{"id":678305,"date":"2026-07-07T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678305\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:19:08","slug":"kell-brook-names-the-one-fight-he-has-regrets-over-it-still-haunts-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678305\/","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook names the one fight he has regrets over: “It still haunts me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kell Brook<\/a> firmly believes that, under less torturous circumstances, he would have ended his career with one fewer defeat.<\/p>\n

The former world champion claimed his IBF welterweight title in 2014, dethroning Shawn Porter with a majority decision victory on away soil.<\/p>\n

After making three successful title defences, the Sheffield man then stepped up to middleweight for an audacious shot at Gennady Golovkin\u2019s unified crown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To his credit, Brook gave a strong account of himself in the early rounds, before ultimately suffering a fractured eye socket and getting pulled out by his corner in round five.<\/p>\n

It was then around eight months later, in 2017, that the skilful technician moved back down to 147lbs for a mandated title defence against Errol Spence Jr.<\/p>\n

By his own admission, this was far from the most sensible option for Brook, given the demanding nature of his training camp following an unsuccessful excursion to 160lbs.<\/p>\n

Yet \u2018Special K\u2019 nonetheless rolled the dice against Spence, who was down on the scorecards but scored an 11th-round finish after Brook suffered another fractured eye socket<\/a>, this time on his left side.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on their showdown at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, Brook tells Boxing King Media<\/a> that he is still haunted by the drastic weight-cut he was compelled to endure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the fight that really haunts me the most. I was less than 30% in that fight. Fighting Golovkin the fight before \u2013 ballooning up in weight, going up to middleweight \u2026 I could go on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I would\u2019ve beat [Spence at my best]. I was doing well even [at below 30%]. That fight was just all about making weight. It was so tough. The food was next to nothing. It was just atrocious, but that\u2019s what happened in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

After suffering a third defeat, this time via a fourth-round stoppage against Terence Crawford in 2020, Brook ended his career with a sixth-round finish over Amir Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kell Brook firmly believes that, under less torturous circumstances, he would have ended his career with one fewer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678305","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=678305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}