Despite a game effort by welterweight Kell Brook through four rounds Saturday at London, his trainer threw in the towel following a furious attack from Gennady Golovkin in the fifth. The victory, Golovkin’s 23rd consecutive knockout, was his 17th straight middleweight title triumph in defense of his International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Council belts. “Absolutely, a fight of this magnitude should’ve carried on,” Brook said on the telecast. Today, I was not boxing world class. Although Golovkin expressed continued interest in adding a fourth middleweight belt by fighting England’s World Boxing Organization champion Billy Joe Saunders, Loeffler said he’ll pursue the World Boxing Assn.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2016 23:28 UTC