{"id":733475,"date":"2026-08-10T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733475\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:38:08","slug":"im-coming-back-former-world-champion-who-beat-amir-khan-announces-return-for-massive-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733475\/","title":{"rendered":"“I\u2019m coming back”: Former world champion who beat Amir Khan announces return for ‘massive fight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last fighter to step into the ring with Amir Khan<\/a> is set to make a return to the sport.<\/p>\n

Former world champion Kell Brook is the man in question, who is this time targeting a \u201cmassive\u201d professional fight in the UK.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old was set to stage his comeback earlier this year, taking on Eisa Al Dah in a bid to raise money for the Ricky Hatton Foundation.<\/a><\/p>\n

Due to conflict in the Middle East, however, their Dubai event was ultimately postponed and supposedly relocated to Manchester, albeit with no mention of a specific date.<\/p>\n

This would have been Brook\u2019s first outing since scoring a sixth-round stoppage over Khan<\/a>, his long-time domestic rival, in 2022.<\/p>\n

Prior to that meeting with Khan, the Sheffield man appeared much further removed from his prime against Terence Crawford, who stopped him in round four of their 2020 welterweight encounter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This version of Brook was, of course, a far cry from the one that dethroned Shawn Porter with an IBF title-winning performance on away soil in 2014.<\/p>\n

But still, \u2018Special K\u2019 is determined to rediscover his old magic after claiming to have renewed his licence with the British Boxing Board of Control.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Brook has told talkSPORT<\/a> that he should soon be involved in a \u201cmassive\u201d showdown, this time competing between 160 and 168lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming back! There is big news of a massive fight coming your way. Back in the professional ring, British Boxing Board of Control, coming out of retirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t give anyone a clue over the opponent, but we won\u2019t be waiting much longer. It\u2019ll happen this year; it\u2019s about done. I\u2019ll return at middleweight or super-middleweight, around them divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

While stopping short of naming an opponent, Brook has been linked with a domestic dustup against Chris Eubank Jr, who has not fought since his unanimous decision defeat to Conor Benn in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last fighter to step into the ring with Amir Khan is set to make a return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733475","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\/733475","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=733475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}