Amir Khan: No Kell Brook fight at 154, has to be 147

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Top WBC welterweight contender Amir Khan has informed WBN his immediate future lies at 147 pounds as the Bolton man prepares to return next year.

Khan has been linked to a massive all-UK clash with Kell Brook for some time now, although his main rival is said to be considering a move up in weight after a first career defeat against Gennady Golovkin.

Brook headed to middleweight in losing a fifth round stoppage to the big-punching Kazakh at The O2 in London and there are doubts ‘The Special One’ will decide to go all the way back down to welterweight.

Despite holding a world title and having a mandatory fight against Errol Spence in front of him, Khan hopes Brook will decide to remain at 147 pounds after ruling out going up to super-welterweight himself for any imminent clash.

“I think I’d be more comfortable at 147,” Khan exclusively told World Boxing News.

“With the money that’s going to be on the table, Brook should consider at least one more fight at 147. I think he’d want to take a fight with me. But if it happens, it would have to happen at 147, to be honest. That’s where I’m comfortable. I am interested in that fight so that’s where it would be. 147 would be better for me.”

On the possibility of Spence getting in the way of as massive British pay-per-view encounter, Khan believes the American’s presence as the next in line could be the final push that sees Brook leave 147 pounds behind.

“I think Errol Spence is one of the reasons why Brook will move up to 154. He knows he’s going to have his hands full against Spence.

“It just shows the type of fighter I am and Brook is. He’s fought so many mandatories without any problem, but when it comes to fighting a good mandatory, he’s moving up a weight.

“I’m sure if it was another Jo Jo Dan or Kevin Bizier, I’m sure he would have stayed at 147. There’s a difference in going for the big names knowing you’re going to get beat, and people think you’re going to get beat but it takes balls to go in there like with GGG, to fighting someone like Errol Spence where it’s a 50-50 fight.

“I made those sort of fights when I fought Lamont Peterson, Danny Garcia, Marcos Maidana and Zab Judah. I fought all those guys, whereas Kell hasn’t done that. He jumped from fighting low calibre fighters, straight up to the pound for pound best fighter in the world where everyone expected him to lose. But he won’t want to stay in the middle area as he knows he will get found out.

“If he moves up I think he’ll find it very difficult there. The likes of the Charlo brothers are up there and they are good boxers, they hit hard as well. If he can compete or not it would be very hard to say, but it will be difficult for him.

“Maybe Miguel Cotto would be a good fight for Kell Brook because Cotto is now kind of done. Cotto is a fight I’d love to have as well. He’s a massive name in boxing and is a winnable fight,” he added.

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Here we go again,slagging Brook for not fighting Spence .

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I'm not Khan's biggest fan but he made some decent points there.

[Counter-puncher]

Hes comparing himself fighting Peterson and Judah, with brook fighting (or more accurately not fighting) Spence, I'm not convinced.

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Hes comparing himself fighting Peterson and Judah, with brook fighting (or more accurately not fighting) Spence, I'm not convinced.

I agree that Spence is a more dangerous guy than those two but Peterson and say Maidana rather than Judah were both amongst the best in the division when Khan fought them. A lot of people thought Khan was going to be knocked out by Maidana when they fought, and he very nearly was.

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I'm not Khan's biggest fan but he made some decent points there.

I agree with the points me was makimg aswel. Brook probably gets KO'd at 154, that's 2 losses. Then he'll crawl back to 147

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Amir Khan seems remarkably concerned about what Kell Brook is doing, which is odd, as he didn't want to fight Brook in the first place.

Brook chased him & he turned his nose up & now he is criticising Brook's admittedly poor level of oppostion.

It doesn't say much for Khan then, that Brook would chase him, if he thinks that Brook doesn't want to fight anyone decent at 147.

I think that in the future, when he is asked about Brook, he should swerve the question just like he swerved the notion of fighting him.

[Cygnus475]

Say what you want about Khan but he's speaking nothing but the truth here.

There was nothing brave about jumping two weight classes to fight a p4p slugger everyone knew he'd lose to for a payday. Mr. King of the mandatories suddenly cant fulfill his obligations now that a monster like spence is going after him.

Khan wants it at 147 to keep his welterweight ranking and a chance to grab a belt. He wants all the cards. He's dannys mandatory but he has to fight keith in the spring. Ideally (for khan anyway) these two destroy each other meanwhile, brook and spence slug it out. Khan fights the winners, throw in the winner of vargas/pac and we get an undisputed welterweight champ.

...if only. Sad state of boxing when one can inly dream of such a scenario.

[Stuarty]

Khan is a little prick. He loves money and he'd make a tonne of it fighting Brook! He's hesitating and making excuses because he knows he'd be knocked out! It's as simple as that in my book!

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Amir Khan can't grasp the fact that he is becoming a forgotten name at 147. Nobody cares about you anymore, Amir.

[Badhusker]

I wish someone would ask Khan if he would fight Spence. Seriously, he is about one more KO away from being insignificant.

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I wish someone would ask Khan if he would fight Spence. Seriously, he is about one more KO away from being insignificant.

On the money.

Khan loves talking; he just doesn't do a lot of fighting these days.

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how can khan slag brook off for fighting GGG when he got sparked by canelo ,

Short memory allied to his delusion.

Khan is not making himself look very good at the moment, but that is par for the course with him for the last few years or so.

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Khan is a little prick. He loves money and he'd make a tonne of it fighting Brook! He's hesitating and making excuses because he knows he'd be knocked out! It's as simple as that in my book!

Other way around, Khan didn't want to fight Brook, because that was Brook's biggest payday.. Now that Brook has fought GGG, he's more known to casual fans.. Now they can both make a tonne of money. Domestically, they both know it's a massive payday

[Stuarty]

Khan is a little prick. He loves money and he'd make a tonne of it fighting Brook! He's hesitating and making excuses because he knows he'd be knocked out! It's as simple as that in my book!

Other way around, Khan didn't want to fight Brook, because that was Brook's biggest payday.. Now that Brook has fought GGG, he's more known to casual fans.. Now they can both make a tonne of money. Domestically, they both know it's a massive payday

What's the other way around? Both guys don't like each other, both would make a packet from the fight and Khan has been making excuses from the get go because he knows he'd get ko'd. It's pretty transparent as far as I can see.

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Khan ducked Brook for years.
Pure fact.

Anyone who is still listening to Khan has some serious mental disorder.

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Khan ducked Brook for years.
Pure fact.

Anyone who is still listening to Khan has some serious mental disorder.

So by this logic, Tim Bradley ducked Khan?

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Khan ducked Brook for years.
Pure fact.

Anyone who is still listening to Khan has some serious mental disorder.

So by this logic, Tim Bradley ducked Khan?

Yeah big time duck,
but Tim Bradley went on to a TRILOGY with Manny.

Khan ...

Get lost, Don't quote me with sh!t.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Khan ducked Brook for years.
Pure fact.

Anyone who is still listening to Khan has some serious mental disorder.

So by this logic, Tim Bradley ducked Khan?

Yeah big time duck,
but Tim Bradley went on to a TRILOGY with Manny.

Khan ...

Get lost, Don't quote me with sh!t.

Yeh, sure. It's called a duck when you've got other plans? So really, every boxer ducks

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Yeh, sure. It's called a duck when you've got other plans? So really, every boxer ducks

No it's a duck when you fight a worse opponent (or get more money ) ... I thought this was one of our standards.

So turning down Amir for Manny, not a duck. MUCH better opponent, much more money.
Turning down Brook for Molina, Diaz, Collazo, Alexander and Algeri is a duck.

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Yeh, sure. It's called a duck when you've got other plans? So really, every boxer ducks

No it's a duck when you fight a worse opponent (or get more money ) ... I thought this was one of our standards.

So turning down Amir for Manny, not a duck. MUCH better opponent, much more money.
Turning down Brook for Molina, Diaz, Collazo, Alexander and Algeri is a duck.

You missed out Canelo though?

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You missed out Canelo though?

No I didn't, I listed 5 fighters and almost 3 years of activity.

Bradley left the Khan fight for the promise of Manny.
He fought one fight, then Manny.

Are you saying Khan has been ducking Brook and many other top fighters at 147,
because he knew he was heading for Canelo?

Whatever, I get it. Khan is completely delusional.
How then can someone expect his fans to be sensible?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5TuX4QTAXw

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