Kell Brook is incensed at the news that Amir Khan failed a post-fight doping test after the pair had settled their score in the ring.
Khan was tested immediately after the bout and was informed weeks later that his sample had contained banned performance enhancing drug, ostarine.
He was temporarily suspended before an official hearing in which he was handed a two-year ban, even despite the panel accepting his explanation that it was not intentional doping.
According to those involved, Brook, the British Board, BOXXER, or Sky Sports were not informed of the test results by the UK Anti-Doping Agency until the news broke today.
IFL TV caught up with Brook – who retired after beating Khan but is now mounting a comeback – for his reaction to the news.
“I heard about it today when everyone else heard about it. I’m disgusted about it. It’s been over a year since we boxed, finding out this guy has been cheating in the fight we had, it made me feel sick.
He’s gone in there, I’ve got three beautiful kids, he’s gone in there to try and hurt me on some kind of drug, it’s a f**king joke.
At the end of the day it was in him, he was going into the fight with a drug to enhance him and hurt me in a sport you can legally get killed in. You know it’s in your system, you’ve gone in there to hurt me bad.”
Brook won by sixth round stoppage in a showing that totally outclassed a past-it Khan. He was asked if the narrative now would be different had he instead been stopped that night in Manchester.
“Absolutely it could be a complete different story, I could be in a wheelchair now, destroyed my life, kill me, because I won people are going to forget about it.
He came into that ring cheating, trying to boost himself up, trying to get the advantage on me, he needs to pay bad.”
Khan has begged fans to believe that he would never intentionally take PEDs and has said the amount found in his system was miniscule. It has, however, done absolutely nothing to assuage Brook’s rage.