KELL BATTLE TO FIGHT ON
More eye surgery could spell the end
KELL BROOK needs more eye surgery if he is to save his boxing career.
The Sheffield welterweight insists he will be back after surrendering his IBF title to American Errol Spence Jnr.
He was stopped in the 11th round of a thrilling clash at Bramall Lane on Saturday.
But Brook’s left eye socket was fractured in the cracking fight and he needs another operation to repair the shattered bone. ®
He needed the same repair job on his right eye socket lashed in big lefts to following defeat by Gennady floor his opponent in Golovkin last September. the 10th.
Promoter Eddie Hearn The Sheffield man went said: “I don’t think he’s down on one knee in the going to want to retire. 11th as the eye pain
“The right eye will be fine became too much and he because there is a titanium will move up to lightmiddleweight plate in there and we will have if he returns. to put another one in the left. Brook said: “I remember Iron Man is coming.” the surgeon saying if I had
It takes months of recovery gone another round against after surgery and Brook Golovkin, I could have been admitted his eye was not as blinded. I had that going alert until he was deep into through my mind in the 11th. camp preparing for Spence. “I knew I couldn’t see and I
He will also have to be knew he was a very good sharp cleared by the British Boxing shooter. I knew it could have Board of Control after two been fatal, with some of the serious eye injuries in backto-back shots he was chucking. fights. “I went to one knee and tried
Brook was arguably ahead to get my eye to come back but until his eye swelled up in the it wasn’t happening. But I will seventh and southpaw Spence be back stronger and better.”