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Golovkin beats injured Brook
- Updated: September 10, 2016
Kell Brook’s dream turned into a disaster when his trainer called a halt to five brutal rounds as he lost to Gennady Golovkin.
Dominic Ingle waved the white towel from the corner after the British challenger had suffered damage to his right eye in an explosive encounter at The O2 Arena on Saturday night.
Brook had been caught early on by Golovkin, only to return the favour shortly after – and up against one of the hardest hitters in the game, the vision issue seemed to have the decisive impact after a barrage of unanswered shots in the fifth.
Ingle will be criticised by some for pulling the ‘Special One’ but Brook had been troubled from as early as the second. In that fifth round, he had no defence up, never mind having full vision, as knockout specialist Golovkin showed his power is savage, to say the least.
However, Brook proved that class can match and at times overhaul raw brutality and to see him ahead on the scorecards until the towel came in, showed that taking on ‘Triple G’ might have been the biggest …
