By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he made some great progress in the last 24 hours in negotiations with Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) for a fight on June 4th at Wembley Stadium in London, UK.
Hearn says that 48 hours ago, he felt that the fight wouldn’t happen between Khan and Brook. However, after a phone call that he had with Team Khan in the last 24 hours, Hearn now feels that the fight will happen after all. Hearn is obviously excited about it. If the fight didn’t happen, Brook would be looking at trying to fight the winner of the Shawn Porter vs. Keith Thurman fight or against WBC champion Danny Garcia.
I think Brook loses badly to Porter or Thurman. A fight against Garcia would be a 50-50 affair. If it took place in the U.S., I couldn’t see Brook winning at all, period. The only way he beats Garcia in the U.S. is by knockout in my opinion.
“We’ve made decent progress in the last 24 hours, but these are the ups and downs of making a fight,” Hearn said to skysports.com. “If you had asked me 48 hours ago, I would have told you this is dead, a waste of time and then all of a sudden you have one phone call and you think ‘you know what, this might just get made.’”
I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high if I were Hearn, because he might be reading this wrong. Unless Hearn gives Khan want he wants, I don’t see the fight taking place. If Khan wants an 80-20 split of the loot, then Brook is going to probably need to give in to his demands if he wants the fight. Khan is definitely the A-side in this negotiations. The reason for that is because he’s accomplished a lot more with his pro and amateur career than Brook. That’s the fault of Brook’s management.
“We had one of those conversations in the last 24 hours. So, boxing fans, don’t give up hope on Brook against Khan on June 4 at Wembley just yet,” Hearn said.
I think Hearn needs to put a sock in it right now, and try to stay calm. Nothing is done yet. If I’m Khan, I would start raising my price if I saw how Hearn was crowing now like a mother hen and running around the hen house congratulating everyone like the fight was made.
If Brook’s manage had matched him tough against the best in the 147lb division after a couple of years as a pro, then he’d have a lot more well-known scalps on his resume than he does now. The problem is Brook is a 12-year pro veteran, and his resume is like that of a guy that just started fighting. Brook only has Shawn Porter’s name on his resume.
Gym in #Haward California grinding away. Bag work. Working on drills, long range boxing. pic.twitter.com/pIPQUkmZH3
— Amir Khan (@AmirKingKhan) January 27, 2016
The other guys are 2nd tier jobs like Vyachecheslav Senchenko, Carson Jones, Frankie Gavin, Jo Jo Dan, Hector David Saldivia, Alvaro Robles, Matthew Hatton, Luis Galarza and Rafal Jackiewicz. Those are the type of guys you would be facing if you were the EBU champion. It’s just so, so sad how Brook has been matched during his career. Could you imagine Floyd Mayweather Jr. being matched against those guys in the first 12 years of his career? I mean, I’m not comparing Brook to Mayweather at all. I’m just saying that Brook’s opposition has been gawd awful to the extreme.
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