Kell Brook hung up the gloves after beating Amir Khan in a fight that he had sought out for years. Still, at 37-years-old, he’s not ruling out a comeback just yet.
The former welterweight world champion was a fan-favourite over the course of his eighteen year campaign, only losing to top dogs Gennady Golovkin, Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford.
Since beating Khan handily in 2022 and retiring, Brook has toyed with a comeback and has been mentioned alongside both Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr – a pair who were, until recently, attempting again to stage a fight of their own.
Speaking to Luckyblock.com, ‘Special K’ said that Chris Eubank Jr was a more realistic prospect given Benn’s ongoing drama stemming from positive doping tests.
“Chris Eubank Jr would be in the driving seat for me if I did come back because of the drug allegation hanging over Conor Benn’s head. He’s not sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control, so he’s a little bit out of the picture. But obviously the two names there, Eubank and Benn, could both excite me enough to get me back in the ring.
If the correct figures were mentioned I could be tempted to put the pipe and slippers away and get the gloves back on. Everywhere I go people are saying they want me out of retirement and that boxing’s dead without me. Apart from me fighting Amir Khan, what fights have really got people excited recently?”
Despite a few choice altercations in the past, Brook said he believes Benn has respect for him as a fighter, but that a contest between the pair depends on his appeal process with the British Boxing Board of Control.
“I think deep down Benn has got respect for me, but he’s a young fighter and got a bit carried away with himself, wanting to be in the limelight. A lot of things have happened in his life over the past couple of years, with these drug allegations and before that he was a pay-per-view fighter. He gave me a bit of a push in Dublin.
He wants to fight, he wants the big fights, but he’s a young kid and he’s got this problem hanging over his head now. We’ll see what happens with the appeal and if he gets his licence. I think it’ll always be a cloud over him.”
As Brook keeps his feet up for now, Benn returns to the ring in February against American Peter Dobson. Since avenging a loss to Liam Smith last year, Eubank hasn’t announced his next move.