Kell Brook insists Amir Khan has tried and didn't get into his head by enlisting the companies of Terence Crawford and his crew – insisting even they know the Bolton fighter has ‘no coronary heart left’.
After a bitter and private rivalry that has brewed for over a decade, Brook and Khan will lastly meet within the ring on Saturday in Manchester to settle their dangerous blood.
In preparation for the bout, Khan took his coaching camp to excessive altitude in Colorado, the place he linked up with American coach Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre. Amongst McIntyre’s different fighters is WBO welterweight king Crawford, who has additionally been placing work in with the Briton to assist whip him into form.
Each Brook and Khan have historical past with Crawford, with the previous struggling a knockout defeat to him in November 2020 – his final struggle up to now.
Previous to that, Khan tried to dethrone the undefeated American in April 2019 however was pulled out of the competition after a low blow.
Each Crawford and McIntyre accused Khan of quitting that night time, with the champion adamant the Bolton fighter was ‘on the lookout for a means out’. Three years on, Brook has questioned the logic of enlisting the boys who have been so fast to mock his rival.
‘I simply suppose it's a little factor the place he [Khan] thinks he's stepping into my head in some way. That Terence was the final man to beat me,’ Brook instructed
‘However you’ve received to consider the man who was coaching him [McIntrye], he and Crawford have been the identical guys calling him a quitter that night time.
‘So that they know he hasn’t received the very best coronary heart. They have been slagging him off after that struggle. And now he’s working with him.
‘He [McIntyre] has by no means labored with Amir earlier than both. He doesn’t know practice him, push him or when to let him have a break day. I simply smile to myself, it’s all irrelevant. The underside line is he’s turning up and getting knocked out.’
Whereas Khan has taken new measures to equip him for a struggle that would drive the loser to stroll away from boxing for good, it has been enterprise as traditional for Brook.
The Sheffield fighter has been working with long-term coach Dominic Ingle having not too long ago returned from his common warm-weather coaching camp in Fuerteventura the place he spent weeks locked away.
‘I haven’t watched what Amir’s doing, if he making an attempt issues he hasn’t performed earlier than that’s all the way down to him,’ Brook mentioned.
‘However it’s a younger man’s recreation actually. All I do know is how I’ve ready realizing that is how we get outcomes. Out in Fuerteventura, the identical time zones as a substitute of getting my physique clock in all places, doing issues in powerful situations.
‘If that’s how he likes it, truthful sufficient. Everybody has their very own factor. I've mine.’
Brook secured one of many best ever away wins for a British fighter when he went to the US to take the IBF title from Shawn Porter in 2014.
Whereas his and Khan’s paths wouldn’t cross till quite a lot of years later, he went onto struggle Gennady Golovkin after bravely stepping up two weights to problem the damaging Kazakh earlier than his battle with Errol Spence Jr, who nonetheless holds the IBF title he took from Brook that night time.
His battle with Khan comes with each now not on the peak of their powers, however Brook insists it holds simply as a lot resonance as his different large nights.
‘I really feel it would proper up there with the very best with the Porter win, these large nights with Spence and Golovkin,’ Brook mentioned.
‘Simply due to the eye it's getting. It's a struggle that ought to have occurred years in the past. We've received it now so it's in fact proper up there. This struggle is the one I’ll be remembered for.’
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