Count WBA junior welterweigt champion Amir Khan among those not overly impressed with Kell Brook’s blood and guts victory over Carson Jones this past Saturday. Khan and Brook have become hometown rivals of sorts in recent years with Brook pressing him hard for a grudge match. Khan has continually dismissed him as unworthy and went as far earlier this year to accuse Brook of using cocaine.
Although Brook dug deep to push back Jones, Khan informed me that Brook still has much work to do before they’ll ever face off.
He needs to fight some big names. Maybe then the fight [between us] can happen. At the moment I’m fighting world-class fighters and campaigning in America while he’s been at home. In the future a fight could be big in America. I don’t think it makes any sense fighting him in American now because nobody knows him. When I beat him people would think ‘who’s this guy?’ I don’t think he’d sell over here either. Maybe in the future when he fights guys in America and recognized in the Top 10.
Brook appears to be doing just that by targeting Hector Saldivia in what will be a title eliminator for Randall Bailey’s newly won IBF welterweight title. Bailey is currently set to defend against Devon Alexander on September 8.
Should Brook get his IBF title shot and win, Khan might be enticed enough to make his welterweight debut a UK showdown.
Beats, Boxing and Mayhem 
dont think amirs in a position to criticize brook tbh… brooks doing better at his development stage then khan… brook ticked another box that we needed to see from him and thats heart and guts… he dominated jones for the first half of the fight, thought it was gonna be early night… im glad it turned into that kinda fight, done wonders for brook, although his nose might not think so lol
he admitted to taking a weekend off and not getting his diet spot on yet…
still, amirs lost his last fight, the doping think is irrelevant, he got schooled by lamont, his win over maidana, he just took a pasting and got the win, and ko but bredis lol
i belie brook will be a better fighters than kahn soon… hush your mout amir, dude thinks hes so much better then he is…