Kell Brook-Errol Spence likely for May 27 or June 3

Kell Brook

KELL BROOK’S IBF welterweight title fight against elite American prospect Errol Spence could land on May 27 or June 3 in Sheffield.

Brook moved up to middleweight to fight Kazakh terror Gennady Golovkin last September. Kell has now had to recover from a fractured eye socket and shed weight to return to 147lbs and his world title. Spence has impressed as heโ€™s risen through the ranks over the course his early professional career and stands to become a big star in the US.

Brookโ€™s promoter Eddie Hearn will stage the fight in his Sheffield home town. โ€œWeโ€™ve put a request in to the council for May 27 or June 3 at Bramall Lane [a football stadium] for Brook-Spence. Just waiting for the capacity to be approved,โ€ Hearn said.

It will be a pay-per-view show, with details on the undercard to come. โ€œThe good thing about pay-per-view, it gives me the opportunity to do those other big fights. Because you sort of run out of dates after a while. Each individual fight on a pay-per-view card is a headline. So for instance Eggington against Malignaggi, a great headline in Birmingham but weโ€™ve able to do it [on the Haye-Bellew show] so weโ€™re able to go again on May 13,โ€ Hearn said. โ€œIt enables me to make two or three other big fights that I wouldnโ€™t have had the dates to get it on. It enables my stable to grow with big fights.โ€

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