Kell Brook: record, next fight and profile →
Former world champion Amir Khan is still putting together his plans fir the future. Khan, 33-years-old, has been out of the ring since July of 2019, when he stopped late replacement Billy Dib in Saudi Arabia. He wants to continue his career in the welterweight division and currently there are no plans to move up in weight.
Liam Smith is pushing and doing everything possible to set down a fight with fellow former world champion Kell Brook. Brook returned to the ring last month in Sheffield, snapping a 14 month layoff with a one-sided knockout of Mark DeLuca. Smith was sitting at ringside and made it clear that he wanted to face Brook next.
Eddie Hearn is fully prepared to match former world champions, Kell Brook and Liam Smith, in a big domestic showdown. Earlier this month, Smith was ringside when Brook snapped a 14 month layoff with a knockout of Mark DeLuca in Sheffield.
Former world champion Kell Brook is still haunted by his knockout loss at the hands of Errol Spence, who holds the IBF, WBC welterweight titles. Brook, who at the time held the IBF strap at 147-pounds, was making a mandatory defense against Spence in May of 2017 in Sheffield.
Kell Brook says he is keen to go down any road that leads to a world title shot after starting what he believes is the next chapter of his career with a knockout win over Mark DeLuca in Sheffield. The former IBF welterweight champion took seven rounds to get rid of the former US Marine, who was brave, but outclassed. If he gets a world-title shot this year, as he wants, the next step up is a big one.
Liam Smith is licking his lips at the prospect of fighting Kell Brook. The former WBO super-welterweight world champion was ringside in Sheffield on Saturday night to watch the Yorkshireman return from a 14-month hiatus. Brook was in against America’s Mark DeLuca at the FlyDSA Arena, exclusively live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN Stateside, and dropped him twice before stopping him after one minute and 15 seconds of the seventh round.
Liam Smith believes that a fight between him and Kell Brook could be a perfect chief support for Anthony Joshua’s fight with Kubrat Pulev. Smith, the former WBO champion, and Brook are both eying world title shots in the 154lb division, but with no obvious opportunities available, an all-British clash between the pair of them could be a lucrative option.
Former world champion Kell Brook is not even thinking about his domestic rival, Amir Khan. The fight has been mentioned for several years, but a deal was never close to being finalized. Last year, when promoter Eddie Hearn was working with both boxers, he tried his best to get them in the ring - with Khan going in another direction by challenging WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford in the United States.
Kell Brook will be confident that he has enough left in the tank to win another world title. The former IBF welterweight king stepped up in weight after a 14-month hiatus to get the better of Mark DeLuca. Brook, who said recently that it would take seven figures for him to get into the ring with former WBO champion Liam Smith in an all-British showdown, dropped his man in the third at the FlyDSA Arena in Sheffield as he showed flashes of what we know he once had.
Kell Brook’s message was clear in the post-fight press conference after the Super Welterweight returned to action from a 14-month lay-off to beat Mark DeLuca with a seventh round stoppage in Sheffield on Saturday night. The former IBF Welterweight world champion, now 33, who is being linked with a fight against Matchroom stablemate Liam Smith, picked up the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight strap with win number 39 from 41.. The WBO currently has Liam Smith as their number two contender and Brook will now move into the top 15 when the next set of ratings are published.