Former world champion Kell Brook has vowed to wipe out unbeaten Conor Benn – if the two are ever able to get in the ring.
The two fighters were involved in a physical altercation last Saturday night, during the Chantelle Cameron vs. Katie Taylor event in Dublin.
Brook was in the middle of a ringside interview, when he was unexpectedly confronted by Benn. After a brief exchange of words, the two boxers were shoving each other and were quickly separated.
Brook has been out of the ring since February of 2022, when he knocked out career rival Amir Khan. The Sheffield boxer would later announced his retirement, but now he’s mulling the possibility of a ring return.
At the moment, Benn is under a provisional suspension – which prevents him from fighting in the UK and several other markets.
Last October, he was scheduled to face Chris Eubank Jr. in a catchweight clash, but the fight fell apart after Benn tested positive for a banned performance enhancer. It was later revealed that Benn tested positive for the same substance in a separate test.
If Benn is able to resolve his current issues with UKAD and the British Boxing Board of Control, Brook is very willing to face him.
“I’m having an interview and he bumped into me. He wanted to get a reaction and he got it,” Brook said to IFL TV. “We can do it wherever he wants to do it. I’ll put him straight to sleep, straight to kip little boy. That’s what will happen. He’s got a bigger fish to fry. He’s banned or whatever he has to deal with, I don’t even know.
“If he can get cleared and be able to fight under the British Boxing Board, of course, we could make that fight happen. I think people got juices flowing for that fight with me and him. It’s hard – I love the game and it gets the juices going, I feel it with Katie Taylor fighting and hearing the fans it is hard to walk away.
“Especially after the last performance, but there’s these kind of fights that will get me out of retirement like Conor Benn, Liam Smith, Eubank’s in the mix, Keith Thurman. It’s not just Conor Benn, if the fans want exciting fights then we’ll put certain names together and if I hear certain things from the people I need to hear from then you could get me out of retirement.
“I will hurt him, I will physically hurt him. What can I say? They’re the young kids coming through thinking they can test us? I’ve got many miles, I can pop, I can fight, I’ve got experience and I know my way around the ring. I’ve had 43 fights and I can do the job. I’ve only lost to the best in the world pound-for-pound, Golovkin at middleweight, Spence and Crawford. He’s been put down by a journeyman. He’s not boxed no-one. Chris Algieri? He couldn’t put his fist through an A4 piece of paper. I will hurt you.”