{"id":50163,"date":"2015-01-22T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50163"},"modified":"2015-01-22T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:50:28","slug":"kell-brook-first-title-defense-against-jo-jo-dan-breaking-british-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50163","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook First Title Defense Against Jo Jo Dan &#8211; Breaking British Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50163\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50163\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50164 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kell-Brook-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Kell Brook\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his IBF Welterweight World title against #1 mandatory challenger Jo Jo Dan on March 28 at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England. Brook ripped the belt away from Shawn Porter in Los Angeles in August with a career-best performance and will make his hotly anticipated first defense. \u201cI feel so emotional right now,\u201d said Brook. \u201cI laid in the hospital thinking I might not walk again \u2013 now I am defending my belt at home. I am looking to get my mandatory out the way and get the big fights. He has worked hard to get his shot and he\u2019ll give it his all. I am not looking past him, I was a mandatory too like he is. But I am going to work even harder to keep the belt that I earned.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also on the card, super bantamweight Gaviv McDonnell challenges Oleksander Yegorov for the vacant European title and middleweight Adam Etches defends his IBF International belt against Sergey Khomitsky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook will defend his IBF Welterweight World title against #1 mandatory challenger Jo Jo Dan on March 28 at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England. Brook ripped the belt away from Shawn Porter in Los Angeles in August with a career-best performance and will make his hotly anticipated first defense. \u201cI [&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":[11883],"class_list":["post-50163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-kell-brook-first-title-defense-against-jo-jo-dan-breaking-british-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163","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=50163"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}