Via Jake Tiernan: Kell Brook has begun training camp for an as-yet-unidentified opponent. Brook’s dietitian, Greg Mariot, posted on social media, Kell said: “Big, big news coming.“
While that could mean Brook is up against someone else, it’s likely he will be a comeback opponent for welterweight contender Conor Benn, who is planning to return to the ring later. one year of inactivity.
Former 147 lb IBF champion Brook (40-3, 28 KOs) is eager to rival Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) as long as Conor’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, shows him “” Benjamins” and paid him “super big”. “The war money for the war.
Hearn said last weekend that Brook would only be better for a national battle than a world one. As such, Hearn feels that the recently disqualified Chris Eubank Jr is a better choice, which fans find odd given that Benn-Eubank will not be able to sell outside the UK. American fans won’t be ordering Benn versus Eubank Jr or Brook on PPV.
Brook’s career has gone downhill since he was batoned by Gennadiy Golovkin in rounds in September 2016. After that defeat, Brook was stopped by Errol Spence in the next match and then by Terence Crawford. in 2020.
Some boxing fans believe Golovkin ruined Brook, but more than likely he was never so good in the first place. The huge amount of money Brook was given to him in the battle against Golovkin and Spence seems to have been dashed any ambition he had ever had. After that, Brook becomes more laid-back, rarely fights and appears to be a retired boxer.
“Conor brought up a number of things, back and forth, me and him. Listen, I’m ready for this. If his boss, Eddie [Hearn]want to contact me and pay me huge amount [money]I am about to retire. I’m going to retire and show your boy how to do it,” Kell Brook told King of Boxing Media last week about him eager to fight Conor Benn for the big bucks.
“He knows what happened in that duel. He was trying to push and push me,” Brook said of his practice session with Benn. “You know what happened in that scrim.
“We had to do 10 rounds, and he came out after eight rounds, saying his shoulder hurt because I was carrying the heat. I don’t want to be in that fire. He wants to go out. He knows what happened. Simms knows what happened, his coach.
“My dad knows what happened. He was there. Listen, forget about sparring. Eddie [Hearn]Come see me and we’ll have a discussion. If that makes sense to me and I’ll get that mojo back because at the moment, I’m just a retired health caretaker.
“I will take those glove return we’ll dance as long as those Benjamins come. You know where I am in Sheffield. Eddie’s got my number. If we sit down and I’m excited. You have to excite me, Eddie, because now I’m wearing slippers. I’ll take off my sandals, put on my running shoes, and I’ll show your boy what time it is,” Brook said.
