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The funny thing is, Brook is way more marketable and likeable than Khan. He has a bigger future ahead of him and less miles on the clock; he's more well liked in his home country; he's also tougher, hits way harder and actually has experience headlining his own pay-per-view events while Khan's fights wind up on BoxNation at three in the morning watched by a couple of thousand hardcore UK fight fans.
There's a reason AK doesn't fight in the UK any more – British fight fans can't stand him. Brit fans despise unentitled arrogance. Hamed got away with it for years because he was knocking people out and backing up his big talk, but Khan has lost four times now, he's been knocked out three times and he's blatantly avoided a fight with Brook for years, even after Brook went to America and beat Porter (which Khan did NOT expect him to do) and even after he had the stones to step up two weight classes (unlike Khan who fought a catchweight) to fight the baddest man on the planet (and actually tried to win unlike Khan who ran like a track athlete from Canelo till he got smoked).
Khan is an egocentric twat with delusions of grandeur, even though he just got absolutely blitzed in his last fight and hasn't held a world title in nearly FIVE YEARS. Let him have a pointless warm-up fight (even though he's 30 and hasn't held a world title in nearly five years, despite portraying himself as an elite boxer) while Brook headlines a pay-per-view against a young lion like Spence.
Pretty clear which boxer is reaching for glory at this point rather than holding himself in high esteem while dodging fights and making no attempt to give the fans a showdown they've been demanding for years.
The funny thing is, Brook is way more marketable and likeable than Khan. He has a bigger future ahead of him and less miles on the clock; he's more well liked in his home country; he's also tougher, hits way harder and actually has experience headlining his own pay-per-view events while Khan's fights wind up on BoxNation at three in the morning watched by a couple of thousand hardcore UK fight fans.
There's a reason AK doesn't fight in the UK any more – British fight fans can't stand him. Brit fans despise unentitled arrogance. Hamed got away with it for years because he was knocking people out and backing up his big talk, but Khan has lost four times now, he's been knocked out three times and he's blatantly avoided a fight with Brook for years, even after Brook went to America and beat Porter (which Khan did NOT expect him to do) and even after he had the stones to step up two weight classes (unlike Khan who fought a catchweight) to fight the baddest man on the planet (and actually tried to win unlike Khan who ran like a track athlete from Canelo till he got smoked).
Khan is an egocentric twat with delusions of grandeur, even though he just got absolutely blitzed in his last fight and hasn't held a world title in nearly FIVE YEARS. Let him have a pointless warm-up fight (even though he's 30 and hasn't held a world title in nearly five years, despite portraying himself as an elite boxer) while Brook headlines a pay-per-view against a young lion like Spence.
Pretty clear which boxer is reaching for glory at this point rather than holding himself in high esteem while dodging fights and making no attempt to give the fans a showdown they've been demanding for years.
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