But he insists, after a gruelling camp, he can still burn off a few more pounds and become a two-time champ down at his old 10st 7lb division. Tyson Fury famously melted 10st off his 6ft 9in frame to complete his boxing comeback in but Brook is a whole foot shorter so would have found the slog even harder.
The father of two has been chasing fights with old enemy Amir Khan as well as champions Manny Pacquiao and Terrence Crawford and he is eager for rematch revenge over Errol Spence, who shattered his cheekbone in A second world title will be a fairytale ending for Brook, whose life has resembled a gory horror movie in the past.
He sees it as too much of a risk. Even if he loses he can say that big weight difference was the factor. But now I think he could do well. I still think Canelo wins. The hype implies the British rivals hate each other — but such venom is rarely true of fighters.
If he does — fantastic. But when it comes to me and him, in this country, I want to destroy him. I have interviewed Brook once before when he used our conversation to address for the first time in public that, as a mixed-race man, he has white parents, Julie and Terry.
Many people had assumed he was adopted but Brook explained that his mother had been only 20 when she gave birth. Fourteen months later his mother met Terry and Kell found a new dad. It helped people understand me. Now, Lindsey, me and our two girls live in the best area of Sheffield.
Our oldest daughter [aged four] is so far ahead of where Lindsey and I were as kids. We want the best for the girls. The best areas, the best schools. I always said I want to live there one day. I do now — but I deserve it. I suffer in the gym every day. Brook grins as he gestures to his bruised face and imagines the riches of a fight against Khan.
One of those even better houses with the big gates opening up, the long drive, the even bigger mansion. Donald McRae. Reuse this content. He had performed bravely when moving up two weight divisions to challenge the formidable Gennady Golovkin at middleweight in September Brook was finally saved by Dominic Ingle in his corner in the fifth round after a brutal battle left him with a broken right eye socket.
His surgeon warned he would have risked blindness had he fought on. The trouble intensified against the gifted Spence eight months later.
The loss of his welterweight world title was matched by devastating accusations that he surrendered. Tony Bellew and Chris Eubank Jr, both courageous boxers, were among the accusers.
Brook winces. I was seriously injured. Life became too much for Brook but, feeling strong again, he can now address his depression. All the hangers-on had vanished. When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression.
It was just a vicious circle — drinking, not caring about myself — and it gave me a bad low. Did his partner Lindsey and their two daughters notice a change on the day he realised he needed to haul himself out of trouble?
Brook pauses when I ask if Lindsey and his parents wanted him to stop boxing? I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. I started to love boxing again.
I lost my world title to Spence at home and it was hard. But against Golovkin I was feeling good letting my shots go. Until the eye went it was looking great.
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