Via Barry Holbrook: Kell Brook officially retired at the age of 36 on Saturday, ending his 18-year professional career following a win over Amir Khan last February.
Brook is giving up three lucrative fighting options he has to contend with Chris Eubank Jr, Conor Benn and Josh Taylor. He could fight any of those three, but the possibility that Brook would lose would be very high.
Former IBF welterweight champion Brook (40-3, 28 KOs) insists he will NOT return to the sport, as he no longer has it in his body and he has made enough money to retire without having to work.
Indeed, according to Givemesport, Brook’s net worth is 22 million dollars, allowing him to live well without returning to the ring. After retiring with a huge fortune, Brook joined Tyson Fury.
Brook’s career is said to be more than two years after his fourth-round knockout defeat to WBO welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford in November 2020.
That match signaled the end of Brook’s career. Although Brook returned last February to take out 36-year-old gunman Amir Khan, that bout is seen as a classic by many boxing fans and featured two famous boxers. English language.
Khan hasn’t fought in three years and looks like the boxer shell he was in a decade earlier. Brook says his win settled his feud with Khan, but it was supposed to be an empty victory because of how old, inactive, and past Amir is.
“It’s over for me,” Kell Brook said to The Telegaph. “I will never box again. It’s a bit emotional to actually say this.
“It’s not there anymore,” Brook said. “I think everyone around me is satisfied.
“The truth is, boxing is a very, very harsh and dangerous sport, a sport where you can legally be killed in the ring, and Now I’m done with all my abilities still intact. ”
Brook held the 147-lb IBF title from 2014 to 2017, winning the strap with a win over Shawn Porter and then losing the strap to Errol Spence Jr.
Brook blundered with his disastrous decision to move up to middleweight to challenge IBF/IBO/WBC champion Gennadiy Golovkin for his titles in September 2016 in London.
“I was in the ring with Golovkin, Spence, Crawford, and in the end I fought Amir Khan. After that, I don’t think I need to continue. I am one of the lucky boxers to have earn enough to not have to work‘ said Brook.
While Brook fought Golovkin through the first four rounds, he ended up having to bow in the fifth round due to an eye injury.
Regrettably, Brook’s career was never the same after that game, when he again suffered an eye injury in his next game, a defeat to American phenom Spence in May 2017.
After that loss, Brook had three equal games over the next two years before losing to Crawford in 2020. Ambition was gone.
