Brook vs Chaves: The challenger's five best fights

Diego Chaves takes on IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook on October 24 live on Sky Sports Box Office and we look back on his five best fights.

The 29-year-old from Argentina (23-2-1-KO19) has won just one of his last four but all those bouts were against top-class opponents and he will arrive in Sheffield as a dangerous underdog.

Let's look back at his biggest nights so far...

Ismael El Massoudi

Chaves had spent two-and-a-half years as the WBO Latino welterweight champion when he got his first world title chance - a shot at the interim WBA world welterweight champion El Massoudi, who had won the strap with a final round TKO of Souleymane M'baye a year previously.

Having stopped his last three opponents and in front of vociferous support from his home crowd in Buenos Aires, Chaves put on a brutal display as he forced exchanges from the opening bell. The crowd responded and although he had to take several crisp shots from his opponent, Chaves set out his stall to bully his man in the first session.

In the second, a huge overhand right sent El Massoudi spinning backwards to the ropes and Chaves showed more aggression by landing another right with the visitor crouched down. A second bundling knockdown followed and the end came with a withering right cross that laid El Massoudi flat out.

Jose Miranda

Almost exactly two months after defeating El Massoudi, Chaves defended his interim status against Panamanian journeyman Miranda - again in Buenos Aires.

A routine Chaves victory always seemed likely but he showed some impressive variations on his big right hand. It was the right that did the damage in the first round - staggering Miranda with two sharp counters that ignited the crowd, and the second round was one-way traffic.

It was a sweetly-timed left that kicked off Miranda's rapid slide to defeat, and an impressive seven-punch combination - culminating in that trademark right cross - soon sent the underdog to the canvas. He rose on unsteady legs with the crowd baying for a stoppage and they were treated to one almost immediately, with Chaves unloading at will and Miranda huddled on the ropes doing a poor job of defending himself.

Keith Thurman

Chaves travelled to the US for only the second time in his career, risking his interim world champion status and his unblemished record against unbeaten American prospect Thurman, who had stopped 17 of his previous 20 opponents.

Although renowned for his power, Thurman was a slicker boxer than Chaves had faced previously. The first round was promising with both fighters landing big shots and their chins standing up to the examinations. The pair continued to trade rounds amid some thrilling action with Thurman finding his range, timing and throwing in feints to confuse Chaves and shade the exchanges.

The fight was still in the balance in the ninth with both fighters' noses bleeding, but Thurman swung it with a withering body shot that prompted Chaves to take a knee. At the start of the ninth, Thurman unloaded disguised left hooks that stunned Chaves, and the flurry continued until he sank to his knee again. This time, he failed to make the count.

Brandon Rios

Chaves regrouped following the defeat to Thurman and recorded a third-round stoppage of Juan Alberto Godoy in Buenos Aires prior to facing Rios back in the 'big time.' It proved one of the more controversial matches of 2014 with the bad blood between the pair spilling over to a wild bout.

Rios was touted as Brook's next opponent earlier in the year and since, Chaves has spoken of the anger that still remains over referee Vic Drakulich's decision to disqualify him. The fighters traded on the inside for much of the fight with neither giving an inch and their heads colliding regularly.

Chaves was deducted a point for holding in round three and then another for an intentional headbutt in the eighth. Rios threw his man to the floor and was deducted a point himself but after continual hitting on the break, verbals and head contact, Chaves was disqualified for use of the elbow - much to his bewilderment.

Timothy Bradley

Chaves returned to the same Vegas arena for a clash with Bradley, who had suffered the first defeat of his career at the hands of Manny Pacquiao in his previous fight. Chaves - stung by the decision and the reaction to his disqualification against Rios - was out to prove a point and set about dragging the American in to his kind of war.

There was a head clash in the second round that left Bradley's left eye badly swollen and meaningful exchanges in the fourth, but neither fighter was able to gain a clear advantage. By the sixth, Bradley was beginning to utilise his superior movement and fire off before escaping from Chaves' range, but back came the Argentine with a meaty right hand.

He had arguably enjoyed the better of the opening few rounds before Bradley established his boxing skills and Chaves, whose left eye was also swollen shut by the final bell, felt afterwards he had been denied a famous victory by the split draw.