Boxing News: Kell Brook, the former welterweight world champion, has announced his retirement from boxing at the age of 36.
Brook knocked out his arch-rival Amir Khan in the sixth round of their long-awaited showdown at the AO Arena in Manchester in February.
Brook has a professional record of 40 wins and three losses in 43 fights, with 28 knockout victories. He lost to middleweight Gennady Golovkin and welterweights Terence Crawford and Errol Spence in three fights.
“I’ve had a long talk with my family and my parents, and it’s over for me,” Brook stated in an interview with the Telegraph, announcing his decision. I’m never going to box again.
“It’s a little emotional to be actually saying this out loud. My mum is relieved. I think everyone around me is pleased.
“Truth is, boxing is a very, very tough, dangerous sport, one in which you can be legally killed in the ring, and I’ve finished now with all my faculties intact.”
Asked if he could ever be tempted out of retirement for a future comeback, the Sheffield-born fighter said: “I just don’t see it. It’s not there anymore.”
Brook was the IBF welterweight champion from 2014 to 2017, and The Ring magazine named him the greatest active welterweight in the world in 2017.
Brook became the first British boxer since Lloyd Honeyghan defeated Donald Curry in 1986 to win a world title from an unbeaten American on American territory when he defeated Shawn Porter in 2014.
Brook claims to be “at peace” with his decision after realising his dream of being a world champion. After finally getting to confront Khan in the ring in what will be his final bout, he added, “no evil feeling remained in me.”
“I needed the Khan fight, I needed to settle the grudge, the feud,” Brook said. “There is no dark feeling left in me now, I think when you have been in the ring with someone it passes, it leaves you.
“Me and Amir said some words which were hateful in the build-up, but that’s what happens in boxing.
“I respect him after the fight. He showed real heart in there.”
Asked of his boxing legacy, Brook added: “I’d just like to be remembered as a fighter who would go in with anyone, feared no one, and who gave the fans what they wanted.”
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