khan56 By Scott Gilfoid: If IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (34-0, 23 KOPs) wants a fight against Amir Khan (30-3, 19 KOs) badly enough then he’s going to have to agree to a winner take all fight with the winner of the bout collecting all the cash.

This is what Khan, 28, is offering Brook if he wants the fight with him. Khan believes that the only reason that Brook wants the fight with him is because he’s looking to cash out.

With the huge money that will be on the line for the fight, Brook essentially would never have to fight again, as he would get enough money from their pay-per-view fight at Wembley Stadium to retire on. Even if Brook doesn’t retire, he could become very, very selective in the type of opponents he faces. We’re seeing that with WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch after he made big cash in his two fights with George Groves.

“Kell Brook, if you want to take the fight, winner takes all, I’m up for it because I know I’ll take everything because I’ll beat you. So let’s do it, man,” Khan said via skysports.com. “And maybe that’s why he wants it, because he knows that last fight against me will financially secure him for the rest of his life. So maybe he just wants that.”

I don’t know what Brook’s reasons are for wanting to fight Khan so bad, but you’d have to assume that the green stuff has something to do with it. I mean, we’re not exactly see Brook running in the direction of the unbeaten WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman, are we?

Thurman is considered to be a better fighter than Khan in the eyes of a lot of boxing fans, and he’s got a world title in his possession and an unbeaten record. If it was only about wanting to the best and collect titles, you would assume that Brook would want to fight Thurman a heck of a lot more than Khan, wouldn’t you?

Khan is just some guy that was beaten twice when he stepped up a level in 2011 and 2012 in losses to Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson. Since that time, Khan has been on a slow, slow rebuilding period with his career, and he’s not faced anyone that I would call a good fighter during that time.

Why would Brook want to fight Khan when Thurman is available and very interested in fighting him? Money obviously has a lot to do with Brook wanting to fight Khan. It’s not as if Brook will get a ton of kudos if he beats Khan, because he’s already been beaten three times in his career.

“I’d love to go in the ring and fight Kell Brook, it could be his last fight against me because the thing is, I’ll give him that much of a beating it could end up being his last fight,” Khan said.

Khan went on to say that his priority right now is to try and get fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao. Brook isn’t a priority for him. But obviously it might become a priority if he could get Brook to agree to a winner takes all type of fight. However, I’m not so sure that this is something that could actually take place. I think it would be blocked by the International Boxing Federation.

I doubt they would officially sanction a fight where the purse would be a winner take all type thing. I just don’t see it happening. It’s nice that both fighters are flapping their gums about a fight between them being a winner takes all type affair, but in reality I don’t think it’s possible.
“I’ll believe that when I see it because they (Khan’s camp) have no desire to fight Kell Brook,” said Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn to skysports.com.