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RTV: Kell Brook looked good against Carson Jones in the rematch. What were your thoughts?
EH: Kell was in a similar position to Darren Barker with injuries postponing fights and holding things back. He was so down on himself and has been really unlucky over the last eighteen months.
Prior to the first scheduled match with Devon Alexander his injury was more of a niggle and, in hindsight, we should have perhaps went through with the fight. Still, it was important for Kell to be in perfect shape and you can’t blame him for that.
The second time he was in beast mode and we believe Kell would have stopped Alexander had that fight went ahead. Still, when Devon tore his bicep it seemed to break Kell mentally and he never recovered. A ten-week camp had been for nothing, so he went on holiday, came back too heavy and a serious foot injury caused a third postponement.
altKell still wasn’t there mentally six weeks out from the Jones rematch and I told him to get on with it, which kicked him into gear. He started like a train against Jones, looked spectacular, got a bit sloppy but finished well and that was him at about 70 percent capacity.
RTV: Vyacheslav Senchenko is another good test. What would your plans be for Brook should he be successful in Sheffield?
EH: Senchenko is definitely a hard test and although people want Kell to fight King Kong this, by far, is the best opponent he has been in with. Commercially, Senchenko ended Ricky Hatton’s career, which is a great selling point for us but he’s a former world champion who is coming to win.
If Kell comes through then I will go immediately to either Amir Khan or Adrien Broner for spring or summer in the UK.
RTV: Adrien Broner for Kell Brook?
EH: Yes. You see there are fans that dislike pay-per-view but what it does is present opportunities to make crazy fights and Brook vs. Broner is my idea of a crazy fight. Fans would turn around and say ‘where the hell did that come from?’
Pay-per-view creates a revenue stream capable of bringing a fighter like Broner over here to fight one of our own for a world title. In the U.K., Brook vs. Broner is an enormous fight. Brook vs. Khan, between two Brits, is an enormous fight.
At the end of the day the winner of Alexander vs. Khan would be obligated to fight Kell anyway. If Khan wins he may elect to fight Mayweather in a unification fight, which would supersede his mandatory, but I don’t see that happening.
I spoke to Amir the other day and when you look at the numbers for a pay-per-view fight against Kell, with a gate of approximately 30,000, there is no bigger fight out there. If he really believes he beats Brook then he has to take the fight.
RTV: How receptive was Amir to making a fight with Brook?
EH: Very, because everyone is receptive to money. I’ve had discussions with Richard Schaefer in relation to both Brook vs. Khan and Brook vs. Broner. When you sit down and look at the numbers you can’t ignore them and when U.S. television is involved these fights will present huge paydays.
I don’t know what Broner makes for a fight. Let’s say $1.5 million. He’d get double that for a fight with Kell Brook over here. That is too big to ignore and that is the beauty of the pay-per-view model.
We can’t flood the market with them but pay-per-view does present the opportunity to make boxing huge again with events of this magnitude.
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EH: Kell was in a similar position to Darren Barker with injuries postponing fights and holding things back. He was so down on himself and has been really unlucky over the last eighteen months.
Prior to the first scheduled match with Devon Alexander his injury was more of a niggle and, in hindsight, we should have perhaps went through with the fight. Still, it was important for Kell to be in perfect shape and you can’t blame him for that.
The second time he was in beast mode and we believe Kell would have stopped Alexander had that fight went ahead. Still, when Devon tore his bicep it seemed to break Kell mentally and he never recovered. A ten-week camp had been for nothing, so he went on holiday, came back too heavy and a serious foot injury caused a third postponement.
altKell still wasn’t there mentally six weeks out from the Jones rematch and I told him to get on with it, which kicked him into gear. He started like a train against Jones, looked spectacular, got a bit sloppy but finished well and that was him at about 70 percent capacity.
RTV: Vyacheslav Senchenko is another good test. What would your plans be for Brook should he be successful in Sheffield?
EH: Senchenko is definitely a hard test and although people want Kell to fight King Kong this, by far, is the best opponent he has been in with. Commercially, Senchenko ended Ricky Hatton’s career, which is a great selling point for us but he’s a former world champion who is coming to win.
If Kell comes through then I will go immediately to either Amir Khan or Adrien Broner for spring or summer in the UK.
RTV: Adrien Broner for Kell Brook?
EH: Yes. You see there are fans that dislike pay-per-view but what it does is present opportunities to make crazy fights and Brook vs. Broner is my idea of a crazy fight. Fans would turn around and say ‘where the hell did that come from?’
Pay-per-view creates a revenue stream capable of bringing a fighter like Broner over here to fight one of our own for a world title. In the U.K., Brook vs. Broner is an enormous fight. Brook vs. Khan, between two Brits, is an enormous fight.
At the end of the day the winner of Alexander vs. Khan would be obligated to fight Kell anyway. If Khan wins he may elect to fight Mayweather in a unification fight, which would supersede his mandatory, but I don’t see that happening.
I spoke to Amir the other day and when you look at the numbers for a pay-per-view fight against Kell, with a gate of approximately 30,000, there is no bigger fight out there. If he really believes he beats Brook then he has to take the fight.
RTV: How receptive was Amir to making a fight with Brook?
EH: Very, because everyone is receptive to money. I’ve had discussions with Richard Schaefer in relation to both Brook vs. Khan and Brook vs. Broner. When you sit down and look at the numbers you can’t ignore them and when U.S. television is involved these fights will present huge paydays.
I don’t know what Broner makes for a fight. Let’s say $1.5 million. He’d get double that for a fight with Kell Brook over here. That is too big to ignore and that is the beauty of the pay-per-view model.
We can’t flood the market with them but pay-per-view does present the opportunity to make boxing huge again with events of this magnitude.
LINK: RINGTV
I finally found someone to debate him with, he's one of my favorites.
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