Khan: Kell Brook wants 50-50 deal; wake up, son!

By Boxing News - 01/22/2016 - Comments

khan67By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) says that IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) is looking to get a 50-50 deal with him for a proposed fight this summer. That’s not going to happen, as far as Khan is concerned. He doesn’t feel that Brook rates a 50-50 deal, and he wants him to wake up and realize that he’s not going to get a fight with him on even terms financially.

If there is going to be a Khan-Brook fight, it looks like Khan will be getting the lion’s share of the cash. If not, then there won’t be a fight.

Brook and his promoter Eddie Hearn are going to need to decide how badly they want the Khan fight, because they clearly don’t have the same kind of options that Khan has in terms of being able to get big fights in my view.

Khan is like the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Brook is like Gennady Golovkin, as far as available big money options. The reason for that is because Khan is better known in the U.S than Brook. This means that Khan can fight guys like Danny Garcia, Canelo, Golovkin, and all the top welterweights and light welterweights and make good money. Khan would have little problems lining up pretty much any fighter he wants from the 140 to 160lb divisions. That’s just reality.

“And now to Kell Brook. Eddie Hearn is cool. I had a good chat with him at the Smith fight in Liverpool and negotiations started before X-mas,” Khan said on his Twitter. “I want it, Eddie wants it, Sky want it, all the fans want it, but then Kell decides to fight Kevin Bizier who’s lost to Jo Jo Dan twice! 😳 Never known of a world champion to have 3 bum defences back to back, make that 4 if you include Diego Chaves, at least fight some1 in top 10. Mandatories can step aside happens all the time. I was mandatory to Floyd for 2 years with WBC. We could have fought in April, May or first week of June before Ramadan. I’ve got a potential fight with [Danny] Garcia if he wins tomorrow for the WBC [welterweight title]. I’ve been WBC number 1 for 2 years; it’s about time i got my opportunity to avenge that loss. Brook fight could still happen this year, but Brook wants 50/50 split with me. Wake up, son, and smell the coffee! be realistic and make it happen; even Eddie told you you’re not worth that! Fact is they [Brook and Hearn] are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights n profile saying I’m running scared etc. Brook-Alexander called off 3 times; he [Brook] turned down [Tim] Bradley, [Brandon] Rios fight didn’t happen 🙄 N he retired poor Marquez by mentioning his name too much. Seriously, guys, imagine if I fought Jo Jo [Dan] Gallagher, [Frankie] Gavin and Bizier? I’d rather retire. I want the big fights and will continue to do so. Got let down by Floyd [Mayweather Jr.] 3 times, then [Manny] Pacquiao, but plenty big fights out there including Brook, [Danny] Garcia and some other huge fights too 😉 Anyways I’m done 👊🏽” Khan said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHAjwRzA5c

It’s going to be really interesting to see if Hearn and Brook do decide to come down from their asking price in order to make the Khan fight happen. If they don’t, then Brook will have exactly three easy fights ahead of him before he’s going to have to make a big decision whether it’s worth it to keep his IBF title or defend it and potentially get blasted to smithereens by his soon to be mandatory challenger Errol Spence Jr. in 2017. Brook is fighting his IBF mandatory Kevin Bizier on March 26th. After that fight, Brook will have two voluntary defenses available to him to pick bottom feeders if he wishes to help milk his IBF title. However, after that, Brook’s next IBF mandatory defense will be do, and that’s expected to be Spence.

If you’ve had the chance to see Spence fight before, you’ll realize what a limited fighter like Brook would be up against if he took that fight. It’s just a bad, bad match-up for Brook. If I was Brook’s promoter, there’s no way on earth that I would let him fight Spence. I’d have have Brook vacate his IBF title in a second with the excuse that he’s now too big to be fighting at 147.

I would then have Brook move up to 154 and go after the WBO paper champion Liam Smith to win an easy title. Brook could then milk that baby for a year or two, or at least until he’s faced with fighting someone talented like Demetrius Andrade. Like the Spence fight, that’s not a winnable fight for Brook. He would have to either vacate or take a likely beating from Andrade.



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