ONE KELLUVA PUNCH
Kell Brook vs Rabchenko result: Special K secures second-round knockout victory and calls out Amir Khan
Sheffield boxer marked his return to action with his 26th knockout victory and his 37th professional win
KELL BROOK roared “I am the Terminator” after coming back from two broken eye sockets and setting his sights on Amir Khan.
The Sheffield star finished former sparring partner Sergey Rabchenko - in his new super-welterweight division - with a right hook Arnold Schwarzenegger would have been proud of.
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And, after the second-round win, he told Bolton star Khan that he is the name on his hit list.
The 31-year-old – who admitted after two crushing defeats that he was ready to retire – said “You thought you had got rid of me but I am the Terminator and I have come back and I am putting everyone on notice
“I was in a dark place at Christmas time but life now cannot be better so I am going to get back in the gym.
“Forget about the weight, I want Khan, everyone wants to see it.”
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Middleweight demolition man Gennady Golovkin shattered Brook’s eye socked in 2016 and Errol Spence Jr fractured the other in their fight a year later.
The crushing losses left the former IBF welterweight champ seriously considered retiring and he was hurt further when fellow fights called him a quitter for taking a knee against Spence.
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But a right uppercut and a right hook finished the Belarus fighter and proved Brook is back in love with the game and ready to hunt another down another title.
In truth, Rabchenko never really looked like threatening the Blade, especially in front of his home crowd.
Brook was in glistening new red and gold kit – compared to Rabchenko’s dull gear – that made him look a level above from the first bell.
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Every punch Brook threw seemed to land and just two minutes in Rabchenko’s face was marked.
Jabs to the head and body asked questions of Rabchenko that he never looked capable of answering.
Brook had struggle to boil his frame down to welterweight but has now moved up a division to free him up to enjoy more of his favourite chocolate brownies.
And he felt like his 38th win was more like his debut as he walked out in front of his home crowd in Sheffield and began his attempt at landing a second world title at a new weight.
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Brook said: “I felt very comfortable in my stomach, I felt good in there and strong and stable, the weight was good.
"It was all about getting my timing right tonight. I just needed to settle down.
"I timed my shots and buckled him. Boom! There you go, it was the temple shot that did him.
"It's all about timing. Forget speed, timing beats speed.
“I was trying to calm myself down, it was like my first fight tonight. I will be fighting again in a few weeks.”
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