Kell Brook can’t wait for Bizier fight on Saturday

By Boxing News - 03/22/2016 - Comments

brook101By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell “Special K” Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) can’t wait to get inside the ring to face Kevin Bizier (25-2, 17 KOs) this Saturday night on March 26 at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, UK.

Brook, 29, has been out of action for the past 10 months since his last fight in May of 2015 against an over-matched fellow Matchroom Sport fighter Frankie Gavin.

Brook suffered an abdominal injury last year that wiped out a fight against #4 IBF Diego Chaves that would have been arguably the second toughest opponent of Brooks’ career. You have to go back to 2014 for Brook’s last real fight against Shawn Porter.

All of Brook’s fights before and since then have been showcase mismatch type fights with Brook fighting largely poor opponents picked out either by his promoters or by the sanctioning bodies.

“I’m a caged animal but I’m comfortable in my own surroundings here, and I’m excited to get back in there on Saturday and put a real show on for all the fans.” Brook said to skysports.com. “I’m ready to tear someone up. Saturday night can’t come quick enough and I’m really excited.”

Put a sock in it, Brook. The way you’re talking, you sound like your just found a cure for cancer. Let’s put this fight in perspective, will we? You’re basically fighting a guy that is arguably little more than a 2nd tier fighter with a BADLY inflated ranking by the International Boxing Federation. Just why the IBF has decided to give Bizier a #1 ranking with their organization is the big question.

The fact of the matter is Bizier has beaten twice by Jo Jo Dan, a fighter that you recently whipped. There’s no reason that I can see why the IBF has Bizier as your number one fighter. I know if I was in the IBF committee that voted on whether to make Bizier the Number 1 contender with the organization, I would have laughed them out of the room.

YouTube video

I would have gotten up there and filibustered the pick by reading chicken soup recipes for hours and hours in order to block the selection of Bizier. It just makes no sense, and it’s actually a step down for you from your last fight against little Frankie Gavin. What a mismatch that was, and a mismatch straight in the door. I still don’t know why you ever agreed with Eddie Hearn to let you fight Gavin. Talk about poor career moves.

“I’m world champion and I just want to be in cracking fights, those really exciting, competitive fights,” said Brook. “Saturday night we’re going to take care of Kevin Bizier, we’re going to get the job done and then Eddie Hearn will have something really big lined up for us in the summer.”

Brook wants his big summer fight, and he sounds like he’s really counting on Hearn to find himself a good opponent. I know if I was in the same position as Brook, I wouldn’t expect anything from Hearn other than what I’ve gotten in the past. In other words, instead of thinking I’m going to get a big money fight against the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Gennady Golovkin, Tim Bradley, Miguel Cotto or Danny Garcia, I’d be expecting Hearn to bring in someone like Chris Algieri, Robert Guerrero or Sadam Ali for Brook to fight in his “big summer” fight.

Coming events cast their shadows before. We’re probably going to see Hearn stick to his usual pattern of matching Brook against lower level fringe contenders or guys with inflated rankings. Brook will then beat the stuffing out of the poor sap, and then brag about the win afterwards like it was a big deal instead of a sick showcase fight.

I would like to see Brook step it up in a major way after the Bizier mismatch on Saturday night, but do I see that happening? Nope. I’d say the chances are that Brook and Hearn are going to yap like mad about this or that opponent that they’ve worked up a lather about, but at the end of the day, we’ll see another Frankie Gavin like opponent trotted out for Brook to obliterate in short order. Brook wants the big fights, but there seems to be a problem somewhere. Maybe Hearn isn’t offering enough cash for the good fighters to come to the UK to risk getting jobbed for a fight against Brook.



Comments are closed.