Kell Brook Hopeful Amir Khan Faces Hefty Fine For Failed Drug Test
Kell Brook has taken a shot at his longtime rival Amir Khan after he failed a drug test.
Brook and Khan fought back in February of 2022 with Brook winning sixth-round TKO. After the fight, Khan announced his retirement from boxing but just recently, it was revealed by the United Kingdom Anti-Doping that he tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug. With that, Khan was suspended for two years, but Khan is retired so now Brook is hoping Khan faces a fine as the suspension means nothing.
“Just ‘cause he’s retired doesn’t mean that I’m out of the game,” Brook told iFL TV (h/t BoxingScene). “At the end of the day, he was cheating. [Khan is] going to have to pay a hefty fine so that it’s a thing where fighters shouldn’t even think about doing. “Of course, he should be paying for this. At the end of the day, as much as this is bad publicity for him, he needs to pay financially. He needs to let everyone out there you can’t just fight and then get caught and you’re retired that there is no punishment. Of course, he should.”
Since the ruling came out, Amir Khan denied knowingly taking any performance-enhancing drug but Kell Brook doesn’t think that is true.
“It’s the same thing with anybody that’s been caught: they didn’t know, it was this, it was that,” Brook said. “But at the end of the day it was in you,” Brook said. “You got in that fight with a drug to enhance you and hurt me in a sport where legally you can get killed in. It’s not about, ‘you didn’t know.’ It’s in your system. You know exactly [that] it’s in your system. You got in there with bad intentions to hurt me bad, to win the fight at all cost, which has come back and bit him in the ass bad.”
For now, Kell Brook says Amir Khan is going to have to live knowing he failed a drug test. Brook also believes it’s fair for fans to wonder the legitimacy of his entire career now.
“He’s going to have to live with that,” Brook concluded. “People are going to think how long has he been on these drugs. Of course it’s going to tarnish his career. Imagine if he wasn’t on them drug, he would’ve gone out probably in the first round (of our fight). He was the one that was saying drug test me,” Brook added. “I’ve lost count how many times I was drug tested in that fight. And all along it were him that were doing the cheating in there. It’s a f—— joke.”
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