Summary

  • Kell Brook beats Mark DeLuca with a seventh-round knockout for WBO inter-continental super-welterweight title

  • DeLuca has been beaten just once going into the Sheffield Arena bout

  • Brook has lost twice in a 40-fight career

  • Get involved: #bbcboxing

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Blades fan Brook takes on the Blades

    This is well worth a watch.

    As you'll know, Kell Brook is a big Sheffield United fan and fought at the Blades' home ground Bramall Lane in May 2017, but it did not have a happy ending as he lost to Errol Spence via an 11th-round knockout with the IBF World Welterweight Championship on the line.

    But here is Brook earlier this week taking on some of the Blades players with Jack O'Connell and John Lundstram trying their luck in a sparring session.

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  2. A tough four years for Brook

    Kell Brook says anything less than a "spectacular" win against American Mark DeLuca tonight will not be good enough.

    Brook, 33, will face the American after a 14-month spell out of the ring. He has endured a testing period since 2016, having broken both eye sockets and given up his world welterweight title.

    Brook has lost twice in a 40-fight career, during which he travelled to the US to land a shock world-title win against Shawn Porter in 2014.

    "I want to be a two-time world champion this year," Brook added. "I could do welterweight. For the right fight, I'll do welterweight. It would have to be a meaningful fight. A world title fight, or a big meaningful fight."

    He could do welterweight, but it's at super-welterweight tonight.

  3. Thanks for joining us

    Welcome along to BBC Sport's live text commentary on another night of top-class boxing with Kell Brook taking on tricky American Mark DeLuca at the Sheffield Arena, with the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight Championship on the line.

    More importantly though, it will take the winner closer to a world title shot as Brook aims to get back on top of boxing.

  4. Dreaming of a second world title

    Great Britain's Kell Brook already knows what it feels like to be the champion of the world.

    The Sheffield man, back in action tonight after more than a year out of the ring, desperately wants to become a two-time champion.

    To keep that dream alive, a win is a must tonight.

    A loss and it could be game over.

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