Hearn thinks he can get Broner to UK for Kell Brook fight

By Boxing News - 10/27/2013 - Comments

broner782By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn thinks he can lure WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner over to the UK to fight his guy Kell Brook (31-0, 21 KO’s) within the next few months.

Hearn believes that with the lure of money to be made on pay-per-view, Broner will readily agree to come over and fight in front of massive crowds of British fans cheering Brook on. Hearn also thinks he has a chance to get Floyd Mayweather Jr. and/or Amir Khan to agree to fight Brook.

Hearn to IFLTV “It’s no secret that we want Khan, and we want Mayweather. That fight can happen. Broner is another fight I want to try and make. We can bring those over. We can bring those fighters over here with the pay-per-view model. Some people say we can’t bring Adrien Broner over here, but it can be done. I tell Kell we’ll fight Khan without a title. I think the worst is that we can fight Devon Alexander for a title.”

I just don’t see Broner agreeing to come over to the UK to fight Brook. There’s no upside in going over to the UK to fight an unknown as far as the U.S fans go. Hearn may be doing a good job of building up Brook in the UK by matching him against the likes of fringe fighters like Matthew Hatton and Vyacheslav Senchenko, but he’s not done anything to make Brook known in the U.S. And for that reason, he’ll never get Broner to come to the UK to fight Brook in the next 3-4 months. Why would Broner want to put himself into a position where he’d have to possibly score a knockout just to make sure he gets the win. It would be a tragedy if Broner went over to the UK and got jobbed in Sheffield against a fighter that most casual boxing fans in the U.S have never heard of before.

Hearn can forget about Broner, and definitely he can forget about Mayweather. There is no chance that Mayweather will face an unknown fighter like Brook in one of his four remaining bouts on Showtime PPV. Mayweather needs someone that will help pump up his PPV numbers, not bring them down to the ground. A Mayweather-Brook fight would be lucky to draw 500,000 buys in the U.S, and that’s a dreadful number.

Khan has already said he has no interest in facing Brook because the guy refuses to fight quality opposition. I’m pretty sure that Khan wasn’t impressed with Brook beating Senchenko either. Brook really needed to start fighting better opposition ages ago, and he’s still not doing it. Senchenko isn’t a quality opponent. Therefore, Brook isn’t going to get a fight against Khan.

The only fighter that Brook will be facing is IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander and the only reason that will be happening is because Brook is now the IBF welterweight mandatory challenger. However, it’s still not academic that Brook will even make it to the fight if he starts having feet and ankle problems like last time he was scheduled to face Alexander.



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