LONDON: Britain’s IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook is in hospital on the Spanish island of Tenerife after being stabbed in the leg while on holiday, his promoters revealed yesterday.
Promoters Matchroom said that Brook’s condition was “stable” after the incident, which took place yesterday morning. Brook was reported to be on holiday with his pregnant wife Lindsey.
A spokeswoman from Spain’s Civil Guard said: “A 28-year-old British man was stabbed in the left leg this morning in Golf del Sur in San Miguel de Abona. There have been no arrests at the moment, but an investigation is ongoing.”
Brook, who is unbeaten in 33 fights, 22 of which have come by knockout, claimed the IBF title with a majority decision win over America’s Shawn Porter in California last month.
It is the second time he has been stabbed, following a previous incident outside a nightclub in his home city of Sheffield, northern England, in 2007. AFP
BRUSSELS: US sprinter Justin Gatlin will go for a 100-200m double at the Diamond League finale in Brussels today, up against a raft of track stars but not Jamaican Usain Bolt.
While Bolt has already called time on his injury-plagued season, the 32-year-old Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic gold medallist in the 100m and 200m world champion in 2005 before serving a four-year doping ban, has seized his opportunity to dominate global sprinting in 2014.
The American veteran has set the fastest times of the year in both sprints, 9.80 in the 100m and 19.68sec in the 200m.
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