Jessie Vargas Focused and Eager To Shock Kell Brook in Sheffield
Jessie Vargas, who won the WBO welterweight belt in March by stopping Sadam Ali, is all set to face IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook.
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Hearn Says Smith Offer is Low For Kell Brook; Vargas To Get $1.7
WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10KOs) will receive a career high payday for his unification with IBF welterweight champ Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs). According to the Sheffield Star, Vargas will receive $1.7 million to travel across the ocean for a fight with Brook at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
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Thurman: I Need To Eliminate Brook or Garcia To Be Best at 147
Many fans and insiders feels that the winner of the upcoming Keith Thurman (26-0) versus Shawn Porter (26-1) showdown will be the best welterweight in the world. Logic suggests that both combatants would also agree with that theory and would want to be able to stake claim to mantle (in the welterweight division at least) that Floyd Mayweather left open with his retirement.
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Jessie Vargas: I'll Be Fighting Kell Brook on September 3rd
According to WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10KOs), everything has been wrapped up for his unification with IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs).
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Warren: Kell Brook Rejected £600K Plus Upside For Liam Smith
Liam Smith did what he had to do with his brutal demolition of Predrag Radosevic in Liverpool last weekend. The man from Montenegro – with one previous defeat on his card – didn’t get a chance to show resistance, but the bout served its purpose and kept Beefy busy.
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Liam Smith: Kell Brook is The Fight I'm Pushing For
After winning and retaining his WBO light-middle belt across the M62 in Manchester, unbeaten Scouse champ Liam Smith finally secures a home tie this Saturday when he defends his belt at The Echo Arena, writes Glynn Evans.
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Frank Warren: Kell Brook Wanted No Part of Liam Smith
This weekend sees the innovative free to air TV channel Dave continue their coverage of live sport. The BDO World Darts Trophy, a marathon three-day event of live darts will be live and exclusive on Dave over the bank holiday weekend. The tournament will see the top players from the BDO contest for over £150,000 in prize money. It follows hot the heels of their latest boxing event, headlined by David Haye’s capitulation of his grossly overmatched opponent, Andrei Gerjei.
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Errol Spence: Vargas Will Need KO or Beat Brook's Ass To Win in UK
Errol Spence Jr. (20-0, 17 KOs) is still waiting for the situation to play out with the IBF. The sanctioning body ordered him to Konstantin Ponomarev (30-0, 13 KOs) in an IBF final eliminator.
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Keith Thurman: We Don't Yet Know If Kell Brook is 'Really Special'
NEW YORK – Keith Thurman’s performance against Shawn Porter naturally will be compared to how Kell Brook beat Porter. That’s fine by Thurman, who would like to box Brook while trying to become the sport’s undisputed welterweight champion. Brook’s majority-decision victory over Porter in August 2014 impressed Thurman, but the undefeated WBA welterweight title-holder believes Brook still has plenty to prove before the unbeaten British champion is considered the top 147-pound performer in boxing.
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Hearn Blasts Khan, Says Brook Fight is 'Gone'
Matchroom's Barry Hearn has told Sky Sports that an all-British showdown between Sheffield's IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook and Bolton-based rival Amir Khan is no longer a viable fight following Khan’s KO loss to WBC middleweight holder Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas earlier this month.
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