Were Kell Brook's eye injuries related?

Probably not... but it doesn't take much to break an orbital bone. It's about getting hit in the right place moreso than sheer force. My friend took a baseball to the eye and all he got was swelling and a black eye. Then another time he took a soccer ball to the eye and his socket broke.

 

This begs the question, were those events in chronological order?

Because that sort of plays into what the OP was driving at...whether the bat (& GGG) weakened the bone enough for the soccer ball (and Spence) to be the accumulative final straw on the camel's back? Ie maybe there were minor fissures present but not a full beeak, sufficient for the later trauma, albeit lesser, to finish the job?

 

Actually, it was just like Brook-Spence. He got nailed in one by a baseball (probably low to mid 80s fastball) and the soccer ball in the other. Instinctively, he probably turned his face and thus limited the impact?

Soccer ball was after. Probably flush. And I think a couple of years apart.

My other post on this subject matter:

I was at work today and was eating lunch today with my regular group and we got to talking about our weekends. I mentioned the Brook fight and my colleague said that in high school, he took a fastball (probably mid to upper 80s) to his right eye and nothing happened. Said it felt like his face exploded, but he was fine. Just a wicked black eye and swelling. Then in college, during a pick up game of soccer, the ball hit his right left eye and his socket broke. The guy was maybe 15 feet away when he kicked it. Sometimes it's just the angle rather than brute force. Anyway, he said his vision doubled and he couldn't stop pawing at it on the way to the ER. Described it like having a piece of bone in your throat, except in the eye.

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I think Kell would have naturally thought to cover the Golovkin eye a little too much, leaving the other exposed.

 

This is what I immediately thought of when it happened, did Golovkin pound both sides
of his fact to mush, that Spence finished the job on the left eye.

 

Ive wondered if the near death from blood loss from the stabbing has done anything to weaken his bones.

 

I had just put a roast in the slow cooker and set the timer to 8 hours. Just three hours in, Golovkin had stopped Brook and my roast was done. Coincidence? Maybe.

 

Tenderer than Brook's face, for sure!

 

Obviously yea. Considering he was hyper aware of his one eye, he protected it by focusing his defense to protect his major weakness leaving the other side of his face to take the brunt of hits. And yea Brook is done now if he wasn't before given hindsight.

 

Golovkin made all the bones on brooks face weaker he shattered the right eye socket but the other one got weaker because of the impact.

 

i dont believe so. i just think brook has a more delicate facial bone structure, not unlike a womans. hes just been playing with bigger hammers lately. any remaining weakness caused by ggg would be noticed by brook immediately, just like one cant ignore shin splints.