Kell Brook has seemingly agreed to fight Errol Spence... please for the love of god be in Vegas and not Sheffield. After Golovkin, Brook needs some exposure on a pretty average career.
Spence is heavy handed and a great up and coming talent. Hands like the Pacman. Brook has a solid chin though as proven against one of the best in the world. Brook would be the strongest that Spence has fought too so I'd lean slightly for Brook in this fight but to be honest it's an unknown entity. Brook has spent far too long messing around that I struggle to measure his actual ability. I might have been premature in saying there's very few people at 147 that could put Brook on the deck and even fewer that will be able to stand 12 rounds. I think that'll become a reality if he navigates Spence though.
As for where Khan goes, I simply don't know. I rarely find myself agreeing with Brook but he nailed it the other night at the Eubank fight. It's becoming impossible to make a fight with Amir because he's Amir Kardashian.. He spends so much time fannying around outside the ring all over the world getting his picture taken that Boxing is almost a distant last. Brook's completely right too.
The pundit nailed it too, Amir doesn't want to fight Brook in England. He wants the fight in the US, MGM style. A 70/30 winners split means nothing to Khan with the money he can make in the US. As he put, Amir is a prizefighter, he's a typical US Welterweight now, people think he's afraid to lose but fighting Canelo burned that quickly. He'll do anything for money.
Joshua - Still excited but still annoyed he's with Eddie Hearn, I want to see him move to a better camp and get himself really established because I still feel someone like Haye or Wilder is gonna have his number and before you know it, he's sharing a rope with David Price.
You have GGG coming up, Haye vs Bellew which in 'wrestling terms' is a squash match.
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Yep, it's all I could do too. Astonished that this lad managed to come in the ring at 19st and rant about reviving his career against a talent booster like Christian, only to gas in the fourth round and start bending over the ropes for breaks, it was incredible to see. I never grasped at it when I first saw him do it, I thought he was pulling shenanigans to force a ref step in and sending them back to the center, a tactic to get yourself off the ropes. The second time I realized he was deliberately putting himself on the ropes to take a breather, something you see a lot in boxing in different classes... in round 10 and 11, not round 4. I've never seen someone lean over the ropes for a good 5 second breather before though, he struggled to get off them and I was sure it was over there and then. It was so close to that amazing Kimbo Slice vs Dada 5000 MMA Attempt, in which both hilariously rubbish overweight fighters gassed in round one and forced the ref to call a TKO exhaustion decision.