The hometown
hero couldn’t save his city and secure his IBF welterweight crown against American
invader Errol Spence Jr.
Kell Brook
went into his knee and called the third man on the ring for help to stop the
fight at R11. In downfall, the Sheffield boxer has wrecked his left eye socket
and faces a surgery.
“They
kept me in until about 3am. I had a CT scan on my eye and the eye is broken
again, the same injury as the Golovkin one, so maybe surgery.” – Kell Brook
Brook confessed that he felt
something strange at R7 but he remains on his feet. When R11 came, He got bombarded
by series of punches. Fearful of the condition getting into worse, he decided
to call it a night.
“I’m devastated. I knew from round seven that
the eye had gone and progressively as the rounds went on. I tried to get
through the fight and it kept going double vision and then coming back into
line.”
“In
the later rounds, especially the 11th round, it stuck there and that’s why I
went down on one knee and I remember the surgeon saying to me after the
Golovkin fight: ‘If you would have gone another round or so you could be
blind’. So, I’ve got that going through my mind as well.” –
This is the
second time he hurts his eye socket. Same injury he agonized from battling
Triple G back in September (Middleweight contest).
His future is
now uncertain and his health is at stake because of what just happened, but his
promoter Eddie Hearn believes that his career won’t end that way. Kell may take
some time out but will be back and continue his career inside the ring.
“There’s
no way Kell will call it a day right now – he’s a proud fighter and won’t want
to go out like this.” - Eddie
Hearn
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