After sitting out all of former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (38-2, 26 KOs) will be aiming to shake off the ring rust and fire his name back into the mix for a word title shot in 2020 when he meets the USA’s Mark DeLuca (24-1, 13 KOs) for the vacant WBO inter-continental super welterweight title on Saturday in Sheffield, England.
“It’s my time to prove why I am ‘The Special One’” proclaimed Brook at a public workout in She. “Why I belong where I belong. We’ll see on Saturday night what I’ve got. This is my chance to show everyone that I’m back, and I’m 100 percent mentally, physically, spiritually. This version of me has never been in the ring. I’m excited to see what I do.”
DeLuca stated, “He’s trying to get back to where he once was. That’s a hunger that I think is still in him. He has to get by me in order to do that. I’m not listening to the naysayers, I think I’m getting a really dangerous and strong Kell Brook.”
Hope he does well. All he wants is to fight the big names. If he comes back and gets a title, hoping he gets a few lucrative fights. Forget Khan. Brook would wipe the floor with that glass jaw.
Well….. a couple of warm up fights would not hurt to get him back at a championship level. Amir Khan would truly be a warm up fight for Brook.
Ok waiting
Too little too late. His best years were 2015 and so
Advice: Take Khan and take money. If you don’t you and Khan will both regret.
After watching him on the pads yesterday, i was not impressed. He seemed slow, and his punches had no snap. For some reason he was boxing southpaw and didn`t look too good at it.
So many fighters feed their confidence in vowing to do this and that, but the facts are simple; reality and confidence are different dimensions. I am afraid Brook’s “sweet spots” as a fighter are behind him. After GGG took him into deep harmful waters, that seemed to have taken much out of Brook. I wish him the best, but skepticism over rules optimism in this case.
Really hope Brook still has it. But my gut tells me the furthest he can get is to compete, not winning against the elite level with likes of Crawford, rematches with Porter or Spence Jr and Pacquiao. Hope I am wrong here.
After fighting Deluca, he should look at either Broner or Jessie Vargas, those are 2 winnable fights.
Best of luck to him.