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Kell Brook 40-3 (28) has promised to give Amir Khan 34-6 (21) “another whooping” if he insists on invoking the rematch clause in his contract.
The 35-year-old from Sheffield dusted Bolton’s Khan, also 35, in six one-sided rounds in their 149-pound catchweight last month.
“If he wants another whooping he can have another whooping,” Brook told Sky Sports News at the British Boxing Board of Control 2021 awards ceremony on Sunday.
“It was so one-sided, I don’t know what he can say and come back to the table with.
“If he wants that rematch, I’ll dust them gloves off and do it again.”
Promoter Ben Shalom isn’t keen on the rematch with other names like Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr angling for a shot at Brook. But those fights may have to wait if Khan enacts his rematch clause.
“I think the word on the street is true – Amir Khan, he doesn’t want to call it a day,” Shalom said to Sky Sports News.
“He has spent a lot of time thinking about the fight the past couple of weeks and he feels like he had 10 weeks to prepare and Kell Brook had six months. So he feels hard done by. I don’t know whether that fight is even possible, but he does have that rematch clause.
“For me, for Kell Brook it’s time to move on, whether it’s to retire or to fight one of the other names mentioned. I can’t see it, but Amir is convinced, we will hear what his reasons are in the next few days and we’ll have to take it from there.
“Whatever he (Khan) does, he’s had a great career, just for me it probably was the time to hang up the gloves, but he feels very differently.”
Welterweight Benn 20-0 (13) and middleweight Eubank Jr 32-2 (23) both present attractive options for Brook and would be big drawcards in the United Kingdom.
“I’m interested in the Eubank fight and the Conor Benn fight. I’m very interested in those fights,” Brook said.
“They’re big fights, they’re fights I could definitely get up for and they’re definitely crowd-pleasing fights.
“I can’t just get up for any fight. I’ve been in the game a long time and having the fights I’ve had, it needs to be something I can get up for, to get the bit between my teeth and really step on the gas in training.”
Shalom agreed.
“Kell Brook is now the money fight that everyone wants in the welterweight division or even above,” Shalom said.
“He had a tremendous performance against Amir Khan, rolled back the years, and I think the other fighters have seen that and now thought, ‘I fancy it, I want to get in there.’
“Chris Eubank Jr is probably the obvious one – two massive names, and Chris hopefully will be willing to come down and fight him at 154 or 155 – I think that’s the only way that one’s possible.
“And then there’s Conor Benn, Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman – they’re all reaching out wanting to fight Kell, but he might retire as well. And I think for him to go out on a high after beating Amir Khan in such tremendous fashion, that’s a very, very attractive option for Kell as well.”
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