Kell Brook: record, next fight and profile →
Kell Brook will have to hold off from making any concrete fight plans, at least until Amir Khan gives him the green light. Ben Shalom, the head of the British promotional outfit Boxxer, which promoted the Amir Khan-Kell Brook welterweight grudge match on Feb. 19 at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England
Chris Eubank Jr. believes there is more momentum than ever for a clash between him and British compatriot Kell Brook. The middleweight contender called out Sheffield’s Brook to a fight soon after Brook notched a career-defining sixth-round stoppage over bitter rival Amir Khan in Manchester last Saturday.
Eddie Hearn believes another tantalizing British crossroads match-up could be on the horizon, provided one Kell Brook decides to take part in it. Hearn, the head of Matchroom Boxing, has made it plainly obvious that he would love to see nothing more than for his former client Brook, a former world champion, take on his current charge Conor Benn, the up-and-coming welterweight.
Amir Khan’s trainer Brian McIntyre was close to throwing in the towel during Khan’s highly anticipated welterweight showdown with Kell Brook.
Eddie Hearn, who promotes welterweight contender Conor Benn, would love to match his boxer against former world champion Kell Brook. Last Saturday night at the Manchester Arena, Brook got the most satisfying victory of his entire career - when he stopped longtime rival Amir Khan in six rounds of action.
Amir Khan knew pretty early in his one-sided fight with Kell Brook on Saturday night that boxing probably isn’t for him anymore. Khan trained hard with Terence Crawford’s team in the United States for their long-awaited domestic grudge match. The British star wanted nothing more than to knock Brook into the front row at AO Arena in Manchester, England.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It was a sad sight. Well, sad for me at least. Looking at a press conference dais and seeing Amir Khan, hunched in a dark hoodie, the left side of his face swollen and abraded, his lips puffy and discolored, was difficult. Not because I thought, at age 35 and more than two years on from his last ring appearance, that his days as a world-class boxer were anything but behind him.
Kell Brook never got a big unification showdown at welterweight. His highest profile bouts after his title win against Shawn Porter all ended in stoppage losses, twice with busted eye sockets. Saturday though, he finally got something he always wanted.
Kell Brook was keen to praise Amir Khan’s toughness after he won their grudge match. But the former IBF welterweight champion revealed that he had imagined a different finish the many times he had gone over the fight in his head over the years.