Alexander: I’ll be fighting Kell Brook next; I’m obligated

By Boxing News - 02/16/2013 - Comments

alexander45By Scott Gilfoid: Yesterday, IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander took some time out to let his unbeaten challenger Kell Brook know in an interview that he doesn’t have any reason to stress out about Alexander not fighting him next because he does plan on doing that as soon as his injured right bicep muscle heals.

Brook got bent out of shape recently in hearing the news that Floyd Mayweather Jr. was interested in facing Alexander on May 4th. Mayweather made a simple tweet, and that was enough to get Brook and his promoter Eddie Hearn stressed out in a major way without Alexander having said a word himself.

Alexander said to I Film London Everybody went crazy over the tweet. My obligation is to fight Kell Brook and that’s what I’m going to do. We’ll be back in the gym next week, my arm is feeling much better. I needed to push it back a few weeks as I want to be 100 percent. I know they were gutted – I didn’t mean to gut anybody. I never cancelled a fight in my 25 career fights, so for me to cancel it had to be something serious.”

So there it is. Alexander will still be facing Brook at some point as soon as his arm heals up. Brook can now quit whining about it and focus on trying to stay in shape, and coming up with a halfway decent plan to try and win. I don’t see it working out well for Brook no matter what plan his team comes up with. Alexander simply has the cards for this fight in terms of home country advantage, experience, stamina, talent, you name it.

All this worrying that Brook has will be for nothing once the fight takes place if he doesn’t perform better than he did in his bout with Carson Jones last year. Brook looked like he was fighting for the first time in his career in that bout, as he just didn’t look ready to be facing a pressure fighter. Jones used a simply strategy of walking Brook down, and it worked to perfection with Brook gassing out from the pressure.



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