By Scott Gilfoid: After working hard to try and get a fight against Brandon Rios and failing, IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) will be fighting No.4 IBF Diego Chaves (23-2-1, 19 KOs) on October 24th on Sky Sports from the Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, UK.
Instead of being happy that he’s finally got a fight scheduled, the 29-year-old Brook is harping about how Amir Khan isn’t giving boxing fans the fight they want to see by agreeing to fight him. Khan recently said that he wants to wait until Brook has beaten a couple of other well-known opponents so that their eventual fight will be much bigger than it would be if they were to face each other right now.
Brook doesn’t seem to understand unfortunately, because he seems to fill that his recent wins over Jo Jo Dan and Frankie Gavin are big enough for him to deserve a shot at Khan. Khan asked Brook to fight some top guys like Tim Bradley, Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia. Instead of those guys, we’re now seeing Brook fight Chaves, a fighter that Thurman knocked out and Brandon Rios recently defeated last year.
“I don’t think Khan wants to give the fans what they want to see. He’s not in to the fans. I said it for a long time, it’s the biggest fight out there in Britain, me and Queen Khan,” Brook said via Skysports.com.
With the way Brook has been pursuing a fight against Khan, it’s exactly the way that Khan has been trying to get a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. for all these years. Both Khan and Brook aren’t fighting the guys that they need to fight for them to become big worldwide stars, and both seem to be getting matched carefully, as if they’re fragile and might break if handled.
Khan hasn’t wanted to waste time with Brook, because his career has been narrowly focused on guys like Matthew Hatton, Jo Jo Dan, Gavin, Alvaro Robles, Carson Jones, Vyacheslav Senchenko, Hector David Saldivia, Luis Galarza and Rafal Jackiewicz. Brook has been fighting largely domestic level opposition for his entire career, and he’s not branched out to fight the world class opponents that he needs to for him to become a popular fighter outside of the UK.
The above mentioned fighters are the guys that Brook has spent the last four years of his career fighting. He’s failed to step up, and even now, he’s still ntoi stepping up in taking a safe fight against Chaves rather than a dangerous welterweight with the talent and the power to beat him. As such, it’s no wonder that Khan is ignoring Brook, because the guy isn’t facing the guys that he needs to, and when he’s told by Knhan to fight two really good fighters, he picks Chaves instead of the dangerous guys.
“I don’t know what he is messing about at. He’s been bugging Mayweather for the fight for years,” Brook said. “He’s not got the fight, so what’s the next fight that’s bigger for him? It’s me and Khan. I wouldn’t have my hands full. I said it from day one, I said it before, his whiskers are delicate. When this brownie hits his chin, it is going to shatter and he is going to do that dance he likes to do. His whiskers are delicate, brittle. He is Bambi on ice; all them rolled in to one.”
Brook comes across as too needy and desperate for the Khan fight, as if he needs him in order to make his own career float. I think that’s a real negative for Brook, because he should be able to make his career move ahead without having to fight Khan. If his promoter Eddie Hearn would stop matching Brook against the likes of Jo Jo Dan, Chaves, Carson Jones and Frankie Gavin, and instead start matching him against Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman, Tim Bradley, Danny Garcia, Marcos Maidana and Errol Spence. If Brook started fighting those guys, he’d become a worldwide star, if he could beat them. But I don’t see Hearn opting to put Brook in with those guys, because he’d likely lose to all of them.
If Brook can’t make anything out of his career with the fighters that Hearn is matching him with, then ne needs to think about switching promoters to find one that will match him against the best.
It would be so much better if Brook clammed up about his need to fight Khan, and instead started fighting the other fighters with better talent than Khan, maybe boxing fans around the world would start seeing Brook as a good fighter. But right now, Brook is still an unknown pretty much in the U.S, and I don’t see that changing with his fight against Chaves. He needs to seriously upgrade the level of talent that he’s fighting. If he can’t do that, then he needs to vacate the IBF title and focus on striving to be the EBU or British welterweight champion so that he can fight guys like Gavin and Matthew Hatton 24/7.
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