Brook looking to set a good example against Hatton; disgusted by Chisora-Haye brawl
February 22nd, 2012
By Sean McDaniel: #2 WBO ranked welterweight contender Kell Brook (26-0, 18 KO’s) was repulsed by last weekend’s brawl between Dereck Chisora and David Haye at the Vitali Klitschko – Chisora post fight press conference. Brook, 26, saw the the whole affair as being bad for boxing and he wants to make sure that he and his March 17th opponent Matthew Hatton (42-5-2, 16 KO’s) set a good example in their fight at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
It’s doubtful we’ll see any mischief going on after or before the March 17th Hatton-Brook fight. If anything, they’ll both be complimentary of each other to the extreme. Of course, neither of them are world champion either, so there won’t be any possibility of an opponent crashing a post fight press conference to try and make a case for himself that he deserves a fight like Haye did with Vitali. Brook and Hatton aren’t real big on selling fights the way that Haye is, and he was just doing what he normally does in trying to get fights.
Brook has a lot more going for him than the 30-year-old #9 WBA ranked Hatton in this fight, and it’s going to be asking a lot of Hatton to be able to stay in for the full 12 round getting knocked out or knocked about. He seems to be able to soak up punishment pretty well as we saw in his lopsided 12 round decision loss to Saul Alvarez last year, but he doesn’t have the power or the speed to give Brook any problems. If anything, Hatton will be someone that will give Brook some rounds in losing by a lopsided decision. We also could see a knockout in this fight if Brook really presses the issue. I’m not sure that he will, though, out of respect for Hatton. He might just carry him for 12 rounds, content to win every round of the fight and win by a dominating performance.
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Who is Brook?!!! And why they are giving him so much attention?!!
no one said fxx k all when tyson and lewis kicked of
Never diss the queen a true great and an insperation for millions.
Great shout – he does sound like keith lemon.
@ Sheffield How does it make any difference that it wasn’t at a press conference? That’s like saying Harold Shipman was OK because when he was knocking off grannies he wasn’t in the doctors surgery. Besides in the full interview he actually talks about being a role model.
Then again, he does sound like Keith Lemon so some things can be forgiven!
think the point kell was making was that they did it publicly with the world watching thats y it gave a bad name to sport. what kell does in his own time is his buisness ..
Yes Kel the model pro…smashing a young bar manager in the mouth…do these idiots ever listen to themselves?
every boxers got a past and kell`s no different, i dont think boxers should comment on things like this just to help promote their own fight, it wasn`t nice to see but sometimes in a sport where you punch the other mans face in you gotta expect things like this to happen .not sure it would of happend in any other country tho.
Quite rich coming from a guy who punch a bar manager who was trying to stop him going into the ladies toilets
Looking forward to this fight,nice warm up for Macklin and Martinez later on.