Hearn hoping Khan will take Brook fight

By Boxing News - 10/26/2015 - Comments

khan5555By Scott Gilfoid: It’s starting to look like Amir Khan could end up not getting the Manny Pacquiao fight like he’d been hoping to get. This would be the second big money fight that Khan has missed out on if he fails to get the fight against the Filipino fighter. But Khan can still get a big money fight if he chooses to face IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, who has a fight coming up in the near future against Diego Chaves.

If Brook wins that fight, he’ll be available fight a big match-up with Khan in the UK. That’s what Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn is hoping for. However, that doesn’t mean the fight will happen.

Khan already told Brook and Hearn that he wants to see him fight some quality fighters before he agrees to face him. Chaves wasn’t one of the names that Khan asked Brook to fight.

Hearn thinks that Khan is afraid to take the fight with Brook due to the risk of him losing the fight.

“I think the fact is Amir Khan does not want to lose to Kell Brook. He’s not stupid,” Hearn said to Fighthype.com. “He knows there is a good chance of that happening. He calls out virtually everyone in the division, but fails to call out the number 1 ranked Welterweight in the world, Kell Brook. There isn’t really much we can do. Let’s hope Amir wakes up and fancies a shot at a world title, a bucket load of money, creating history, and giving the British boxing fans what they want.”

I don’t see Brook being the No.1 welterweight in the world, as Hearn calls him. He’s not even close to being the No.1 fighter at 147. Thurman should be seen as the No.1 guy right now at welterweight, followed by Manny Pacquiao, Tim Bradley, Porter, Errol Spence, Danny Garcia, Khan and then Brook. It doesn’t matter that Brook has the IBF paper title. I don’t see him as being as good as those fighters.

Well, if Brook doesn’t get the big money fight against Khan, then I can’t see where he’ll ever get a big money fight in the future. There’s no big names at welterweight for Brook to fight right now other than Khan, and Hearn doesn’t seem all that interested in matching Brook tough against Keith Thurman, Errol Spence or Danny Garcia. I doubt that he would even match him against Shawn Porter again now that Porter knows how to deal with fighters that use clinching nonstop like Brook.

Hearn certainly isn’t going to turn Brook into a huge star with the kind of match-making he’s doing right now by putting him in with the likes of Chaves, Frankie Gavin, Jo Jo Dan, Avaro Robles, Vyacheslav Senchenko and Carson Jones. Those are all weak opponents. Hearn seems to be matching Brook the same way that he’s matching Chris Eubank Jr. for some reason.

Yeah, it’s keeping Brook unbeaten, but it’s also preventing him from becoming a star. In the U.S, Brook is basically invisible and not thought about at all by the casual boxing fans, and that’s because he’s not being matched up with top talents in fights that are televised in the U.S.



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