Kell Brook prepares for another surgery on broken eye socket

By Daily Sports on June 8, 2017

After undergoing a right eye surgery to fix an eye socket, following his fight last September, Kell Brook will be undoing another eye surgery.

This time, the former IBF welterweight champion will be aiming to repair his broken left eye socket that he sustained in his 11th round TKO loss to American Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) on May 27 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England.

Brook suffered a fractured left orbital bone in the loss and will be out of the ring for a prolonged period of time recovering from the surgery.

The injury is a double whammy for the career of Brook, who suffered a broken right eye socket injury in his loss last year to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.

Brook, 31, voluntarily took a knee in rounds 10 and 11 in what appeared to be moves by him to escape heavy bombardment of punches he was taking from the 27-year-old Spence.

Brook wasn’t getting hit with head shots, however. Spence was putting most of his attention to throwing body punches that he would wind up on. Brook seemed to be in distress more from the continued body attack from Spence than he was from his eye injury.
 
Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle said after the fight that Spence’s body shots weren’t giving him problems, and that they had trained to take hard shots to the midsection.

Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he’ll be moving up to 154 once he recovers from his surgery and resumes his boxing career. Hearn wants Brook to fight Amir Khan at junior middleweight. If they can’t get that fight, then they’ll look to get a title shot against one of the champions.

“Kell Brook, I was kind of disappointed by some of the scorecards,” said Hearn to IFL TV. “I think one had Spence 5 up, another 3 rounds up. We had him 1 round up, about to go way up after round 11. But Kell was not going to win the fight from there. When you can’t see and have double vision, you know the injury can also take your sight away for life,” Hearn said.

*Photo shows Brook right eye injury.

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 8, 2017


 

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