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KELL BROOK has officially announced his retirement from boxing, insisting: “It’s over for me.”
The Sheffield slugger entered talks over a second consecutive domestic dust-up with Chris Eubank Jr shortly after his stunning stoppage victory over Amir Khan in February.
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But the former IBF welterweight title champion has since opted to bring the curtain down on his storied career.
He told The Telegraph: “I’ve had a long chat with my family and my parents, and it’s over for me. I’ll never box again.
“It’s a little emotional to be actually saying this out loud.
“My man is relieved. I think everyone around me is pleased.”
Brook, who turned 36 earlier this month, is relieved to be getting out of the fight game without any serious damage.
He continued: “[The] rruth is, boxing is a very, very tough, dangerous sport, one in which you can be legally killed In the ring.
“And I’ve finished with all my faculties intact.”
Special K had numerous offers on the table following his sixth-round stoppage of Khan in Manchester.
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But the 43-fight veteran is adamant there isn’t anyone capable of making him reverse his decision to call it a day.
He said: “I just don’t see it. It’s not there anymore.”
Brook at peace with his career, in which he only suffered losses to future hall-of-famers Gennady Golovkin, Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford, following his immensely satisfying victory over Khan.
He admitted: “I needed the Khan fight, I needed to settle the grudge, the feud.
“There is no dark feeling left in me now, I think when you have been in the ring with someone it passes, it leaves you.
“Me and Amir said some words which were hateful in the build-up, but that’s what happens in boxing.
“But I respect him after the fight. He showed real heart in there.”
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Brook has no regrets about how his career panned out, despite suffering two nasty orbital bone injuries and having his reign as IBF welterweight king come to a heartbreaking end at Bramall Lane in 2017.
He said of his time as a professional pugilist: “Like I said, highs and lows, a rollercoaster, it’s been a long journey and all I’ve known.
“I’ve been a world champion, and that night against Shawn Porter in California will live with me forever.
“As will my last fight with Amir. It’s not going to get better than that walk to the ring.”
“It was my dream since I started boxing at the age of nine to be a world champion. It was a special night.
“I’ve been in the ring with Golovkin, Spence, Crawford, and I finally got my fight with Amir Khan.
“After that, I don’t think I needed to go on anymore. I’m one of the lucky boxers who has earned enough not to have to work.
“But I am going to give something back again, and I’d like to train or manage young fighters.
“I’d just like to be remembered as a fighter who would go in with anyone, feared no one, and who gave the fans what they wanted.”
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