• Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a fan ringside before the fight. Peter Cziborra / Action Images
    Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a fan ringside before the fight. Peter Cziborra / Action Images
  • Gennady Golovkin (blue trunks) and Kell Brook (red trunks) in action. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
    Gennady Golovkin (blue trunks) and Kell Brook (red trunks) in action. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
  • Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
  • Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
  • Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
  • Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin in action with Kell Brook. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
  • Kell Brook looks on in defeat to Gennady Golovkin after his corner threw in the towel in the fifth round. The British boxer had suffered a series of heavy blows from his opponent. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
    Kell Brook looks on in defeat to Gennady Golovkin after his corner threw in the towel in the fifth round. The British boxer had suffered a series of heavy blows from his opponent. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
  • Gennady Golovkin celebrates after winning the fight. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin celebrates after winning the fight. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
  • Gennady Golovkin celebrates his victory over Kell Brook. Nick Potts / PA
    Gennady Golovkin celebrates his victory over Kell Brook. Nick Potts / PA
  • Kell Brook with trainer Dominic Ingle in his corner. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
    Kell Brook with trainer Dominic Ingle in his corner. Richard Heathcote / Getty Images
  • Gennady Golovkin celebrates after winning the fight. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images
    Gennady Golovkin celebrates after winning the fight. Andrew Couldridge / Action Images

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Kell Brook’s corner throw in the towel as middleweight king Gennady Golovkin reigns supreme at London’s O2 Arena — in pictures

Liz Claus

September 11, 2016

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Gennady Golovkin defended his WBC and IBF middleweight titles with a fifth-round stoppage at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday, and immediately called out Briton’s WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders for a unification bout.

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