Brook claimed the centre of the ring early as you would expect but N’dou was throwing bombs trying to break Brook’s stride, Brook’s head movement was good and swiftly got his head out of the way before it was taken off by the swinging left hand of N’dou. Lively starts to the fight on what was the start of another remember night in British Boxing with both fighters trying to get on top. Brook however was a different class and having not been in the ring for 6 months failed to show any sign of ring rust.
A truly classy and professional performance by brook who was taken past 7 rounds for the first time in what was his 24th Professional fight. You may have read articles or papers that claim Brook will never be a top world champion and needs to fight the top fighters to prove himself after N’dou was dubbed a push over but I feel as the boxing world wake up this morning the first name they will hear is Kell Brook.
Not to be entirely out done N’dou caught Brook with some good right hands and kell’s chin proved to be something special as Brook was unfazed. In the later rounds one expected Brook to start fading and N’dou to show why he has never been stopped but brook went on strong and barely broke a sweat throughout the entire fight. Full credit to N’dou for keeping his record but other than the 1 round I gave him the fight was hugely one sided and N’dou was hurt on several occasions and looked very much like it was only a matter of time before Brook got a stoppage win.
The referee had a busy last round as Lovemore spent the best part of 2:30 minutes of the round holding on for dear life and looked to his corner to say “how much more?”. It may have been a little unfair had N’dou been pulled out as he put up a good fight with a warriors spirit. Kell Brook looked fresh at the end and a valuable 12 rounds under his belt suggest he is not too far away from the world stage. I know Brook would say give me a shot now but patience is a virtue and maybe two more tough fights will silence the critics and surely the top fighters have one eye on Brooks’ progress.
Brook Said after the fight
“It’s a learning curve in my career, my first 12-round fight. Maybe I held back a bit and there were some things I did wrong, but that’s all learnt now.”“I maybe said I’d stop him to get people interested, but at the back of my mind I knew it would be a 12-round fight,”.
So what next? Well IBF champion Dejan Zavec at 35 years old would be a stern test for brook and the powerful Vyacheslav Senchenko WBA champion may well be interested in a fight with Brook but is Special Kell ready to make that step?. There was really no doubt that Brook would win last night and I would love to see Brook go right to the top but I’m old fashioned, I’d like to see Kell go for Daniele Petrucci or Leonard Bundi who also fought last night in a technical draw for the vacant European title. Although the likelihood is a rematch will take place. There is of course Paul Mallignaggi and Andre Berto sitting nicely in the top 10 world rankings and either would be a great scalp for Brook.
Either way I’m sure Kell Brook will not find any trouble in finding an opponent for his next fight and knowing Matchroom it is going to be huge. Eddie Hearn has said this morning he expects Special Kell to be back in action late September or Early October.
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