Via Max Schramm: Amir Khan says Kell Brook is “half off” at this point in his career and he says he’ll take him out on February 19 when they meet for their feud them on the Sky Box Office at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
Khan (34-5, 21 KOs) admits that former IBF welterweight champion ‘Special One’ Brook (39-3, 27 KOs) would have been a tougher match for him if he had fought with him years ago when he was still. in his prime, but he says he doesn’t care.
Khan doesn’t care about Brook getting shot
It was essential for Khan to have Brook on his résumé, and he felt that future fans wouldn’t look at his profile and think he had Kell when he was. old.
All they would care about was that he beat Brook, period, and that would be good enough for them.
That said, boxing fans from future generations won’t spare the energy to scrutinize Brook’s age and recent ring activity when he fought Khan.
As you can see, Khan only cares about the bottom line that he gets Brook again on his résumé without thinking too much about him being a bit or completely overdone, like many fans right to see him. Of course, fans also think that Khan has passed a lot, so they are in the same boat in that respect.
Khan says Brook is jealous of his success
“More than anything, I think it’s pure envy of what I’ve done with my career and he thinks he should be in the right place for me,” Amir Khan said. trying to figure out why Brook seems to dislike him so intensely.
Khan continued: “What got me where I am is hard work, dedication and discipline. “We all know with Kell; he missed the wheel after a fight. He’s going to be missing for a few weeks and putting on a lot of weight.
“You see the difference in the two of us. It is quite funny. His coach Dominic Ingle said, ‘Amir doesn’t train. Kell has. ‘
“I don’t even have to ask that or give an answer for that because when you look at the two of us, there’s a big difference between who has trained and who hasn’t.
“He looked like an unwell, overweight, unhealthy person as if he had just come out of a boxer on a night out. As for me, I’ve been training for the past few months, and I’ve always kept myself positive.
“When you look at two fighters, you look at the skin tone, and you look at the eyes, you look at the body shape, you look at the frame, you see who’s the real fighter and who’s not the real fighter. ,” said Khan.
If you get the net worth of two boxers, you can understand why Brook might be bitter about Khan’s success.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Khan’s net worth is estimated at $40 million, while Brook’s is $3 million. That’s a huge difference for the two British boxers, who in their day were considered the UK’s best with 147th place.
Brook will need to retire
“So all Kell is saying right now is try to dig deep or maybe somehow get them back to a position where people are starting to believe they have a chance of winning the game. hey,” said Khan.
“Kell has no chance of winning this war. Honestly, I can say that by February 19th, I’m going to destroy him, and it’s going to be a big match,” Khan said.
“The way I destroy him, he will need to retire after that. This will be his last fight. When Brook fought Porter and won against Porter, it was a great victory. It was a very close fight, but he won to become world champion.
“At the time, I knew the name was coming up, ‘Amir should fight Kell right now, he’s the world champion.’ But I campaigned and followed a different route. I fought, and I also had world titles.
“I’ve been fighting big names in America. I fought and campaigned in America. I always knew that the Kell Brook fight would always be there for me.
“It was a season where I didn’t think that needed to happen at the time. Not because I’m scared. If you look at the resistance I and everyone else have, I’ve faced.
“I faced some tough and tough fighters. A boxer like Devon Alexander, whom Kell didn’t want to fight as many fights were said to have happened, Kell didn’t want to fight Devon Alexander.
“This is what Devon Alexander’s team also said in the press conference when I played him. There are other fighters I’ve fought with, like Canelo. The way I plan my career is also perfect with the way I do things.
“The main problem is now the war [Brook] here. Not because I’m fighting [because Brook is coming off a loss to Terence Crawford]. You always look at your opponent and think, ‘How good was he in his last match?’
Brook will likely retire if he loses the fight because he won’t have any options to pay him enough to get back in the ring.
Khan: Brook looked bad in his last battle
“Kell looks terrible. On a serious note, he looks lousy,” Khan said of Brook’s fight with Terence Crawford. “If that same Kell Brook were up against me, I wouldn’t have seen the fight go on for three or four rounds,” Khan said.
To be fair to Brook, he lost a lot of weight to drop to 147 to challenge WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford in November 2020.
Brook has no fighting experience at 147 in the late stages of his career, so it shouldn’t come as a shock that he’s been knocked down in four innings.
He fought well in the first three innings, but Brook was hurt by a sneaky right hook from Crawford after the Nebraska native turned south in the fourth inning.
“I mean, it’s a business, but at the same time, beating Kell Brook now or beating him five years ago, I don’t think it makes a difference,” Khan said. “When people read my resume, ‘Oh, you fought Kell Brook,’ they don’t look at when I fought Kell Brook or what year it was.
“So really, I don’t think that matters now. For me, it doesn’t really matter. For me, it’s better to fight him now than back then because he’s half broken.
“It’s a business. Still Kell Brook, right? He’s a man who still says that, and he still feels the same way when he fights me and still feels he can beat me. But maybe, I don’t think he has that in himself. He’s like the old Kell Brook.
“So I’ll be honest there. A few years ago, he would have given me a tougher fight for sure. But now, he doesn’t stand a chance,” Khan said of Brook.
At this point, it seems like the Khan-Brook fight is more about money than anything. It is a fight that will provide more retirement for the two boxers, as neither is expected to continue. Brook can continue to fight, but only if he is offered to fight Conor Benn.
If that fight does happen, it will likely be in 2023 as the Benn promoter will want to wait for Brook to be a bit older. He won’t bring Benn in with Brook if he kills Khan because it would be too risky.
