Liam Smith: record, next fight and profile →
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.
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.
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.
A battle of former world champions, between Kell Brook and Liam Smith, is very possible for the near future, according to their mutual promoter Eddie Hearn. This coming Saturday night, Brook will snap a 14-month layoff when he faces once-beaten Mark DeLuca in a junior middleweight contest. Brook, who held the IBF's welterweight crown and lost it to Errol Spence in 2017, is now looking for another world title at 154-pounds.
Kell Brook has no problem with a potential battle with fellow former world champion Liam Smith. Brook has been inactive since December 2018, when he struggled at times at win a tough decision over Michael Zerafa. Brook is back on Saturday night, when he faces once-beaten Mark DeLuca in a junior middleweight scrap from Sheffield’s FlyDSA Arena.
Liam Smith is very confident in his ability to defeat fellow former world champion Kell Brook, who returns this weekend after being away from the ring sin December 2018, when he had a tougher than expected decision win over Michael Zerafa.
Former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (38-2, 26 KOs) is scheduled to snap his layoff on February 8th when he faces Mark DeLuca in Sheffield. For Brook, it's his first bout since December 2018, when he won a much tougher than expected twelve round decision over Michael Zerafa.