Kell Brook indicates he cannot continue (Picture: Action Images via Reuters)

Kell Brook has explained he was worried Errol Spence Jr could blind him if he continued in their world title bout in Sheffield.

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The Bramall Lane event was Brook’s glorious homecoming, but it ended up being another bitterly disappointing night for the welterweight as he was stopped by Spence Jr.

The American challenger grew into the fight and was on the verge of finishing Brook at several points late in the bout.

Brook took a knee in the eleventh round as his eye ballooned and the Brit revealed he will need surgery again to correct his vision.


‘The eye is broken again, the same as the GGG one, I need surgery again and I am devastated,’ he told Sky Sports.

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‘It kept going to double vision and that’s why I went down on one knee.’



He added: ‘I remember the surgeon telling me if I’d have gone a round or so extra (against Gennady Golovkin) I could have gone blind and I had that in my mind.’

Gennady Golovkin broke Brook’s eye socket in their London clash last September.

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The fight was Brook’s last outing in the ring before he stepped out against the young contender last Saturday.

Brook told his corner that he could not see after Spence Jr spent several minutes targeting his swollen eye.

After the fight Brook defended his decision to retire after a flurry of accusations saying he ‘quit’ during the fight.

I got caught on the left eye in the seventh and it felt really bad,’ Brook said.

‘It was the one the worst feelings I ever had. Kind of like when GGG hit me on fracture my orbital bone. It was devastating. I just couldn’t see.

‘It was a competitive fight. He got some rounds. I won some rounds too. I felt I was winning, but my eye didn’t allow me to continue.

‘I just couldn’t see. You can’t fight if you can’t see.

‘I got put down, and I got up because I’m warrior. I got up and kept on fighting, but on the eleven I just couldn’t see. I had to take the knee.’

Surgery on the eye will require another couple of months of recovery before Brook can even think about what his next move could be.

Spence Jr is now in line for a welterweight unification fight against WBC and WBA champion Keith Thurman.

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