“He’s only faced one decent opponent in his whole career, so he has no room to talk. It seems to me that he’s just calling me out for that one big payday. If he keeps going on like this, that one big payday fight for him will never happen because at the end of the day, he’s just trying to win fans over by mentioning my name when he knows that I can’t fight then because of Ramadan. And he’s putting down my opponents, who are still better opponents than his opponents, like Jo Jo Dan, who should be called No No Dan, to be honest with you, because end of day, he’s not done anything in his career,” stated fired up former world champion Amir Khan, who had a lot to say about British rival and Kell Brook. Khan has taken offense to recent comments made by both Brook and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, and he didn’t hold back on his own opinion of the current IBF welterweight champion. Check out what he had to say during a recent conversation with FightHype.com.
AMIR KHAN ON KELL BROOK:
Like I said, this Algieri fight, if it happens, it’s making me a lot of money; money that Kell Brook’s not seen. That’s why he’s probably dying. Amir’s making millions when he’s not even seen his first million. There’s classes in boxing. There’s fighters in boxing who are the A-class fighters, the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Mayweather, who talk about and mention and say they know who Amir Khan is. When it comes to Kell Brook, who knows Kell Brook in America? Which fighter, apart from Shawn Porter, knows Kell Brook? Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao don’t know who Kell Brook is, so I don’t know what he’s going on about trying to say he’s a big name. I mean, he’s only got a title, but nowadays, what do titles mean? Let him have that IBF title and still complain that I’m avoiding him because end of day, that’s one thing I can say; I’m not avoiding him. The reason he wants to fight me is because before he loses the IBF title to a half decent opponent, not a decent, but a half decent opponent, he thinks, “Let’s cash in by fighting Amir Khan. Even if we get beat by him, we still make a lot of money.” The main thing is he believes that he’s only got that one chance. If he fights a decent opponent, he’s going to get beat, he’s going to lose that title, and that fight is going to disappear for him and never happen. So he wants to make that fight with me happen before he loses that title.
Now, I heard he was offered a fight with Bradley and Maidana, and he refused both of them. Why could he not go and fight them guys? Why do I have to take the hard route fighting all the top guys and then there’s Kell Brook fighting all these C-class opponents and then calling me out. I mean, the only one fight he had against a decent opponent was Shawn Porter and that was a 50/50 fight that could have gone either way. Kell Brook’s going on like he’s the next guy to fight Mayweather when he’s not even a big ticket seller. He might be big in his own backyard in Sheffield, but other than Sheffield, no one knows him. The way he’s tried to come across to the U.S. public is like he’s a super big name in the U.K. He’s not a big name in the U.K. That’s the honest truth. I mean, look, U.K. fans love boxing. They’re going to go to boxing shows regardless, but Kell is not the big name that he is saying he is. I can’t believe he’s thinking he’s as big as me in the U.K. He’s fooling himself, or his promoter Eddie Hearn is fooling him by saying all this to him.
Look, do I need the fight against Kell Brook? I make a lot of money regardless if I fight Kell Brook. I will make a lot of money in this sport and I’ve made a lot of money in this sport of boxing. Kell Brook needs me to make that big money. Without me, he’ll never make that big money unless he goes out and fights the top guys like Pacquiao, Mayweather, and Marquez, but I can’t see him fighting those guys because he’s always scared to get beat by them and lose his title. The only thing that makes Kell Brook a name is his title. Other than that, he was never a name and never will be. I get big paydays in all my fights. There’s a difference between being a superstar and being…he’s not even a star. He’s just a fighter; just an average fighter with a title that kind of gives him a little bit of credibility. Other than that, he’s nothing.
