Interview with boxer Kell Brook

Transcript

00:00 Right then Kel, lovely to have you here mate. How you doing? You alright?

00:05 Good, good. Okay, so you keep getting linked with Active Fighters.

00:12 What would be your primary for you to come back to fighting two years after retirement?

00:17 What's your primary aim to come back after two years?

00:20 Primary aim, yeah. What is the reasons for you wanting to come back after two years if you're going to come back?

00:26 Because you keep getting linked with Active Fighters. We keep hearing little snippets here, there and everywhere.

00:31 For you to come back, if you're going to come back.

00:34 It's the challenge. The challenge. People saying that I can't do this and I like to prove them wrong to do it.

00:41 I like that, I like that. It's the challenge. Right then, what is in your heart? What is your heart saying?

00:49 That's what my heart is saying. It's in me, it's in my blood. I've done it all my life. Boxing is my life.

00:57 It's hard to close the door on it. It is hard to close the door on it.

01:02 When you see these fighters and you think, I can beat all these guys.

01:07 We know you can, you're very talented. You've already just answered the next question but I'm going to ask it.

01:13 Is it just about the money?

01:15 It's not about the money. I've got enough money. It's about the challenge. It's about seeing what I've got left.

01:22 I believe that I've still got it all left. I believe that me, 100%, I can beat all the fighters what you name today.

01:33 Brilliant. And there's nothing else better to do, is there?

01:36 There's nothing better to do than training hard and then recovering and feeling good about yourself.

01:43 Love it, love it. Alright then.

01:47 Come out of retirement, do you think you can beat him and make another boxing comeback that will be remembered?

01:54 Yeah, I do. I think that having two years off, a bit like when Leonard beat Agla.

02:02 I think that people will think, I don't think he's got it anymore.

02:06 I think that two years off and I'll go in and show the masterclass and show that I'm still professional.

02:13 Brown and fly.

02:15 Okay, so when you look back at your career, is there anything that you regret?

02:23 As you've had so many, many great eyes in boxing, is there anything you look back on and you think, I regret not doing this?

02:31 You probably say sometimes the loss of taking Golovkin 5-0.

02:36 You know when you look back, I still boxed Golovkin when he was at his prime.

02:41 It's always about, before you hang the gloves up, to seeing how good you really are.

02:46 I got in with the best. I couldn't show that now, but I got in with the very best at that time in my career.

02:52 So I never shied away from a fight.

02:56 Okay, was you in a good place when you got to Tennis Crawford?

03:02 I wasn't in the best place because it was a full lockdown.

03:06 We couldn't get there. We couldn't get to certain places.

03:09 Training was a bit awkward and hard, but not making any excuses.

03:14 He was an unbelievable top pound for pound. He put him up number one.

03:17 He's like a surgeon. He's very sharp. He's very clever.