Brook vs Khan: The Weight, The Wait, Maybe It’s Time to Let it Go

Brook vs Khan: The Weight, The Wait, Maybe It’s Time to Let it Go

If as expected Amir Khan comes through his fight on Saturday all the focus will yet again turn to Kell Brook, and it might be a case of now or never if we are to see this domestic blockbuster.

So often with these kinds of fights who wins, timing is usually the key. When Brook held the IBF welterweight title I strongly favoured the Sheffield fighter, but now Khan maybe has the edge especially if the fight gets made at welterweight.

Brook has struggled to make 147 for a number of years and after Errol Spence Jr relived him of his world title last May his days as a welterweight looked over. The former welterweight champion returned earlier this year at the higher weight and appeared set to challenge for world honours again at light middleweight.

But Brook still clearly is desparate for the Khan fight and would still consider taking the fight at welterweight.

While you can understand Brook wanting the fight and the PPV enhanced purse that will come with it, but sometimes you have to let things go. Meeting his great rival at welterweight gives Khan a potentially decisive advantage and personally if its welterweight or leave it, if I was Brook I would leave it.

I wouldn’t blame Khan if he won’t take the fight at catch weight, he must do what’s best for him and if Brook can’t make welterweight it’s not his problem.

I’ve always felt that Brook wants the fight and Khan doesn’t, but knowing he would face a potentially depleted weight drained opponent would surely make the fight far more tempting for Khan.

Both fighters have had frustrations landed the big fights they crave and deserve and both probably out of sheer desparation took fights against Alvarez and Golovkin they were highly unlikely to win.

If the fight gets made I want to see it when both are at their best, seeing Brook fighting at a weight where his chances are greatly diminished my interest fades somewhat.

Brook vs Khan has a sense of that ship has now sailed and like Mayweather against Pacquiao it might be better if we don’t see it rather than have a shadow of the fight it could have been a few years earlier.