Golovkin v Brook: Kell Brook says Dominic Ingle was right to stop fight
Monday 12 September 2016 22:47, UK
Kell Brook admits he avoided being seriously hurt after trainer Dominic Ingle threw in the towel during his clash with middleweight king Gennady Golovkin.
The 30-year-old, the reigning IBF welterweight champion, suffered a broken right eye socket in his attempts to dethrone WBA 'Super', IBF and WBC middleweight champion Golovkin at The O2 on Saturday.
Ingle took the decision to throw in the towel in the fifth round following a barrage of unanswered punches from Golovkin that left Brook pinned on the ropes.
The decision to end the fight was met by boos from the sold-out crowd inside the arena, but Brook believes Ingle took decisive action and prevented him from suffering further damage.
"Everyone's got their own opinion. I came back from the second round and said I could not see out of the right eye to Dominic and I was talking to him," Brook told Sky Sports News HQ.
"He knows me and has seen me growing up as a kid, he is like a father figure. He is watching and if people look back, it was the right decision and I can fight another day.
"He could see I was getting caught and it could have ended seriously bad."
Brook, who will undergo surgery to repair the damage to his eye socket on Monday in his home city of Sheffield, is already targeting a quick return to the ring following his first career defeat and believes his future lies in the light-middleweight division.
And Brook says he will be keeping a close eye on next Saturday's WBO light-middleweight title fight between former sparring partner Liam Smith and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, insisting that he would like to face the winner.
"I think it was so easy making middleweight and I filled out to the weight, but I believe my weight and strengths are going to be at 154lbs, light-middleweight," he added.
"I think I'll be unstoppable at that weight and I am looking at the Canelo and Smith fight next week, I would love the winner.
"People have seen I have got a big heart in there and I am willing to fight with the biggest punchers. I have got so much more to give and at 154lbs, I think it's going to be my weight."
