Kell Brook speaks - Favors fight with Ricky Hatton instead of Timothy Bradley
 By SecondsOut, special to Doghouse Boxing (Sept 25, 2012) Doghouse Boxing
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By or provided from SecondsOut.com on Doghouse Boxing. Kell Brook has revealed he was close to taking a fight with WBO
welterweight champion Timothy Bradley but chose to take the mandatory
route with the IBF.
Brook takes on Hector Saldivia for the mandatory position for the IBF
welterweight title at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on October 20
live on Sky Sports, a route the Sheffield star and his promoter Eddie
Hearn decided was the right move for the 25 year old’s career.
Brook came through a gut check against Carson Jones in his last
outing at the Motorpoint Arena in July, and he believes the mandatory
route could lead to a mega fight in 2013 against the returning Ricky
Hatton.
“The Bradley fight was put in front of me but I believe the mandatory
position in the IBF is the right move,” said Brook, who is back in
Sheffield after a two week training camp in Spain. “Eddie has worked
hard to get me into this position and providing I beat Saldivia, I’ll be
fighting for a World title at the start of 2013 and it will be on my
terms.
“I would love that to be in Sheffield too and I know Eddie would do
his best to get it here as it would be an amazing event. I will also be
watching Ricky Hatton’s comeback with great interest as a fight against
him next year would be an absolute blockbuster for British boxing.
“When I fought his brother Matthew you could see that the Hatton name
still means a lot in boxing and we would fill a big stadium fighting
for a World title.”
Hearn added: “Top Rank contacted me in August and made us an offer
for the Bradley fight. It was a nice ego boost for Kell to be offered a
fight of such magnitude but we begun this journey with a goal of
becoming a mandatory challenger and now we are just one win away.”
Brook’s clash with Saldivia tops a great Sheffield bill with Jamie
McDonnell facing Vusi Malinga in an IBF bantamweight World title final
eliminator and Kenny Anderson taking on Robin Reid for the vacant
British super middleweight title.
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