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‘He can have another whooping’ – Kell Brook ready to fight Amir Khan again as rival considers invoking rematch clause

KELL BROOK is ready to give Amir Khan ‘another whooping’ – as it emerged a rematch is being considered.

Brook looked to have emphatically ended a near-two decade rivalry after dominating Khan over six rounds.

Kell Brook is ready to rematch Amir Khan

But the famously hard to negotiate fight included a rematch clause in the contract for the loser.

And amid rumours Khan, 35, is contemplating a rematch, Brook, 35, is more than happy to do it all over again.

He told Sky Sports: “If he wants another whooping he can have another whooping.

“It was so one-sided, I don’t know what he can say and come back to the table with.

“If he wants that rematch, I’ll dust them gloves off and do it again.”

Promoter Ben Shalom, the man to have finally agreed the grudge match, revealed Khan is looking to exercise his right to a rematch.

Shalom said: “I think the word on the street is true – Amir Khan, he doesn’t want to call it a day.

“He has spent a lot of time thinking about the fight the past couple of weeks and he feels like he had ten weeks to prepare and Kell Brook had six months.

“So he feels hard done by. I don’t know whether that fight is even possible, but he does have that rematch clause.

“For me, for Kell Brook it’s time to move on, whether it’s to retire or to fight one of the other names mentioned.

“I can’t see it, but Amir is convinced, we will hear what his reasons are in the next few days and we’ll have to take it from there.”

Khan won silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics at the age of just 17 before becoming a unified world champion in the pros.

But his crushing loss to bitter rival Brook appeared to signal the end of a historic and glittering career.

And promoter Shalom agreed now is the right time for the British boxing icon to call it a day.

He said: “Whatever he does, he’s had a great career, just for me it probably was the time to hang up the gloves, but he feels very differently.”

Promoter Ben Shalom with Kell Brook