Brook vs Khan: Should They Bother, Should We Still Care

Brook vs Khan: Should They Bother, Should We Still Care

When the most eagerly awaited fight of the modern era finally happened in 2015, many wished they hadn’t bothered. After all the waiting, all the hype, it ended up being one big anti-climax.

There is no doubt it would have been a far better spectacle if it had taken place many years before, when both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio were both at their physical peak.

While I’m most definitely not trying draw a direct comparison in ability and even the anticipation, but there are nonetheless certain similarities between the on-off Kell Brook Amir Khan fight.

Eddie Hearn has recently stated he still hopes he can make the fight happen in 2020, but should he now bother and if he does somehow get the signatures, should we really care.

Both Brook and Khan are unlikely to be in the sport for much longer, and it seems like one final farewell lucrative fight for the pair, and for Matchroom, getting one last PPV out of them before they sail into retirement.

Both are clearly nowhere near their peak, and what does it really prove, other than the obvious personal satisfaction for the winner. In a boxing sense it means very little, certainly not what it would have been a few years back.

There is that limited window where a fight ticks every box, where it is about skills rather than who has slipped the least.

For what it’s worth, in my opinion Khan has never really fancied the fight with Brook, and even now if he can go in another direction, I have a feeling he will.

Brook has always seemed the one who really wants it, probably to the detriment of his career. Too much time has been wasted when there were other fights out there for the Sheffield fighter.

The same goes for Khan, chasing fights with the likes of Mayweather and Pacquaio, when there was a big fight right on his doorstep.

Both in the crave for a big fight have taken fights which were all wrong for them, Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez always looked bad ideas, and their careers haven’t really recovered since.

I really have little interest in the fight, I would rather wonder what would have happened, than seeing a pale shadow of what could have been.