'I’ve had a long chat with my family and my parents, and it’s over for me. I’ll never box again.'
Kell Brook has announced that he’s now retired from boxing at the age of 36.
The former IBF welterweight champion finally settled his bitter rivalry with Amir Khan by stopping himBrook told the“It’s a little emotional to be actually saying this out loud.“Truth is, boxing is a very very tough, dangerous sport, one in which you can be legally killed in the ring, and I’ve finished now with all my faculties intact.”Brook continued: “I needed the Khan fight, I needed to settle the grudge, the feud.
“There is no dark feeling left in me now, I think when you have been in the ring with someone it passes, it leaves you.“But I respect him after the fight. He showed real heart in there.”Looking back on his career, Brook said: “It was my dream since I started boxing at the age of nine to be a world champion. It was a special night.
“I’ve been in the ring with Gennady Golovkin, Errol Spence, Terence Crawford, and I finally got my fight with Amir Khan.“I’m one of the lucky boxers who has earned enough not to have to work, but I am going to give something back again, and I’d like to train or manage young fighters. “I’d just like to be remembered as a fighter who would go in with anyone, feared no one, and who gave the fans what they wanted.”
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