kell brook is talking about fighting floyd mayeather or manny pacquiao, juan manuel marquez or brandon rios — in no given order — before a wembley blockbuster with amir khan sometime next year nothing wrong with ambition but the first question brook has to answer comes in his home town of sheffield tonight it has less to do with his undeniable boxing ability than with whether he truly is recovered from the machete attack which inflicted horrific wounds to his left leg kell brook poses on the scales at the weigh in ahead of his match with title challenger jo jo dan  brook will defend his ibf welterweight title against dan in his home city of sheffield on saturday night  brook assures us that all is well following that bizarre incident in tenerife where he was celebrating the stunning win over american shawn porter which gained him the ibf world welterweight title eddie hearn, his matchroom promoter, tells of how demonically brook has laboured in the intervening six months to rescue his career from near death and the fear of never walking again but what no one can know until he climbs into the ring as a world champion for the first time is whether there is any residual damage for a boxer there is more to getting better than for most of us it is with the legs that a prizefighter exercises his thrusting mobility it is from the legs that he generates the majority of his punching power brook is set to compete less than six months after a horrific stab attack nearly left him dead in tenerife  dan poses on the scales at the weigh in ahead of his title match with ibf welterweight champion brook  brook's attack left him with a 12 inch wound on his thigh and he has shown great strength to recover  if either his balance or strength in that leg has been sapped, brook will find it doubly difficult to perform at elite level if both are reduced, he will be diminished thus the examination about to be conducted by his moderate challenger, jo jo dan, will be more medical than a test of brook’s talent with older boxers it is the legs that go first but you never find out for sure until he is engaged in the heat of battle close scrutiny on sky television will determine whether brook, at 28, has been slowed prematurely a small impediment is unlikely to be enough to deprive him of a homecoming victory, even though romanian  born, canadian based dan insists he has prepared himself to shut out the roar of brook’s partisan support brook claimed the ibf welterweight title in 2014 when he defeated the previous holder shawn porter (left) but the issue is whether he wins in athletic style, with the ‘five star performance’ he is promising his fans the local crowd, those of us at ringside and british boxing at large will be hoping he can if so, he will travel to las vegas for may 2 to be ringside for the fight of the century, eager to argue his case for meeting the winner of pacquiao and mayweather in a world welterweight unification fight that is markedly less likely to happen than an autumn fight with rios, en route to an eventual showdown with khan but if brook puts on a show this weekend there would be no harm in asking brook and dan square up with one another ahead of their ibf title match in sheffield on saturday  brook has also expressed an interest in facing floyd mayweather or manny pacquiao in the near future  brook and dan shake hands ahead of their ibf welterweight title match in sheffield on saturday  brook v dan is live on sky sports 1 from 730pm 
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kell brook will defend his ibf welterweight title against jo jo dan less than six months after a horrific machete attack which almost killed him . the 28 year old will headline in his home city of sheffield on saturday having worked his way up through the local gyms and leisure centres . brook says that the stabbing ordeal has helped to make him stronger 