Britain's former light-welterweight world boxing champion Amir Khan wants to end years of failed negotiations and finally take on compatriot Kell Brook he told Sky Sports. The 2004 Olympic lightweight silver medalist announced this in the wake of Brook losing his IBF welterweight title to the impressive unbeaten American Errol Spence Junior at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane ground late Saturday.
Spence Jr - who has not looked back since losing in the 2012 Olympic quarter-finals - has been called the 'real deal' by American boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard and forced the referee to stop the fight in the 11th round after an absorbing no-holds barred contest. Khan, who held the WBA belt from 2009-12 and the IBF version in 2011, said he would like to fight Brook at welterweight provided the latter's left eye injury was not so severe he would have to hang up his gloves. "I'd like to fight him at 147," 30-year-old Khan told Sky Sports. "It depends on Kell's eye, and also the dates - there are a lot of pay-per-view fights on. "The fight between me and Kell Brook is a pay-per-view fight. I really believe that fight next summer would make sense.