Kell Brook Will Also Win World Titles at 154 & 160 says Hearn

By Olly Campbell - 09/25/2015 - Comments

Matchroom boxing’s Eddie Hearn – promoter of IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook – says that he can envision his fighter cleaning house at welterweight before moving up in pursuit of world titles at both 154 and 160.

Brook fights Argentina’s Diego Chaves on October 24th in Sheffield before supposedly then closing out his year in December on the big Anthony Joshua/Dillian Whyte bill from London’s O2, that it’s mooted will be the 3rd Matchroom/Sky PPV of 2015.

Such is Hearn’s belief in his champion that he has previously claimed that Brook can not only replace Floyd Mayweather as the P4P best in the sport, he can also move through weights in much the same elite fashion as all time greats like Thomas Hearns and Ray Leonard did 30 years ago.

“I can see him winning world titles at both light middleweight and middleweight and there are tempting fights to be made against men like Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez,” Hearn wrote in his column for the dailymail.co.uk.

“He is good enough to be a multi-weight world champion so the next couple of years should be very exciting,” he added.

If the “Special One” is to achieve anything even befitting the status of the aforementioned Leonard and Hearns, then a good start would be to return to America to seek out the big-money unification fights at welterweight with the likes of WBA (reg) champion Keith Thurman, or WBO boss Timothy Bradley.

Hearn is currently intent on building his fighter on PPV in the UK, although thus far it appears luring big names has proven extremely problematic – at least for the money that’s on offer, and it’s a cold hard fact that the mega-fights he claims to crave for his man are 90% US based affairs.

The fans, as well as Brook, still desire a clash with Amir Khan, who has again chosen to snub the Sheffield man to chase a fight with Manny Pacquiao for next year, remaining firm that Brook hasn’t fought big enough names – slightly hypocritical in the eyes of many when coming off of a life-or-death dust-up with Chris Algieri in May like Khan is.

Yet envisioning a future for Brook conquering the likes of Canelo and Puerto Rican modern great, Cotto, is futile – at whatever weight – if there is no desire to return to America and begin repeating performances like August 2014’s career best, title winning majority decision victory over Shawn Porter. Porter is said to be extremely keen on the rematch and has stated numerous times he is willing to travel to the UK, even taking a pay cut to do so.

It’s a wait and see game and more extremely big talk from Eddie Hearn, as we have seen often enough in the past with varying degrees of follow through. The question remains, will we see him come good with any of it for Brook in 2016 and 2017 as he says?

They are big words and extremely bold claims. Two years can be a very long time in boxing….

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