Brook: I deserve the Mayweather fight more than Khan

By Boxing News - 06/25/2015 - Comments

brook3By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) doesn’t want fellow Brit Amir Khan to get the fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September, even though it doesn’t look like Khan is even in the running.

Brook feels that he rates the fight against Mayweather because he’s sporting an unbeaten and has the IBF welterweight title in his possession at this time. Brook wants Mayweather or Khan, but it’s becoming readily apparent that he’s going to need to settle for Brandon Rios.

Rios is a good opponent, but he won’t bring the kind of attention and money that a fight against Mayweather or Khan would bring for Brook.

“There is no bigger fight domestically than me and in Britain,” Brook said via Skysports.com. “It sells any arena out. It doesn’t make any sense at all. He’s got to be running scared. There’s no sense in him getting the Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight. He’s done nothing to deserve that fight. Every time he steps up, he gets knocked out. I don’t know why he’s playing these games. He’s got no right to fight Floyd Mayweather.”

If Brook would just forget about fighting Khan and Mayweather and instead start fighting some good welterweights, then maybe he’d get the fights that he’s been squawking about for so long. Come on, the guy has been routinely fighting just plain awful opposition for the past 11 years.

Is it any wonder that he’s not able to get the fights that he wants given that the guys he’s been fighting are named Alvaro Robles, Vyachev Senchenko, Jo Jo Dan and Frankie Gavin. Those are the type of guys that Brook should have gotten out of his system in his second years as a pro, not in his 10th and 11th years.

The way that Brook is hung up on fighting Khan is almost the same way that Khan is hung up on fighting Mayweather. The truth is neither of these guys can get a hint that there’s no interest there. They need to keep their dignity together and just move on permanently. The way that these guys hang on forever trying to get fights that just aren’t there for them makes them both look incredibly desperate to the point where it’s just off putting to say the least.

“He’s [Khan] not a fully-fledged welterweight. He looked like rubbish in his last fight,” Brook said. “If anyone’s going to fight Floyd Mayweather, it’s going to be me. I’m unbeaten and I’m a world champion. I don’t know why he’s trying to trying to jump the queue. He brings nothing to the table. That’s the fight we want. We want the biggest fights, and Mayweather is the best pound for pound fighter in the world and we’re in the same weight category. That’s the fight we’re looking at. I’m the perfect fight for him. I’m the only other welterweight with a world title.”

I hate to be the one to break this to Brook, but he and Mayweather aren’t the only other welterweights with a strap. Keith Thurman holds the WBA World welterweight title, and we’re about to see the winner of this Saturday’s fight between Tim Bradley and Jessie Vargas pick up either the WBO interim welterweight title or the full WBO strap depending on what Mayweather does.



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