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Kell Brook wants to prove to Amir Khan you CAN mix boxing and boozing after jibes over his ‘p***-ups’

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KELL BROOK wants to prove to bitter rival Amir Khan you can mix boxing and boozing — if you get the measures right.

Bolton’s teetotal star Khan has used the build-up to Saturday night’s Manchester showdown to accuse the Sheffield ace of hitting the sauce harder than his punchbags.

Kell Brook is aiming to prove you can mix boxing and boozingCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun
Amir Khan has made several jibes about his rival’s drinkingCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun

The former light-welterweight world champ and 2004 Olympic lightweight silver medallist claimed: “We know with Kell that he is one of these guys who can go off the rails after a fight, on a p***-up.

“He’ll go missing for a couple of weeks and put on a load of weight.”

Brook’s long-time trainer and mentor Dominic Ingle insists his down-to-earth charge is entitled to the odd session — just like Manchester icon Ricky Hatton, who remains adored for loving a pint with his pals.

But unlike the two-weight world champ, who stayed true to his roots with gallons of Guinness and games of darts down the local, Ingle hopes Brook’s occasional thirst does not end in disaster. 

Ingle said: “Kell does like to go out and have a drink with his old pals, he has done it for years.

“But almost all great fighters have a little bit of a twist to them — look at Ricky Hatton, who was well known for it.

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“When it came to his biggest fights of his career — against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr — that lifestyle probably did have an effect on his defeats, Ricky says it probably did.

“But Kell Brook, out of all the fighters I have trained over the years, he has a determination to put himself through it in camp — he never slacks off once he is in camp.

“Getting him switched on is  difficult but once he is switched on there is no stopping him.

“He is in fantastic shape and was in that same shape six weeks ago, he could not be like that if he was not training, resting, recovering, eating right, doing everything right. I don’t know what Amir Khan has been doing for the last six months — but I know everything Kell has.”

Khan has insisted the 35-year-old pair meet at the catchweight limit of 149lb and every pound over will carry a £100,000 penalty.

But Brook — who has battled to boil his 5ft 9in frame down to welter ever since he jumped up to middleweight to face Gennady Golovkin in 2016 — insisted Khan has made a huge mistake in giving him so long to trim down and save himself a fortune.

Former IBF world welterweight champ Brook said: “I have been waking up at 4am every day because I have so much adrenaline running through my body.

“Khan has made a big mistake by giving me seven months to make this weight.

“I have trained constantly so I am there with the weight, I could have made it a month ago. I missed my family and our whole Christmas to make sure everything went right and it has.”

The grudge showdown is 20 years in the making, after the two met as England schoolboys in a sparring session both claim to have enjoyed the better of.

But what started off as a sporting rivalry has, at times, descended into an ugly spat and Brook admits he wants to be the man to end Khan’s glittering career.

He added: “We have known each other since we were 15 years old, all the way through.

“It’s just been a long time coming but we’re here, I’m excited.

“It’s all going to get settled after all the talk over all the years of him saying he would beat me. Everyone is going to tune in and see who the winner is and it is going to be me.

“I’ll be happy that I’ll be the guy to retire him. It will be very satisfying. It’s something that’s missing from my career.”

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