Kell Brook: record, next fight and profile →
Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport is planning big things for former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs). Brook suffered back to back stoppage losses and is now planning to make some big changes for his comeback fight - like moving his career to a new weight division.
Kell Brook has vowed to return to the ring by the end of the year after a successful operation on his fractured right eye socket. Brook sustained the injury in his clash with Errol Spence at Bramall Lane in Sheffield in May where he lost his IBF Welterweight crown to the American in front of a huge crowd at the home of Sheffield United FC.
Former world champion and fight promoter Barry McGuigan has given high praise to both Errol Spence and Kell Brook. Last month, before a crowd of 27,000 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, Spence (22-0, 19 KOs) pulled off an eleven round stoppage of Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) to capture the IBF welterweight championship.
IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence (22-0, 19 KOs) is hoping to secure the biggest fight possible in the coming future. Spence is coming off his career defining victory and wants an even bigger a name to add to his record. Last month, Spence traveled to Sheffield and stopped Kell Brook in eleven rounds to capture the IBF title before a crowd of 27,000 in the champion's home venue of Bramall Lane.
For the last two weeks, former world champion Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) has been taking a lot of heat for the way his recent title defense played. Back on May 27th, before 27,000 fans at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, Brook was stopped in the eleventh round by mandatory challenger Errol Spence (22-0, 19 KOs).
NEW YORK – Errol Spence Jr.’s stoppage of Kell Brook in Spence’s first world title fight was well worth watching. The unbeaten Spence’s pressure later in what had been a very competitive fight made Brook take in knee in back-to-back rounds and eventually made the former IBF welterweight champion quit in the 11th round Saturday night in Sheffield, England. Unfortunately, a Saturday afternoon on a holiday weekend wasn’t an ideal television platform for Spence’s impressive performance.
Last Saturday night, Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) suffered his second consecutive defeat - and both losses saw the boxer deal with a fractured orbital bone. Last September, Brook moved up by two weight divisions to challenge IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. After a competitive start, Brook suffered a fractured right orbital bone. Brook's corner stopped the fight in the fifth round.
Kell Brook going out on his knee against Errol Spence jnr in Sheffield at the weekend has divided opinion and created plenty of debate in boxing circles. I, for one, would much rather be discussing whether he quit or not than be entering into a period of soul searching in the wake of a potential life-changing injury. Of course, viewers who are not in the habit of scoring fights as they go along were possibly lulled into thinking Brook was on the verge of retaining his IBF title with the Sky Sports cheerleading in full swing and, increasingly, Tony Bellew is becoming the only sane voice!
Former welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) has been taking a lot of heat from the critics, and some fighters, for the outcome of last Saturday's fight with Errol Spence. Brook was making a mandatory defense of his IBF welterweight title against Spence before a crowd of 27,000 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield. The fight was competitive for seven rounds, before Spence started taking over around the eight. Brook went down in the tenth, and then took a voluntary knee for the full count in the eleventh round.
Former world champion Junior Witter is hoping that his good friend and Ingle gym stablemate, Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs), considering the idea of walking away from the sport. Last Saturday night at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, Brook was stopped in eleven rounds by Errol Spence, who in victory captured the IBF welterweight title.