When Eddie Hearn mentioned Kell Brook to Amir Khan a couple weeks ago during an Instagram Live interview, Khan asked if Brook could still make 147 pounds.

Whereas the weight is Khan’s concern, the long-discussed domestic showdown between these British rivals is more about the wait for Brook. The former IBF welterweight champion told Hearn as part of his own Instagram Live interview Friday that he essentially has grown tired of waiting for Khan to agree to fight him.

“I’ve given that angle up because there’s no more I can [do], you know, because it’s gone past the line now, for me,” Brook said to his promoter. “I’ve done everything that’s been asked of me to make it happen. It’s still gone nowhere.”

Brook is much more interested now in a more meaningful welterweight fight against an opponent that stopped Khan almost a year ago. Sheffield’s Brook expressed optimism to Hearn about the probability of fighting Terence Crawford next.

Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs) said recently that Brook is a potential opponent for his next defense of the WBO welterweight title, once the COVID-19 pandemic comes to an end.

Brook (39-2, 27 KOs) didn’t dismiss entirely, though, the possibility of encountering Khan (34-5, 21 KOs) at some point.

“With me and Khan, you know, we can talk,” Brook said. “When the money’s right, we can make the fight happen.”

The 33-year-old Khan has been adamant about not boxing Brook above the welterweight limit of 147 pounds.

The 33-year-old Brook’s past three fights have been contested within the junior middleweight division. He hasn’t made the welterweight limit since Errol Spence Jr. knocked him out in the 11th round and won the IBF title from him in May 2017.

Bolton’s Khan has boxed above 147 pounds just twice.

Canelo Alvarez knocked out Khan in the sixth round of the first of those two fights in May 2016. That WBC middleweight championship match was contested at a contracted catch weight of 155 pounds.

In his subsequent bout, Khan stopped Phil Lo Greco in the first round in April 2018. The contracted catch weight for that fight was 150 pounds. 

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.