Kell Brook v Brandon rios is next

This'll be a right tear-up. If it's up North then I'm going.

 

it needs to be somebody ranked in the top 15 of the IBF none of the above are mentioned except guerrero and alexander and it wont be any of them too dangerous
2. Dan Ion
3. Leonard Bundu
4. Timothy Bradley
5. Frankie Gavin
6. Devon Alexander
7. Kevin Bizier
8. Robert Guerrero
9. Luis Abregu
10. Diego Chaves
11. Antonin Decairie
12. Fredrick Lawson
13. Vyacheslv Senchenko
14. Yoshihiro Kamegai
15. Ray Robinson

 

Don't be surprised to see those IBF rankings change if necessary.

 

Perfect fight for Brook he'd be the first guy to stop Rios

 

If I had a free bet on who it would be I would go for Decarie, non puncher, not that great but ranked high enough to allow the fight to happen, can be hurt, gives Brook the welcome home he and Eddie want with a ko around the 4th/5th round.

Equally I would not be surprised to see a less than stellar offer go in for Gavin to step in the ring with Brook, just so they can say they made the offer and it was turned down.

 

I would like Bundu to get his crack. I would expect Kell Brook to outbox him but I feel like Bundu deserves it.

 

make it happen

 

Yeah I'd like to see Brook v Bundu as well - but Hearn didn't seem to keen in his recent iFL interview as American TV will be interested and Bundu doesn't appeal..

 

Rios would be relatively easy fight and a bigish name, come forward slow plodder with average power at welter but a granite chin. I think brook would batter him round after round till corner stops it. Could be a fight where rios takes too much punishment.
Id like to see bundu get a shot too
Kahe to beat a good fighter aswell and kell vs khan next year

 

Brandon rios = huge money he got about $1 million dollars for his last fight theres no way eddie hearn will pay that sort of money for rios to come over here as much as i would love for it to happen it aint gonna happen, itll be some low level fighter

 

I actually don't like this fight for Kell. Rios has a good chin, puts on a lot of pressure and is good on the inside. I don't think Brook will find it as easy to stop Rios beating him up on the inside as he did with Porter. Risky fight. Could be another ugly fight too. I'd put Kell in with someone who is not an inside fighter, who Kell can out-box and who doesn't have a chin like Rios.

 

I doubt he'd fight Thurman tbh it very possible he would get beat and the Khan fight wouldn't be as big

 

Abregu would be affordable and very credible

 

Hope Hearn puts his hand in his pocket for this one. Well known name over here and stateside, competitive fight to a degree and Brook will really impress if he can force a stoppage. Another thing that is key is experience. Outside of Porter and the first Jones fight, which was a blip, Brook has never been challenged. If he's going to go on and beat the top dogs and even Khan, he needs fights like this to prepare him.

 

Had no idea Jo Jo Dan was rated 2nd by IBF.
That would be an easy fight for Brook, and one Hearn could sell based on his ranking. Hope it will be a decent name though!