INSTA NT SUCCESS
Media-savvy Kell is looking good for scrap with Amir
KELL BROOK claims he is monitoring his output on Instagram for fear of scaring off Amir Khan.
Promoter Eddie Hearn revealed last week that the bitter rivals could finally share a ring in March or May next year.
The pair are understood to have shaken hands on Saturday at the Oleksandr Usyk-Tony Bellew fight with Khan reportedly telling Brook: “Trust me, it’s happening.”
The Sheffield fighter certainly hopes so and if he can overcome Michael Zerafa in his home city next month he will go full tilt for the clash with Khan.
Ahead of his meeting with Aussie Zerafa, however, Brook’s 240,000-odd Instagram followers are getting regular reminders of what good shape he is in.
And Special K, 32, reckons that could be preventing the former WBA world super and IBF world super lightweight belt holder Khan, 31, from accepting the fight.
Brook said: “Obviously, the fight myself and every single boxing fan around the world wants to see is me and The Queen (Khan).
“I believe it can happen but I’ve just got to be a bit careful with my Instagram stories because I’m looking the part.
“I don’t want to scare him off because I need him to sign that contract and I can open a can of whoop-ass on him.”
The pair have ramped up their war of words in the last year or so with many fight fans believing a long-overdue battle might finally be on the cards.
Every apparent step forward, however, has been greeted with claims that certain stipulations from one of the fighters has thrown a spanner in the works.
But Brook, the former IBF world welterweight champ, added: “The fans absolutely know now that my ego is nothing compared to his. He has been HARMS WAY? Wesley putting ridiculous things about me on social media – he’s like a prima donna. “I just want to make it happen.
“I don’t want to end my career one day and the biggest fight never happened.
“It’s something the fans deserve, from me and him.
“We’re both British and I’m the General at welterweight.
“He’s saying other things so, like I say, let’s get in there and lock horns and see who’s the one.”
Brook’s fight with
Zerafa at the
Sheffield Arena on December
8, will be his first under his new trainer
Adam
Bailey after splitting with
Dominic
Ingle.
And Brook said: “I’m absolutely buzzing that
I’ve got an opponent named for December.
“I’ll be fighting a dangerous fighter.
I’m very, very happy.
“Things are going brilliantly.
“I’m just excited about myself, I’m just excited about the new me, the new start.
“I’m excited with the way I’m feeling and what I’m doing in the gym, the new things. I’m excited about getting to every single training session.
“I’m sleeping like a baby.” DARTS chief Barry Hearn has vowed to “get to the bottom” of the ‘fartgate’ row – after two-time world champion Gary Anderson and rival Wesley Harms accused each other of breaking wind on the oche.
Anderson beat his Dutch opponent 10-2 at the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton on Thursday but Harms blamed “rotten egg smells” for his collapse.
“We’ve got to get to the bottom of this,” joked PDC chairman Barry Hearn, with deep-voiced caller Russ Bray also coming under scrutiny.
Hearn added: “I guess people wonder if blowing off