Brook-N’dou on Saturday: Kell hoping a win leads to a title shot
June 23rd, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: 25-year-old #2 ranked WBO welterweight contender Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s) is hoping that a victory over 39-year-old Lovemore N’dou (48-12-2, 31 KO’s) on Saturday night will lead to Brook getting a title shot against one of the welterweight champions. Brook and N’dou will be fighting for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) Inter-Continental welterweight title at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
Speaking with Sportsvibe.com, Brook said “Maybe a world title fight is next for me, but who knows?” It looks like Brook is taking the old backdoor route to a title fight.
Well, let’s see. Brook won’t be fighting WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, so that ones off his list. He won’t be fighting WBC welterweight champ Victor Ortiz either. The other options are the paper champions IBF belt holder Jan Zaveck and WBA champion Vyacheslav Senchenko. I kind of doubt that Brook will get a fight with either of them, but if he does what point is there if Brook will just be another paper champion? I don’t see Brook beating Zaveck, and I doubt his promoter would allow him to fight that guy.
Senchenko would also be a very tough fight for Brook because Senchenko has a great jab and is capable of out-boxing Brook. No, I don’t see title fight happening next for Brook. Hopefully he starts facing some live bodies after this and not just old guys or local lads. Being ranked at number #2 should mean that Brook is willing to take on the best. I’d settle for some of the lower ranked guys in the top 15 like Shawn Porter and Luis Carlos Abregu, who, sadly, would be a monumental step up in competition for Brook.
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G.E.E aka Glenn- I see what you’re saying but I don’t think Brook is anywhere near as big headed and arrogant as other fighters like Degale, Khan and Haye. I know he has said some stuff in particular about fighting guys like Mayweather, Pacquaio and Khan but it’s only because he wants to get big fights and no one is giving him them!
Why Gilfoid have you had several articles slagging Brook for fighting N’dou who has a record of (48-12-2,31 KO’s) and has been in with countless top fighters yet he hasn’t wrote any articles whatsoever about one of his favourite fighters who is fighting this week Mike Jones who is taking on a guy called Raul Munoz who has a record of (21-13-1,16 KO’s)?????????????????? Jones is 3 years older and is ranked a place above Brook yet he is fighting a nobody! Why???
I’m from Newcastle England ….I despise arrogance like kell Brook, De Gle…these are imported cultures of Britain!
Would Henry Cooper have had this arrogance like Naseem Hamed SCHOOLED by Barrera….
taking the back door root you mean like every american fighter does. except he will win unlike any americans at the momment as there are a shortage of good american fighters. unlike the uk where there is a wealth of talent and anyway you are always going on about how great chavez and alvarez are well look who they have fought scott now if thats not the back door root then i dont know what is scott.
That just about says it all. If you think this is a good article clearly you must share a brain cell with gilfoid.
good article scott. keep up with the good work
lot of guys commentin on here want to suck brooks lollypop. come on guys. hes not that good. He ant even got a knockout punch. british joke
Put him in with Mike Jones! They can fight it out to be the #1 contender to the Manny Pacquiao throne!
well it wasnt that long ago that alvarez beat ndou and guess what he’s now a world champion.
Scott just leave British fighters alone
Im a Brit I think Scott is an idiot and that he is basing his predictions on Brook being british and nothing else
Hopwever I can stand brook I dont think he will sop lovemore.
He may even lose with a bit of luck
Missing the point. If Brook stops Ndou he’ll have done something Alvarez, Cotto, Malignaggi, Hatton, Cintron etc couldn’t do, that is knock him out. If Brook does that, despite Ndou’s age he’s still making a statement to the rest of the division – just like Manny would have if he’d have stopped Mosely. Even if he’s then successful in beating one of the other paper champions, it still gives him collateral. Manny may not fight him now, but he would if Brook won another belt and then defended it against a highly ranked contender like Berto. It worked for Haye.
I remember when a certain Yank came over to fight Nigel Benn his name was Gerald McClellan. He was best the US had to offer and was favourite. Unfortunatley for him it was his last fight….
Don’t get to carried away! He hasn’t beaten N’dou yet! One step at a time. He might get sat on his arse if he gets over confident!
Remember when Jeff Lacey was the next big thing on the block and he failed miserably? lmao. Just one example why these yanks like bashing UK fighters.
Come on now…300+ million population there must be something in the water mr gilford.
Yeah i have to say the problem isnt with who Brook is willing to fight, its whos willing to fight him. Your right Manny wont, Victor wont either hes got his own problems at the minute ( Mayweather – Good Luck ). So yeah he will be looking at the paper champions. What gets me is when you write, you act like these champions are worthless, but they obvious arent, it gets you recognition – this is something Kel needs badly, hes still pretty unheard of outside uk.
Kel’s going to walk over N’dou just like everyone thinks he will then i hope he gets a shot at Senchenko, If not, then a top 10 is kinda a must, just gotta find one that will step in with him.
Brook as to face someone good soon,i for one would like to see whats he like in a really fight.
kell would struggle with elite fighters. senchenko and zaveck would give kell brooks nightmares.
The reason brook hasnt faced top opposition is purely down to bad promoting. The reason gilfoid is on about brook is because he knows he has talent. this is actually a compliment.
everyone hates Brooke, hes a prat, and fighting nobodys, even kahn has faced good opponents at his age, step up
If he was a yank you would be brown nosing him something rotten the same way you do with Dirrell! FACT.