Hearn Trying To Get Marquez, Rios For Brook on 6/13

By Edward Chaykovsky

Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport is trying to get the biggest fight possible for IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook on June 13th at Wembley Stadium. Brook must first overcome his mandatory challenger, Jo Jo Dan, on March 28th in Sheffield.

If Brook is successful at the end of the month, he will move forward to a big fight in June. Hearn has already made contact with the appropriate parties in order to secure former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez or welterweight contender Brandon Rios. Marquez has been inactive since last May's decision win over Mike Alvarado and Rios demolished Alvarado in their trilogy meeting in January. 

One darkhorse Hearn would consider is WBA 'regular' welterweight champion Keith Thurman, but it's unlikely that Thurman will travel to the UK for a fight with Brook.

"That is why I will make the biggest fights possible for him if he comes through this next challenge against Dan. I have already made contact with Marquez’s people and also Rios’s representatives. Marquez is a legend and that would be a huge fight and Rios has been a world champion. Thurman is also keen and a quality fighter. Any one of those guys in Sheffield in June would be a very big fight," Hearn said via Daily Mail.