Bairnardo Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 A rewatch without the frantic nervousness of occasion will show an absolute battering tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 It was correct to stop. Khan was only holding his hands up, no offence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Decent contest. Anna excited me more though.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Mayweather is sitting in a strip club somewhere just now telling Antonio Brown and Kanye that Amir Khan said he could beat him. Kell was superb. He would have beaten Khan anytime in the last decade. The rounds against GGG and Spence when his eye socket wasn't broken showed how good he was but he didn't have the career he could have had. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Brook v Eubank jnr next then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Just now, Lester Freamon said: Brook v Eubank jnr next then. Brook's not the brightest but he's not daft enough to fight a guy who just had a dominant win at middleweight (again). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, Detournement said: Mayweather is sitting in a strip club somewhere just now telling Antonio Brown and Kanye that Amir Khan said he could beat him. Kell was superb. He would have beaten Khan anytime in the last decade. The rounds against GGG and Spence when his eye socket wasn't broken showed how good he was but he didn't have the career he could have had. Totally agree. I don't think it mattered when these two fought the outcome was always going to be Brook by stoppage. Brook probably has another big fight in him going up to fight Eubank JR for the bucks on PPV but certainly won't be anywhere near a world title again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Just now, Detournement said: Brook's not the brightest but he's not daft enough to fight a guy who just had a dominant win at middleweight (again). I think he will take that fight in a heartbeat if the money is huge. Eubank is no prime Golovkin and I don't rate him much at all despite the obvious weight advantage he will have I think that's a decent fight for both as neither are world level (Kell over the hill, Eubank just not good enough). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 minute ago, Neilly said: I think he will take that fight in a heartbeat if the money is huge. Eubank is no prime Golovkin and I don't rate him much at all despite the obvious weight advantage he will have I think that's a decent fight for both as neither are world level (Kell over the hill, Eubank just not good enough). If he does.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Khan just couldn’t recover at all from getting rocked in that first round. From that point onwards you could visibly see Khan didn’t have strong legs underneath him, his punches were coming from the torso and not from the legs. Rewound back there just to see that 1st round combo again from Brook, and it actually came from a straight backhand that fell short, which Khan tried to counter at the same time as Brook moved forward with a very stiff jab. It’s actually very clever from Brook as the majority of boxers who fight orthodox will usually set up a combo with their jab hand and finish with the right, purely because it’s easier/more natural for them to do that in that stance. Khan was naive to think that Brook falling short with the right was the time to try and counter, and Brook showed some genuinely world class skill to just slip to his left and throw that extra punch that Khan wasn’t expecting. Im sure Khan had watched a lot of previous Kell Brook fights in the build up, and I’m also sure that extra left hand after falling short is something that they would have noticed and worked on in the gym over and over again. Khans instructions after he made Brook fall short would have been to pull back and change the angle, not sit in range and try and throw something back. Khans never been known as a particularly clever fighter though, and after he got tagged it was only a matter of when and not if the fight would be stopped. Edited February 20, 2022 by IrishBhoy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 minute ago, Detournement said: If he does.... Prime Golovkin at middleweight was balls way above taking on Eubank at middleweight for even more money. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, Neilly said: Prime Golovkin at middleweight was balls way above taking on Eubank at middleweight for even more money. I don't know how old you are but what you can do at 27 and 35 are miles and miles apart. Edited February 19, 2022 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Watching Amir Khan take a sustained beating, is simply glorious. Brook had him rocked in every round, and it was only a matter of time from that first wobble in the first round. Khan was missing with almost everything and even when he did connect, Brook just walked through him. Thoroughly enjoyable fight, that I’ll almost certainly watch again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, IrishBhoy said: Khan was naive to think that Brook falling short with the right was the time to try and counter, and Brook showed some genuinely world class skill to just slip to his left and throw that extra punch that Khan wasn’t expecting Khan was stupid to fight at that tempo in the first round. He was bouncing during the instructions and obviously far too hyped up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBo10 Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Khan was well beaten. Brook controlled the fight other than the second round. He should stop now. Eubank would beat him I think but Eubank is a fud who talks like he’s in the class of Hagler when he’s thirty fights in and won f**k all. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 21 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: A rewatch without the frantic nervousness of occasion will show an absolute battering tbh. I’ve just literally rewound it to the first bell and watched it again. Khan was having the better of the 1st round until he got rocked, and had a bit of success in rounds 2 and 3 with both ending in Brook landing clean and Khan trying to move and hold until the bell. I think Khan had a bit of success in every round to be fair, but nothing that came close to really troubling Brook. When Brook had a bit of success though, he was landing clean and able to put punches together. It was definitely stopped slightly early but certainly no complaints, Khan was either going to take many more rounds of punishment or more likely end up sprawled on the canvas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Khan pretty much confirming that’s his finished. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilly Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 7 minutes ago, Detournement said: I don't know how old you are but what you can do at 27 and 35 are miles and miles apart. He will know himself he's not the same fighter but money talks. He's a natural 154 fighter really now so going to 160 again to fight a non world class operator like Eubank will hardly be something he will turn down if he wants to continue fighting. Eubank was schooled by a shot to bits George Groves lest we forget. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Detournement said: Khan was stupid to fight at that tempo in the first round. He was bouncing during the instructions and obviously far too hyped up. I can’t say I really noted that as anything out of the ordinary for Khan, I think he will have been told before that fight not to trade in range but use his footwork and hand speed to be able to lead Brook in, move out of range when he misses and change the angle coming back in. It’s actually a combo you see a lot of amateur fighters struggle with, as most are programmed into ‘one-two’, ‘double jab straight right’ or ‘jab to the body right over the top’. They don’t expect a fighter to miss with a one two and throw that final jab as they are trying to counter, and that was the exact trap Khan fell into tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 I was watching on ESPN+ and Timothy Bradley said 10 or 20 seconds before the big punch in the first round that Khan was wasting too much energy. I don't think Khan ever had any confidence he could beat Brook, he took fights like Canelo and Crawford he was never winning rather than risking fighting Brook. I got ESPN+ for $7 on a VPN which also includes the Taylor fight next week. Timothy Bradley was on Zoom from his house and was sitting in front of a painting of him punching Pacquiao which was amusing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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