Amir Khan v Kell Brook - Finally

Amir Khan vs Kell Brook weigh-ins

Brook: “Half-a-pound under. Like I’ve been telling you, I’ve been nice for weeks.

“The weight weren’t an issue, because this is a fight I can get up for easily.

“I feel amazing [mentally]. It’s now about fuelling up and coming in cool, calm and collected.

“It’ll be me [who keeps composed]. Got to stick to the gameplan and just perform, do my business.

“Electric. It’s gonna be exciting, plenty of drama. I’m there to thrill the fans.”

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Kell Brook avoids hefty fine by making weight for Amir Khan grudge match as tempers flare once again

Kell Brook will not face a hefty fine ahead of his fight with Amir Khan after making weight for this weekend’s long-awaited grudge match.

Saturday night’s all-British showdown at the AO Arena in Manchester between former IBF welterweight champion Brook and ex-unified light-welterweight champion Khan, both now 35, is being fought at a catchweight of 149lbs, which is two pounds over the traditional welterweight limit.

And penalties for going over that mark looked severe, with the two rivals said to have agreed to a staggering £100,000 fine for every extra pound.

Brook has not found it easy to make the welterweight limit in his career and admitted this week that he might weigh in heavy, with questions over whether he could potentially do so deliberately in order to gain an obvious size advantage on fight night.

However, the Sheffield favourite looked in superb physical condition as he stepped on the scales at Friday’s weigh-in, clocking in at 10st 8lbs 5oz.

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That was just heavier than Khan, who weighed in a pound lighter at 10st 8lbs 5oz.

Khan and Brook then engaged in one final heated face-off before Saturday’s bout, exchanging more angry trash talk before having to be separated by security.

“I feel amazing,” Brook told Sky Sports after the weigh-in. “I’ve done all the hard work. It’s about the weight, fuelling up and just coming in cool, calm and collected. I’ve got a job to do.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxi...cid=entnewsntp

Brown beating Schofield in an entertaining undercard fight so far.

Vidal Riley, KSI trainer, is taking on Shihepo now and looking good knocking down his opponent.

Didn't realize this was on Espn+ over here, still like to see Brook take it and both call it a needed day.

Brutal first round d knock out by Rea!

Adam Azim very fast and talented against an overmatched Ellison.

Hassan Azim not as talented as his brother, loading up too much against a game journeyman who is from Dudley.

Clarke makes a successful debut with a first round stoppage.

Terrible undercard so far.

Natasha scores a knock down in the 1st round!

Jones wins it in the 2nd round. Well done!

Sky were trying to make an issue out of Kell Brook gloves but he is coming in now. Buffer doing his introductions and Kell getting booed.

I’ve been amazed through all this that Brook has generally been seen as the baddie.

Khan wobbling in the 1st round by Brook. This will not last.

Ha!

Brook wobbled him then.

Khan may have won the 2nd just on panic frantic mode. Brook taking too much time.

Khan may have won the 2nd just on panic frantic mode. Brook taking too much time.

Khan was winning the 3rd round but got rocked by Brook and his legs were like jelly.

Close 4th round but Khan is still not steady on his legs

3-1 Brook

I don't have any sound but this is great fun. Brook has made it personal from round 3 and Khan is in survival mode already (:

Khan is wobbling and Brook is battering him in the 5th. They may stop it soon.

4-1 Brook

Khan stopped in the 6th round. One side beating no need for the rematch.

Brook was hurting him every time he got through.

Made up for Brook, he deserves it. This is bigger than a world title for him.

Brook should retire too but I bet he faces Eubank in another fabricated sky ppv.

amir con lost every round until the ref saved him. cash grab

My takeaway from this is that Brook has no power.

Amir Khan and Kell Brook ended their long feud when they met in the ring for what proved to be a barnstorming fight.

The rivals had previously circled each other for years without ever settling the score, but they came together in Manchester – live on talkSPORT – where Brook battered his opponent into submission.

Both men have achieved their dream of being world champions but, before they call it a day they wanted to face each other.

Some boxing fans have said it was a fight five years too late, but it still managed to capture the imagination of boxing fans in the UK and both Khan and Brook earned a pretty penny from taking the fight.

Khan reportedly took home £5million for the bout, with Brook, who won on the night, taking home £3m.

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Ahead of the fight, the Bolton fighter said he is getting the ‘lion’s share’ of the purse, saying Brook is only taking this fight for the money.

There’s no doubt that the former Olympian has had the more lucrative career. Khan’s net worth stands at around £29m today, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

He took home £9m from Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez fight and then $7m to fight Billy Dib in Saudi Arabia. Khan also made around £3.7m to fight Terence Crawford, who was in his corner on Saturday night.

Brook’s net worth is said to be £16m. The best paydays of his career came against Gennady Golovkin (£3m), Errol Spence Jr (£3.5m) and then Crawford (£2m), according to Total Sportal.

Khan, 35, had 39 fights before Saturday and had walked to the ring to face either a current or former world champion on 11 occasions and he beat seven of them.

Through 42 prior fights, Brook, also 35, has faced four world champions past or present and he won twice.

Still, with both men in the latter years of their careers, they were keen to take home a decent payday.

Brook, though, has a couple of options for another all-British fight in the forms of Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn.

Both men called him out after beating Khan.

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1...-worth-wealth/

What is the difference between horsehair and foam-padded boxing gloves? Khan vs Brook glove dispute explained

BOXING often throws up plenty of disagreement and conflict, especially between some of the sport's biggest stars on fight week.

And this is the case in the Amir Khan vs Kell Brook bout in Manchester.

One particularly contentious part of fight week is glove selection, where both fighters and their respective camps will inspect and choose the gloves they will where on fight night.

Often, this is a smooth process, but as seen with Tyson Fury's third fight with Deontay Wilder, it's not always plain-sailing.

Wilder had already thrown accusations about the legality of Fury's gloves for their second fight in 2020, and the Bronze Bomber wasn't happy when Fury selected the same style of glove for the trilogy.

Fury famously wears horsehair material gloves, while Wilder has worn foam padding in his throughout his career, and both are legal.

But who do fighters get so antsy over glove selection? SunSport have rounded up all you need to know about one of the key formalities of fight week, and the differences between the two types of glove.

It sounds self-explanatory - one gloves has horsehair in it, the other has foam.

But the use of horsehair in gloves, a tradition nearly as old as the sport, has been hotly-contested in recent years.

Horsehair padding provides the glove with less protection to both your hands, and your opponent's face, therefore it favours those in the ring who consider themselves to be a knockout artist, or someone with really heavy hands.

Horsehair gloves are durable, though they absorb sweat easier, thus wearing the padding down quicker than that of their foam relatives.

Dubbed a 'puncher's glove' horsehair gloves are often used by fighters with a come-forward Mexican style of fighting, or those seeking stoppages in their fights, much like Fury did against Wilder.

Fury wore Paffen branded gloves for both the rematch and the trilogy against Wilder, after he employed Kronk coach SugarHill Steward to train him to KO the American.

Paffen gloves use horsehair padding, unlike the majority of modern boxing gloves which use foam padding.

Following their second fight, in which Wilder was stopped in seven rounds, the Alabama native complained Fury's gloves had an insufficient amount of padding in them, and that Fury's punches left a dent in his face.

Wilder usually wears Everlast Powerlock gloves, which uses a PVC foam and latex material for padding.

Foam padded gloves have become more popular over the past two decades, as they keep your hands protected and they absorb shock better than horsehair gloves do.

Once Wilder found out that Fury would be using the same gloves for their trilogy, however, he opted to use Everlast MX instead, a horsehair-foam mix, in order to even the playing field.

Another fighter who was opposed to horsehair gloves was Floyd Mayweather, who often had it written into his fight contracts that his opponents weren't allowed to use gloves with that type of padding.

Conor McGregor was famously banned from using horsehair for their fight back in 2017.

And Marcos Maidana had to change his gloves from horsehair to foam in 2014 on fight week after Mayweather came away from glove inspection less than impressed with the Argentine's choice of glove.

Maidana ended up wearing Grant branded gloves, which Mayweather wore for most of his storied career.

Grant gloves are known as the best gloves on the market for those who want their hands to be ultra-protected, and they were perfect for Mayweather, who often suffered with hand injuries.

Most known boxing glove brands
Everlast - worn by Deontay Wilder, Terence Crawford, Errol Spence
Grant - worn by Floyd Mayweather, Gervonta Davis
Cleto Reyes - worn by Manny Pacquiao
Winning - worn by Naoya Inoue, Josh Warrington
Rival - worn by Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk, Vasyl Lomachenko
Paffen - worn by Tyson Fury
Adidas - worn by Daniel Dubois, Anthony Yarde
Fly - worn by Dillian Whyte, Lawrence Okolie
No Boxing No Life - worn by Canelo Alvarez

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/16680...ng-brook-khan/

Looked to me like Brook won every minute of every round. That straight left in the first round totally knocked Khan out of his stride, and Brook timed Khan so quickly and so well that Amir was nearly totally ineffective.

Brook just walked through Khan and gave him a battering. Khan's chin has always been his downfall, but there has never been anything wrong with his heart. I cant help feeling that this would have been the result whenever they fought.

After being pretty much humiliated, Khan showed lots of class after the fight

I had a blurry stream. All I saw was chocolate brownies flying everywhere.

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Khan is getting a lot of sh*t but he won an Olympic silver at 17 and ppl gotta remember in the 2004 Athens olympics that was a one man GB Boxing team. (Khan was the only British boxer that qualfied compared to 11 now at the 2020 Olympics) after he won the silver medal, the government pumped money in which led to the AJ's. DeGale. Campbell, Joyce's etc and women's boxing.

• Commonwealth champ at 20.
• World Champ at 22.
• Unified World Champ at 24.
• Fought 16 World Titlists - won 11 lost 5.
• FOTY vs Maidana.
• Headlined Vegas and New York.
• An absolute trailblazer who fought in three seperate decades.
• Been a professional for over half of his entire life.

He achieved more than what 99% of fighters ever do. A throwback fighter who fought everyone and anyone, came up short a few times but also had his moments.

You saw the undercard and the guys like the Yafai brothers boxing out of Birmingham and you have to give credit to Khan's affect on Asian boxers in the UK. A hero for British Pakistanis for a long time... his legacy is set even when he hangs it up.

BUT

He did everything to put Brook at a disadvantage for this fight. Played with his head as he questioned his sexuality. Suggested Brook was racist. Put a rehydration clause in the contract. Made Brook lace up his gloves in the ring. Someone even disrupted Brook's sleep by banging on his hotel door and waking him up between 3-4am this morning......but Brook still won.

I have the utmost respect for Kell Brook for how he has handled himself throughout this and he was a worthy winner. Stoppage was a bit premature but there was only gonna be one winner

By the way anyone see this fight in the crowd ?

Didn't see the fight, but I'm glad it was a TKO win by Brook. Khan talks (and whines) way too damn much... and is impossible to root for.

He had this coming a long time ago.

I thought he stoppage was premature but just watched it again - Khan was getting hurt a lot up to that and I think the ref did the right thing. No real complaints from Khan either.

Had no idea he was getting 2 million more for the fight would have thought this one should have been 50:50

One last pay day for Brook out there if he wants it - should take it

Brook best chance for a successful payday is against Conor Benn. Eubank would be to much for him.

I hate how Sky are trying to manufacturing these rivalries to sell PPV.

Eubank ducked Triple G at the last minute and Brook took the opportunity given to him. Chris is trying to say Brook stole that position from him which is not true.

I wouldn't have forked out for this but we ended up getting it free due to some VIP bollocks from Sky. Anyway. Pretty much the perfect ending wasn't it? No idea how well it did in terms of numbers but Sky sold it really well. It was one of those who gives a shit fights that over the course of the last week built momentum into something not to be missed. That's where DAZN falls down. There's no outlet for that sales juggernaut pumped into everyone's home 24/7 which tips the definitely not going to buy this shit over the edge to make a purchase with heart rather than head.

I don't care if he's 25 or 35, Kel Brooks secondary jab is a thing of beauty and lands with the thud of most backhands. That got Khan going each and every time. One of my favourite punches in boxing. Save for a few rat-a-tat-tat's early doors which he would have expected, Brook new he could walk through him and did just that. He beat him up didn't he. Khan looked like he'd been run over afterwards.

Khan will almost certainly call it a day now and I hope Brook does the same. I suspect he won't. OK nothing but pride at stake and neither going out on top. But Brook climbed his Everest if you like, he got his vindication. Be happy with that. Please don't entertain a fight with the tit Eubank Jnr. The cunts 33 years old, apparently chasing fights with GGG and Canelo and still trying to figure out if he's the best middleweight in Britain. I'd have some respect for the charade if it was to win a Lonsdale belt outright but it's not. It's (from Eubanks side) being dressed up as some sort of grudge match over the GGG fight. The pathetic truth is Brook had the balls to fight him, Eubank didn't.

I've always liked Brook... and can't help the "what-might-have-beens" if he hadn't jumped two weight divisions to fight GGG. That was a career-ruining decision, IMO, and no one can really say with any certainty just how far Brook could've gone if he hadn't done that. Remember, he suffered a severe injury to his eye socket in that fight. He had no business being in the ring with Golovkin, just like big-mouth Khan never had any business doing his own 2-division jumping to face Ginger. Except in Khan's case, his somewhat fragile chin had already been exposed in previous fights. I'm glad those two finally met (Brook-Khan), even if it was years after their expiration dates. I'm also glad Brook's victory over Khan was by TKO. No controversy... nothing left to be said.

Boxing promoter Ben Shalom has revealed why Kell Brook changed his gloves prior to defeaitng Amir Khan last weekend.

Brook, 35, was seen swapping his mitts after walking from his Manchester dressing room shortly before their highly-anticipated fight started.

The Sheffield-born star won by sixth-round TKO on Saturday night at the AO Arena in Manchester.

It was revealed that a contractual dispute was behind Brook’s change of gloves, which meant himself nor Khan were allowed to wear gloves containing horse hair, which are typically used by boxers with greater punching power.

“I wasn’t lying when I said throughout the promotion about the animosity between these two fighters”, Shalom said.

“There were suggestions it was pantomime, but it showed on the night it wasn’t. There was a contract in place that Amir Khan requested there was no horse hair in the gloves.

“Horse hair, unbeknown to me, my team and even some members of the board, is in 90 per cent of gloves.

“It was in 100 per cent of gloves 20 or 30 years ago. It got to the night. They passed the gloves on Friday night and everything went.

“We opened a pair of gloves very similar to what Kell had and horse hair was found in them and it absolutely kicked off. Amir nearly left the venue. Dominic Ingle told me he knew what he was doing all along, and refused to change the gloves.

“Eventually, at the 11th hour, Kell agreed to change his gloves in the ring, which you saw. I missed the whole of the Natasha Jonas fight as I was running from changing room to changing room.

“We had everyone in the back, the British Boxing Board of Control, Adam Smith had to leave his commentary desk. It was just drama. It was 50/50 as to whether that fight would happen.

“They were both convinced they weren’t going to go out. Amir was not going to go out unless Kell changed his gloves.

“In the end, credit to Kell as he changed his gloves and it didn’t really make a difference.”

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KELL BROOK and Amir Khan's long-awaited grudge match has proven a box office success - with numbers close to that of Anthony Joshua's.

Some scoffed at the idea of spending £20 to watch the 35-year-old pair of ex-world champion finally put reputations on the line.

Meanwhile others were willing to pay whatever the price just to see the two fierce rivals at last settle their bitter score, which spanned almost two decades.

With Eddie Hearn packing up and taking his stable to rival streaming service DAZN, Sky Sports and their new partners Boxxer have been left searching for fresh stars.

But it turns out, fan-favourites from the past proved value for money as Khan and Brook rivalled just about anything else on Sky's platform.

Promoter Ben Shalom told SunSport: “The buys speak for themselves, it was something that gripped the nation.

“Outside the top AJ numbers, it blows pretty much everything else out of the water.

“It’s the biggest fight outside of the heavyweight division, a domestic fight, that Sky have ever had.

“It was incredible, obviously a lot of people talked the fight down but it was clearly a monumental fight for British boxing.

"And the numbers, as a I say, were akin to AJ figures. Which you don’t see really at all other than the world heavyweight title fights.”

Joshua, 32, has sold over 1million PPVs on Sky Box Office before, while Khan and Brook's total has not yet been revealed.

But what was there for all to see was Brook's six-round demolition of Khan, securing bragging rights for life in brutal fashion.

The performance and result leaves Khan staring retirement in the face, which would end a celebrated and historic career.

But for Brook, he is primed for at least one more mega-money payday, if he is willing to trade what would otherwise be the perfect farewell fight.

Shalom said: "Kell is in the number one position right now. He’s got a lot of options and everyone will want to fight him.

“If he retires today, he’s gone out on a high, but there are options and he will consider them. We’ll consider what’s best for him now.

“I think he’s had an amazing experience with us and an amazing promotion with us and there’s now options for him.

“I’m really pleased for him, perhaps his career up until this point wasn’t managed in the best way and maybe took some fights that he shouldn’t have, at the wrong time and wrong weight.

“We think we did everything to give him this fight and the promotion he deserved and he worked his a*** off.

“He spent six months in the gym and he’s come out victorious and he’d probably tell you this was as big for him as it was beating Shawn Porter for his world title.”

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Strange not to include the actual numbers in such a statement

Probably tax reasons. Hope Khan does not initiate the rematch clause based on the success of the event.

I had Brook to win but not to humiliate Khan like he did. Khan mayswell retire... he had a pretty decent career.