Kell Brook hopes to return this year after successful operation on fractured eye socket
Tuesday 8 August 2017 10:26, UK
Kell Brook has vowed to return to the ring by the end of 2017 after a successful operation on his fractured right eye socket.
The Sheffield man sustained the injury while losing his IBF welterweight title in an 11th-round stoppage defeat to Errol Spence Jr at Bramall Lane in May.
Brook underwent surgery last Friday on his right eye, which was similar to the left-eye socket fracture he suffered in his defeat to Gennady Golovkin in September, and hopes to make his comeback in 2017.
"I spoke to the surgeon and he said that the operation was a big success and simpler than the last one," said Brook.
Losing my belt was gutting, but I'm glad I accepted to fight Spence and help be part of an event that Sheffield will remember and be proud of.
"It took half the time of the first one and there's very little swelling and it looks great. The last scan I had revealed that the healing has started really well and the bone already looks strong, so I expect to make a full recovery and I want to fight again in 2017.
"I was bitterly disappointed by the loss at Bramall Lane. Losing my belt was gutting, but I'm glad I accepted to fight Spence and help be part of an event that Sheffield will remember and be proud of.
"I still feel that I have a massive future in the sport. I will talk to my team in the coming weeks about what we can do next and I am looking to get back into camp this summer."
