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Kell Brook has defended trainer Dominic Ingle amid criticism of his decision to throw in the towel during his WBC and IBF middleweight title defeat by Gennady Golovkin.With Brook under intense pressure from the champions latest assault, already appearing tired and his right eye cut and swollen, Ingle ended the fight to conclude a resilient performance.The challenger was taken to hospital with a broken eye socket before being released in the early hours of Sunday morning. He is to be operated on in the coming week, before preparing for an eventual return to the ring at light-middleweight.I came back after the second round and said I cant see out of the right eye, Dominic, Brook, 30, told Sky Sports. I was talking to him, and he knows me, he saw me growing up as a kid.Hes like a father figure. It was the right decision and I can fight another day. I was getting caught, and getting caught. It could have ended up seriously bad.As much as the loss has been gutting and upsetting, Im excited and happy the fans have seen a great battle against a great fighter, a throwback fighter.Im looking forward to getting straight back in the top boys. Ive had a taste of this magnitude of fight and I want this again. Ill be back and Ill be twice as strong and twice as fast.Brook had been the significant underdog having stepped up from welterweight against one of the worlds leading and most destructive fighters. Few observers believed him capable of winning, but his promoter Eddie Hearn regardless maintained fighting Golovkin was the right thing to do.Peter Nelson [executive president of American television network HBO] has already come up to me and said: We need to talk about Kell Brook, said Hearn. That was part of the plan: to broaden the brand. So actually, it was a very smart move.Brooks domestic rival Amir Khan last fought at 155lbs when losing to Mexicos Saul Alvarez in May but is expected to return at welterweight in 2017.The weight Brook gained to challenge Golovkin, combined with his previous, intense struggles to make the 147lb limit means he is likely incapable of returning there. Hearn, however, again spoke of his desire to match the two together.As a promoter there is nothing better in a build-up than two fighters who dont particularly like each other, the 37-year-old said.For now its about getting that eye socket tidied up, having some rest and hell probably be returning in the spring, summer next year. Toronto Raptors Pro Shop . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. 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Dickey hopes to pick up where he left off before the All-Star break on Saturday against the Oakland As, when he makes his 20th start of the season.As right-hander Sonny Gray hopes to put a nightmarish first half of the season behind him and make a fresh start against the Blue Jays.Dickey went 2-6 with a 4.64 ERA in his first 11 starts of the season but was 5-3 with a 3.02 ERA in his final eight starts before the break. Hes won three of his past four starts, striking out 24 and walking seven during that stretch.The month of Aprils never been real kind to him, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Friday. He came into spring training focused on trying to (get off to a fast start), but you know, these guys that have been around a while, you can almost bank on it that what they do every year, its almost going to happen. Some of its got to be mental a little bit too, but hes been on a nice little run.Dickey said theres no real rhyme or reason for his slow starts.I think maybe the warmer temperatures probably help a little bit with the pitch that I throw, Dickey said. I feel like Ive gotten it back to where I need it to be. But yeah, Im traditionally a pretty slow starter.Gray, who finished third in the American League Cy Young Award voting last season, has never experienced such a horrible start. Hes 3-8 with 5.16 ERA and hasnt won a game since April 22. Hes lost a career-high seven straight decisions and had a 6.16 ERRA during that 12-game stretch.ddddddddddddWhats happened in the past has happened in the past, Gray said. You can come out and take tomorrows start and go out and try and win a game. I think just taking that approach and whatever happened in the first half of the season kind of just throw that to the side and start here. I feel really good and feel good about that.Dickey is 5-5 with a 3.12 ERA in 18 career appearances, including 14 starts, against the As. At the Oakland Coliseum, hes 1/3 with a 2.78 ERA in eight games, including six starts.Its a great pitchers park usually, Dickey said, of the Coliseum. Ive always enjoyed the foul territory here in particular.The As hit three home runs in their 8-7 victory Friday night in the series opener, a two-run blast by Khris Davis and solo shots by Josh Reddick and Stephen Vogt, but theyll have to adjust Saturday in a rare test against a knuckleball pitcher.I see it and hit it, Reddick said of his approach. Ive always been told that on a knuckleballer you sit fastball and swing under the knuckleball. I pretty much just guess where its going to be and hopefully it is there.He throws it a little firmer than most of them. Back in the day hed throw his knuckleball like 85 (mph) and then his fastball was like 88 when I faced him in the minors. And now it seems like hes slowed it down for more movement. ' ' '