until that beautiful check hook changed everything. That was one of the stiffest/sneakiest check hooks I've ever seen.

I've always enjoyed watching Brook - he brings it every time and ducks nobody - but unfortunately he hasn't quite been the same since that brutal GGG knockout where he suffered a broken eye-socket. It was an accumulative beat-down (far more damaging long-term than a quick, one-shot KO) from a very heavy-handed prime GGG - and I was hoping that fight would've been stopped sooner because it's hard for fighters to come back from *that* kind of dismantling.

Since then - when Brook gets brought to that dark place - it really takes the wind out of his sails (as it would for anybody). But he's always game (and shows flashes of elitism) while he's fresh.

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