{"id":247327,"date":"2016-09-11T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247327"},"modified":"2016-09-11T08:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:40:40","slug":"gennady-golovkin-beats-kell-brook-with-fifth-round-stoppage-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/gennady-golovkin-beats-kell-brook-with-fifth-round-stoppage-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Gennady Golovkin beats Kell Brook with fifth-round stoppage in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kell Brook’s audacious bid to dethrone middleweight king Gennady Golovkin came to nothing as the Briton was stopped in the fifth round at London’s O2.<\/p>\n
Brook, 30, the reigning IBF welterweight champion, jumped two divisions to challenge Golovkin.<\/p>\n
He showed tremendous bravery and got plenty of shots through the Kazakh’s defences, but was finally ground down.<\/p>\n
And with shots raining down on Brook in the fifth round, his trainer Dominic Ingle threw in the towel.<\/p>\n
It was Brook’s first defeat in his 37th professional fight, while the undefeated Golovkin now has 33 knockouts from 36 fights, including 23 in a row.<\/p>\n
He was taken to hospital as a precaution after revealing he suffered a broken eye socket in the second round and had blurred vision.<\/p>\n
“I was frustrating him. I was starting to settle into it but when you see three, four, five of them it’s difficult,” he said.<\/p>\n
Golovkin backed Ingle’s decision, saying: “I think he’s smart, I respect his corner. Seriously, the last round he couldn’t breathe or move.”<\/p>\n