 The lives of Kell Brook and Amir Khan had been intertwined for almost 12 years before 'Special K' delivered on a career-long promise and gave his rival 'a right good hiding'. Brook capped a wonderful career in boxing by dominating Khan in February 2022 in Manchester, riding off into the sunset and retiring three months later. In April this year, their fight was under the spotlight again after Khan was handed a two-year ban from all sport after testing positive for banned substance ostarine following that grudge match. Khan had himself retired from the sport by that point but his reputation was on the line and was adamant he had not intentionally taken any banned substance. Brook was understandably furious in the immediate aftermath, admitting the revelation 'made him sick'. Four months on from the scandal, Brook is more sympathetic and says he now believes his old foe never intentionally set out to cheat against him. 'It is still a weird situation for me,' Brook told Metro.co.uk via FreeBets Ireland. 'If the fight result were different, there would be a lot more attention around it, if he had given me the beating. Because then you start looking at things differently. 'It is a sport where you can legally get killed. You are walking into the ring with loaded guns in your hands, you can kill a man. But I do believe he didn't know anything about it. I do believe what he is saying is true. 'He got tested like I got tested a lot of times in the build-up to that fight. Listening to people who know a little bit more about that kind of thing, it just doesn't make sense that he would do that intentionally. Khan strongly denied intentionally taking any banned substance (Picture: Getty) 'There has always been respect from my side towards Amir, he's done unbelievable in this game. What used to upset me at the time, I guess, was I always knew I had his number but it was him stopping it and making me look like the m){kind=link}
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The lives of Kell Brook and Amir Khan had been intertwined for almost 12 years before ‘Special K’ delivered on a career-long promise and gave his rival ‘a right good hiding’.
Brook capped a wonderful career in boxing by dominating Khan in February 2022 in Manchester, riding off into the sunset and retiring three months later. In April this year, their fight was under the spotlight again after Khan was handed a two-year ban from all sport after testing positive for banned substance ostarine following that grudge match.
Khan had himself retired from the sport by that point but his reputation was on the line and was adamant he had not intentionally taken any banned substance. Brook was understandably furious in the immediate aftermath, admitting the revelation ‘made him sick’.
Four months on from the scandal, Brook is more sympathetic and says he now believes his old foe never intentionally set out to cheat against him.