Kell Brook “I would knock Khan clean out”

WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) recently added welterweight Junior Witter to the list of potential opponents he wants to fight on April 16th in the UK. Since Khan is now adding welterweights to his list, then he should have no problems facing #1 WBO welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s), who is more than willing to take on Khan for this date.

 

Brook doesn’t have a fight scheduled right now and is interested in fighting Khan for his next fight.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Brook said “Come on, Khan, stop messing about and give the fans and media a real fight that they want to see – against me. If he’s talking big about fighting Mayweather then why is he overlooking the best welterweight in Britain first? I’m fit and ready to go. My promoter Frank Warren wants the fight, the only person who doesn’t want it is Khan. I would knock him clean out. He might have hand speed, but I’m just as fast.”


I can say why Khan’s ignoring Brook. It’s because he’s too dangerous, too fast and too powerful. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense that Khan is talking 24/7 about wanting to fight Mayweather, yet he doesn’t want any part of the best welterweight in the UK. If Khan is already fighting in the UK, and is considering the old 36 years of age Witter, then Khan might as well skip that fight and take the much tougher fight against the unorthodox Brook. Khan would get much more respect from boxing fans and he would put on a much better fight for everyone. Khan already had his last fight with Marcos Maidana voted the fight of the year for 2010. Why not trying to top that by taking on a really good opponent instead of someone he can roll over without any problems.

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Kell Brook next fight set to take place in Sheffield

Kell Brook: set to fight in front of home supporters

Sheffield boxing star Kell Brook will return to his hometown on 25th June for his next professional bout, his promoter Eddie Hearn has announced.

Hearn, the son of veteran sports promoter and chairman of Leyton Orient FC Barry, revealed on his Twitter account that his new charge would return home to fight former IBF light-welterweight world champion Lovemore N’dou in the summer.

The fight with the 39- year-old Sydney-based South African will take place at the Hillsborough leisure centre.

Brook recently left Frank Warren Promotions to sign a fresh deal with Hearn’s Matchroom Sports. The 24-year-old had grown impatient with Warren’s inability to secure him either a world title shot or a big name fight to further his promising career.

Brook, who as smashed his way up to 23 straight wins as a professional boxer with 16 by way of knockout, met with Matchroom’s managing director Hearn in March and their positive discussions convinced the boxer to seek pastures new.

It has been an excellent few weeks for Hearn and Matchroom sports, with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch following Brook just a few days later in joining the Hearn's Matchroom Sports roster.

It had been highly speculated that Brook’s next fight would and should of been a world title shot or a major test, with a bout with unbeaten American Mike Jones widely touted, Miguel Cotto, Cornelius Bundrage and Paulie Malignaggi have also been mentioned.


Stiff challenge

N’dou (48, 12-2) certainly represents a stiffer challenge for Brook, but is perhaps is not the stellar name that many fight fans would have been hoping for the Sheffielder to take on. The veteran nonetheless has considerable pedigree at world level, despite his career being on the slide with his advancing years, and an impressive performance from Brook against a highly durable fighter who has never been stopped within the distance would earn him some kudos in the boxing world.
Vastly experienced, N’Dou has fought creditably against numerous high-level fighters, losing decisions to Miguel Cotto, Paulie Malignaggi (twice), Kermit Cintron and Bradford’s Junior Witter. He claimed a draw in November 2009 against Matthew Hatton. N’dou’s most recent outing was a points defeat to rising Mexican star Saul Alvarez at light-middleweight last December.


Out of action

Brook, the British and WBO Intercontinental welterweight champion, has also been out of action since December last year, when he knocked out Ghanaian Philip Kotey in just two rounds on the undercard of Warren’s Return of the Magnificent Seven in Liverpool.

The split with Warren appears to have been less than amicable, as the London based promoter hit out at Brook over the split in his weekly column.

“In the last week or so, I told Kell Brook I did not want to promote him anymore. I was fed up of constantly dealing with his father, rather than Kell himself,” he wrote.

“It felt like the situation that led to the breakdown of my relationship with Ricky Hatton.”

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British Boxings Stars Current World Rankings

The following is a list of British boxers who are rated in the most recently published rankings of the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO and their position in the rankings.


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Heavyweight


David Haye - WBA Champion

Derek Chisora - WBO No 10

Cruiserweight

Herbie Hide - IBF No 10 (8th rated)

Enzo Maccarinelli - IBF No 12 (10th rated)

The Number 1 and 2 spots in the IBF rankings are vacant

Ola Afolabi - WBA No 7 (6th rated), WBC No 10, WBO No 3

The No 1 WBA spot is vacant.



Light Heavyweight

Danny McIntosh - IBF No 13 (11th rated), WBA No 11, WBC No 7

Nathan Cleverly - WBO Interim Champion

Tony Bellew - WBO No 14



Super Middleweights

Brian Magee - IBF No 8 (7th rated), WBC No 12

James Degale - IBF No 11 (10th rated), WBC No 14, WBO No 3

Carl Froch - WBC Champion



Middleweight

Matthew Macklin - IBF No 8 (7th rated), WBA No 3, WBO No7

Darren Barker - IBF No 10 (9th rated), WBA No 6, WBC No 5, WBO No 14

Martin Murray - WBA No 6,

Light Middleweight

Ryan Rhodes - WBC No 3, WBO No 11

Welterweight



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Matthew Hatton - WBC No 10

Kell Brook - WBO No 3

Light Welterweight

Nigel Wright - IBF No 12

Ashley Theophane - IBF No 14

Amir Khan - WBA Champion

Paul McCloskey - WBA No 4



Lightweight

John Murray - IBF No 13 (11th rated), WBC No 2, WBO No 5

Gavin Rees - WBC No 13




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Super Featherweight

Stephen Foster - IBF No 10

Ricky Burns - WBO Champion



Featherweight

John Simpson - IBF No 4 (3rd rated),

Martin Lindsay - IBF No 15 (14th rated)

Super Bantamweight

Jason Booth - IBF No 10 (8th rated),

Scott Quigg - IBF No 11 (9th rated), WBA No 7, WBC No 12, WBO No 14

Rendall Munroe - WBC No 5,

Bantamweight

Jamie McDonnell - WBC No 9



Notes

The above relates to the top 15 for each of the four major sanctioning bodies which I have listed alphabetically i.e IBF then WBA etc.

They do not all take into account recent results.



Where there is a different rating in brackets it indicates the true ranking as some of the ranking spots above are marked “vacant”.

No other British fighters are rated.

Some fighters are not rated if they are in consideration for a title shot of one of the other bodies. For instance the WBC do not rank Derek Chisora, Audley Harrison (even though he has had his WBA title shot), Matthew Macklin, Kell Brook, Paul McCloskey and Kevin Mitchell.