GGG v Brook talking points

Gennady Golovkin marches on as Kell Brook wins respect in defeat. Here’s what we learned from ‘the big drama show’…

The man machine

There is nobody quite like Gennady Golovkin. The freakish brutality and pure fight that lives in the Kazakh was there for all to see as he swept aside a remarkably composed and technically superior performance from Brook. He embraces threat. Then he eliminates it.

His subdued appearances in the latter stages of fight week led some to claim he was suffering with everything from illness to jet-lag to road rage. He was certainly not as economical in his work as usual; seemingly frustrated by Brook’s artistic defiance. If anything, that provided a platform for his sheer physicality to shine the brighter.

Golovkin has rarely seemed in such a rush. There were few of the surgeon-like combinations that have wowed fans the world over and much more a one-track desire to overwhelm his opponent and prove that no middleweight – least of all one he deems a masquerading welterweight – can waylay him on his path of destruction.

Skills for days

It was a stunning effort from challenger Brook, who seemed stumbled in the first half of the very first round. The in-running odds of an early Golovkin stoppage must have tumbled when the left hook downstairs was followed by one to the head but by the end of the same session, Brook had established himself with a thundering uppercut of his own.

The fact Golovkin seemed to nod, appreciate and almost welcome Brook’s attempts to pull off a stunning upset with full-blooded blows of his own should not detract from their accuracy. Nor should it be assumed that the champion was telling the whole truth when he claimed afterwards that he had not been hurt …

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