MANCHESTER, England — Kell Brook will look back on Saturday’s sixth-round stoppage win over English rival Amir Khan as one of his career highlights and perhaps more satisfying than winning a world title. But don’t assume this will catapult Brook back into title contention.
Brook (40-4, 27 KOs), 35, was impressive — only his 2014 decision win over Shawn Porter for the IBF welterweight world title was better — and it was an emphatic response to his previous fight, in which he was stopped by Terence Crawford in November 2020.
But despite overpowering Khan with such gusto, Brook might not be involved in as big a fight again.
He knows it, too.
“I’ve had a fantastic career and been over to America to win a world title, been in with Gennadiy Golovkin, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford, but I always wanted to have this fight with Amir,” Brook said. “I felt like a 22-year-old in the ring today, but I’m going to sit down with my family and talk about it.”
Brook’s options are limited as he has been stopped by the division’s best two operators — Crawford and Spence — and would find it tough going against the division’s other top fighters.
Brook was knocked out by Crawford in four rounds and by Spence in 11 rounds (in 2017), which ended his reign as champion after three defenses. To add to that, Brook suffered broken eye sockets in losses to Spence and Golovkin (2016).
Brook also entered Saturday’s fight without a top-10 ranking in any of the four world boxing governing bodies at welterweight, which will be another thing for him to…
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