Jamie Cox Throws Down a Challenge To Kell Brook

By Terence Dooley

Jamie Cox scored a points win over Janos Petrovics at the Oasis Leisure Centre, Swindon on Saturday night, the undefeated fighter, 22, then threw down the gauntlet to welterweight rival Kell Brook. 

Cox won gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he told the BBC that he is the man to hand Brook a first professional defeat.  “I'm stronger than Kell,” he claimed.  “I've got a better boxing brain; if he's Special Kell then I'm the Honey Monster!”

Petrovics was coming off four losses; however, Cox believes that he handed the Hungarian a defeat without really boxing to the best of his ability.  “I had a game plan and I just got carried away and didn't execute it the way I should have,” he said.  “But it was great to get eight rounds under my belt and use my boxing skills.”

Cox is 11-0 (7KOs) as a pro, Kell Brook, though, has his sights set on a mega domestic showdown with former world title challenger Michael Jennings, Cox may have to wait a little bit longer for his shot at ‘Special K’.

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