Kell Brook announces retirement from boxing as he praises Amir Khan in message

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Kell Brook has announced his retirement from boxing and praised long-time rival Amir Khan in a heartfelt message.

"I've had a long chat with my family and my parents, and it's over for me. I'll never box again," Brook told the Sunday Telegraph. "It's a little emotional to be actually saying this out loud.

"My mum is relieved. I think everyone around me is pleased. Truth is, boxing is a very very tough, dangerous sport, one in which you can be legally killed in the ring, and I've finished now with all my faculties intact.

"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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