{"id":853571,"date":"2026-08-11T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853571\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:02:13","slug":"kell-brook-announces-boxing-comeback-at-40-chris-eubank-jr-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853571\/","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook Announces Boxing Comeback at 40, Chris Eubank Jr. Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786410133_601_0x0.jpg\" alt=\"Natasha Jonas v Mikaela Mayer - Press Conference - Liverpool\" data-height=\"882\" data-width=\"1324\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The IBF World Welterweight Championship belt during a press conference at the Rum Warehouse, Titantic Hotel, Stanley Dock, Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday January 18, 2024. (Photo by Peter Byrne\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook announced his plans for a return to the boxing ring on Monday. Brook, 40, who last fought in February 2022 as he stopped long-time rival Amir Khan, is expected to be facing fellow British boxing legend Chris Eubank Jr. Here\u2019s everything we know about Brook\u2019s comeback and why Eubank Jr. is believed to be his opponent. <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brianmazique\/#205ec73f3c8c\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brianmazique\/#205ec73f3c8c\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Let\u2019s talk boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Let\u2019s talk boxing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kell Brook Key Facts<\/p>\n<p>Kell Brook before his fight against Amir Khan, at the AO Arena, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday February 19, 2022. (Photo by Nick Potts\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>PA Images via Getty ImagesRecord: 40-3, 28 KOsAge: 40Last fight: February 2022, sixth-round stoppage of Amir KhanTime out: More than four yearsComeback weight: Middleweight or super middleweight, confirmed by BrookExpected opponent: Chris Eubank Jr., not confirmedTitle reign: IBF welterweight, won from Shawn Porter in 2014Target: A fight before the end of this year<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">While Brook is 40 and hasn&#8217;t fought in more than four years, it is easy to forget \u2014 especially for American fight fans \u2014 just how good the Special One was during his prime. Brook&#8217;s career record stands at 40-3 with 28 wins by KO. The three losses in his career came against arguably the best fighters of his era Errol Spence Jr., Terence Crawford and Gennady Golovkin in an ill-advised attempt to move up to middleweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Brook confirmed to <a class=\"underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/kell-brook-40-confirms-comeback-chris-eubank-jnr-teased-as-opponent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/kell-brook-40-confirms-comeback-chris-eubank-jnr-teased-as-opponent\" aria-label=\"BoxingScene\">BoxingScene<\/a> that the comeback will happen at middleweight or super middleweight \u2014 the same territory that produced the Golovkin stoppage. Asked directly whether Eubank is the opponent, he said it could be and that an announcement is coming soon. He also said he is training seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">All three of Brook&#8217;s losses came by way of stoppage and he already seemed to have had the perfect swan song with his win over Khan. Perhaps the combination of the itch to return and the bag attached to the comeback were too much to ignore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">This is not the first comeback he has lined up. Brook was set to face Eisa Al Dah in Dubai in a bout raising money for the Ricky Hatton Foundation, but the event was postponed and never rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Kell Brook\u2019s 3 Career Losses<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\">Per <a class=\"underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/kell-brook-40-confirms-comeback-chris-eubank-jnr-teased-as-opponent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/kell-brook-40-confirms-comeback-chris-eubank-jnr-teased-as-opponent\" aria-label=\"BoxingScene\">BoxingScene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Errol Spence Jr. \u2014 TKO, round 11, 2017, IBF welterweight titleGennady Golovkin \u2014 TKO, round 5, 2016, at middleweightTerence Crawford \u2014 TKO, round 4, 2020, WBO welterweight titleMore Boxing Coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IBF World Welterweight Championship belt during a press conference at the Rum Warehouse, Titantic Hotel, Stanley Dock,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[34482,703,49,48,33854,69218,167357,296811,296815,296812,296814,296816,296813,82],"class_list":["post-853571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-amir-khan","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-eubank-jr","tag-ibf","tag-kell-brook","tag-kell-brook-announces-his-comeback-to-boxing","tag-kell-brook-chris-eubank-jr","tag-kell-brook-comeback","tag-kell-brook-next-fight","tag-kell-brook-record","tag-kell-brook-return","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}