{"id":214401,"date":"2025-10-21T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:21:11","slug":"kell-brook-to-return-to-ring-in-tribute-to-ricky-hatton-in-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214401\/","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook to return to ring in tribute to Ricky Hatton in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kell Brook will fight for the first time in four years in February, at a show that will pay tribute to fellow former world champion Ricky Hatton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cd0724eg90ko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in September<\/a> aged 46, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz6g8jvdjxqo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his return to the ring<\/a> and was preparing to face UAE fighter Eisa Al Dah in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brook, 39, will now face Hatton&#8217;s planned opponent in Dubai on 13 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-world welterweight champion Brook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/61363855\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retired from boxing<\/a> in May 2022, three months after beating fellow Briton Amir Khan to settle a long-running feud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He ended his career with a record of 40 wins from 43 professional bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theagenda.com\/events\/destiny-in-the-desert\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">event&#8217;s promoters said, external<\/a> its &#8216;Destiny In The Desert&#8217; show &#8220;will feature tributes and honour the legendary Ricky Hatton whilst also supporting the newly formed Ricky Hatton Foundation&#8221;, which has been set up to help people experiencing mental health problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kell Brook will fight for the first time in four years in February, at a show that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-214401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}