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Boxing World Reacts To Kell Brook's Corner Throwing In The Towel Against GGG

Conall Cahill
By Conall Cahill
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So, Kell Brook has been beaten for the first time in his professional career by Gennady Golovkin in their world middleweight title fight.

It was billed as a huge uphill battle before the fight for Brook as he sought to dethrone the man known as 'GGG' - and at a different weight from his preferred welterweight, meeting Golovkin at middleweight.

As the early rounds progressed, however, Brook was putting up a serious challenge.

The fight progressed into the fourth and fifth rounds, with both standing toe to toe and the fight seeming fairly even overall.

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But in the fifth round, suddenly, Brook's corner threw in the towel. Brook confessed after the fight that he "couldn't see" - a suspected eye socket injury the cause of his distress.

There was mixed reaction to the decision to throw in the towel..

Brook admitted after the fight that he would have fought on, while his cornerman seemed irritated at the crowd's negative reaction to his call. Golovkin insisted he hadn't been hurt by Brook, but that he respected his opponent for moving up a weight category to fight him.

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