Amir Khan vs Kell Brook LIVE: Start time, live stream, latest updates and undercard results

Kell Brook put in a scintillating performance to stop Amir Khan and finally end their long-term rivalry in a thrilling encounter at the Manchester Arena.    

The Sheffield fighter was dominant from start to finish, hurting Khan badly in the first round, before the referee finally waved it off in the sixth round.  

The fierce rivals embraced in the ring after what was an astonishing bout, in what perhaps was the last time we’ll see a brave Khan in the ring.  

Kell Brook celebrated after defeating Amir Khan with an emphatic sixth-round stoppage 

The Sheffield fighter was on top right from the first round, before the referee finally waved it off in the sixth round

A 17-year rivalry was settled in the ring, with Khan and Brook finally embracing 

A fight ten years in the making finally made it into the Manchester Arena and never mind that it really should have happened a decade ago.

These are two of the warriors who kept British boxing bubbling through some lean years and there was still public fascination with who might finally prove himself the better man at 35 rather than 25.

Perhaps the curiosity was even more intense than it would have been in their prime. Who has the most venom and virility left in him?

Whose appetite for settling this long and bitter enmity in his favour is still the keenest?

If this was to be the final mile for these world champions past, then who was ready to pound that punishing yardage the hardest?

Even the bookmakers seemed confused. They kept Brook the favourite even though the big money was going on Khan the closer it came to fight night.

Maybe it would come down to who was harbouring the most hate, which of them would feel the most humiliated by defeat after all the verbals, the salacious insults, the ugly threats. All the talk that for once was brash rather than trash.

The hall was divided. To one side Brook’s men – and women – of Sheffield steel. To the other Khan’s Bolton Army. Both racially mixed and potentially volatile in their support. Loud and proud.

Despite plenty of mocking that this rivalry had been dredged up from a previous age, the 22,000 seats sold out within 36 hours of the fight being made and the pay-per-view TV sales were reported brisk. Many of those closest to the hardest game and nearest to the ring were unable to call a winner in the 50-50 fight they were about to witness, in an atmosphere as fervent and raucous as for many a world title fight.

Michael Buffer asked if they were ready to rumble. You bet. And if Father Time had to be the fourth man in the ring, so be it.

So for whom would the bell toll?

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