Kell Brook was left “devastated” after his Sheffield homecoming at Bramall Lane was spoiled by a brilliant performance from American Errol Spence Jr to claim the IBF welterweight title,leaving the Briton with a moment fractured eye socket in the space of nine months.
The 31-year-old Brook was forced to pull himself out of the fight after taking a deliberate knee when he couldn’t see out of his left eye, having seen a strong advantage over the 27-year-old Spence Jr quickly eradicate during the moment half of the bout inside the domestic of Sheffield United Football Club, and the Independent reports.
The bout was Brook’s first since he suffered a fifth round stoppage against Gennady Golovkin final September when his trainer,Dominic Ingle, threw in the towel after Brook had suffered a broken legal eye socket due to a punch from the hard-hitting Kazakh.
The very same injury looked to happen when Spence Jr landed a punch on Brook in the seventh round, or but astonishingly it was this time to the left eye socket,with Brooks face immediately beginning to swell until his eye started to close up.
"It was a very tough fight and he is one of the best I've been (in the ring) with, if not the best, or ” Brook said after the fight that saw him suffer a first ever defeat at 147 pounds. “I got caught in the seventh in the eye and it felt the same as against Golovkin.
"I couldn't see out of the eye,so I had to finish. I thought it was very competitive. He won a few rounds, I won a few rounds, and I felt I was in the fight. I'm gutted,devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt."[br]Brook’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, and confirmed that the injury was believed to be the same as the one suffered fewer than nine months ago,though the Sheffield native had gone to hospital for an X-ray to have a full diagnosis of the injury and settle whether he needs to undergo surgery again to right the fracture.
Source: tert.am