I've gone over and over how this fight will go and I only see me winning, every time." Or he might come in and just run and make the fight a stinker. "He might want to prove to the fans that he can come in and beat me easy, fight me, if he thinks he's levels above me and try to get rid of me. Top level fighters adapt and if I think he's going to go out in a certain way, and then he doesn't, some fighters will fail to adapt but I will be able to adapt. "I'm training for every different situation," Brook said. "I'll use my experience from working with Brendan Ingle early on in my career, and his son Dominic all these years, and stick to the game plan, contain my emotions," Brook said.īrook is unsure which way Khan will approach the fight, but the general consensus is that the Sheffield boxer is the more powerful puncher and stronger fighter. Photo by Warren Little/Getty Imagesĭefeat in four rounds to Crawford in November 2020, followed knockout defeats to Gennadiy Golovkin (up at middleweight, 2016) and Errol Spence (at welterweight, 2017) when Brook suffered broken eye sockets in both those fights. Amir Khan and Kell Brook go head-to-head at news conference at Hilton Park Lane on Nov. Brook, who has been trained by Dominic Ingle and his late father Brendan Ingle his whole career, has suffered three stoppage defeats after reigning as IBF world welterweight champion from 2014 to 2017. I didn't think I would have been able to perform in front of no fans."īrook, from Sheffield, has been training in Fuerteventura, one of Spain's Canary Islands 60 miles off the north coast of Africa, for a fight he has been waiting years to happen. "All my life I have fought in front of big crowds at big venues. "The pandemic took over and I just thought I didn't want to fight in an empty arena," he said. Khan has no regrets about not boxing since a four-round win over Billy Dib in July 2019. The handspeed and accuracy is still there, and I'm older and wiser now so I'm learning from my mistakes." "I'm as fast as I've ever been and I think the break has done me the world of good. "When I realise I can't do this anymore, then I will walk away but I'm outgunning the youngsters at the moment. "I'm training with younger fighters and I'm outrunning them, beating them in the gym, I'm fitter than them and I'm better than them so there's no sign that I'm getting old or past it," Khan told ESPN. Khan, who reigned as world junior welterweight champion from 2009 to 2011, insists his handspeed - his greatest asset - is still as fast as ever despite his age and inactivity. Who is the best fighter regardless of weight class? See ESPN's P4P rankings. I needed motivation too and I want to impress them all, and not just be known for that loss to Terence." Pound-for-pound rankings "Crawford is a better fighter than me, he beat me that night fair and square, but that only gives me the confidence that my training team is working on making me better and they literally dismantled him in his last fight. He's been very supportive of me in camp, says he will be going to England to support me, we are just like one big family in training camp. "They pushed me hard every day and I've done a few rounds with Crawford, sparring, and I can see how much I've come on. As a fighter, old habits die hard so I'm glad I came here early.
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"You need to test yourself and when I fought Crawford, they had the right game plan. "I was in Nebraska for four weeks, then 7,000 ft up in Colorado Springs, it's where Crawford usually trains and I don't think I've ever been pushed like this in a training camp. "A change is good in boxing sometimes," Khan told ESPN. 1 and 2 in ESPN's latest pound-for-pound rankings respectively, in his last five fights but believes he can still be a force again. Khan has been stopped by Crawford and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (2016), No. Khan has trained alongside Crawford in Colorado and Nebraska in preparation for Brook (39-3, 27 KOs), and feels reinvigorated by his change in trainers from Virgil Hunter to McIntyre.
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