content with what he had done, he just wanted more.
kell deserved more for his career
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I agree with most that you said except him not being rated high enough for a title shot. Brook was the undefeated IBF welterweight champ, rated #1 by the Ring magazine and rated #10 PFP or there abouts. He was just fighting guy's in title defenses that were too easy to defeat. So he was losing alittle momentum. In his heart he wanted the superfight moment that was elluding him, well he got it.

lufcrazy · Jun 21, 2024

I don't think so.

He looked the goods against Spence before gassing.

mono · Jun 21, 2024

Probably. One of the biggest bonehead moves I’ve seen.

Hurrikeen · Jun 21, 2024

100%.

He’d have beaten Spence if he fought him at the time he fought GGG.

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