Brook wants Thurman fight

[Ruthless-RKO]

Kell Brook hopes to fight new WBA-WBC world welterweight champion Keith Thurman later this year.

Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) defended his WBA belt and gained Danny Garcia's (33-1, 19 KOs) WBC title with a split points decision win over his fellow American on Saturday night.

Briton Brook, the IBF champion, and Filipino Manny Pacquiao, the WBO king, are the other world welterweight title holders in one of boxing's most competitive divisions.

And Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) says he hopes a fight against Thurman can be made for later in the year, providing he successfully defends his IBF belt against American Errol Spence next.

"Garcia and Thurman are both very good champions and it was very hard to split them but I thought Thurman would win the fight because Garcia had not faced a true welterweight before," Brook told ESPN from his training camp in Fuerteventura.

http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id ... -amir-khan

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Brook is losing in may. Then he'll move up.

[sharpei_louis]

Would be happy to see Thurman v the winner of Brook/Spence, loving top fights being made and divisions being cleaned up.
Kudos to Brook IMO, I think after it looking like years of building a reputation fighting relative nobodies, it appears he was probably 'managed' rather than willingly avoiding fights.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

He had two lame mandatories. Brook showed his stoned giving Carson Jones a rematch. That was extremely rare.