{"id":22128,"date":"2012-09-25T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:56:56","slug":"kell-brook-timothy-bradley-manny-pacquio-news-boxing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22128","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook, Timothy Bradley, Manny Pacquio News &#8211; Boxing UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22128\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6466 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"timbradleyheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/timbradleyheader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Kell Brook has revealed he was close to taking a fight with WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley but chose to take the mandatory route with the IBF. Brook takes on Hector Saldivia for the mandatory position for the IBF welterweight title at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on October 20, a route the Sheffield star and his promoter Eddie Hearn decided was the right move for the 25-year-old\u2019s career. Brook came through a gut check against Carson Jones in his last outing at the Motorpoint Arena in July, and he believes the mandatory route could lead to a mega fight in 2013 against the returning Ricky Hatton.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bradley fight was put in front of me but I believe the mandatory position in the IBF is the right move,\u201d said Brook, who is back in Sheffield after a two week training camp in Spain. \u201cEddie has worked hard to get me into this position and providing I beat Saldivia, I\u2019ll be fighting for a world title at the start of 2013 and it will be on my terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love that to be in Sheffield too and I know Eddie would do his best to get it here as it would be an amazing event. I will also be watching Ricky Hatton\u2019s comeback with great interest as a fight against him next year would be an absolute blockbuster for British boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I fought his brother Matthew you could see that the Hatton name still means a lot in boxing and we would fill a big stadium fighting for a World title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearn added: \u201cTop Rank contacted me in August and made us an offer for the Bradley fight. It was a nice ego boost for Kell to be offered a fight of such magnitude but we begun this journey with a goal of becoming a mandatory challenger and now we are just one win away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kell Brook has revealed he was close to taking a fight with WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley but chose to take the mandatory route with the IBF. Brook takes on Hector Saldivia for the mandatory position for the IBF welterweight title at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on October 20, a route the Sheffield star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3804,477,704],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-kell-brook","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-timothy-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}