By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is taking the shotgun approach to trying to get his fighter IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) a big money fight for the summer. Hearn has targeted the following fighters for Brook for the 32,000 seat Bramall Lane in Sheffield: Gennady Golovkin, Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley winner, Miguel Cotto, Danny Garcia and Jessie Vargas.
Hearn says the fighters he wants the most for Brook is Pacquiao and Bradley. He would also like Cotto, as he says HBO approached him about fighting Cotto on June 18, but he thinks Cotto is interested in fighting someone else. As for the Golovkin fight, Hearn says he spoke with Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler about the two fighters facing each other at a catch-weight of 157lbs.