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Brook: Crolla will fly the flag
- Updated: September 21, 2016
Kell Brook is backing Anthony Crolla to get the British boxing flag flying high again by beating Jorge Linares.
The Manchester lightweight is taking on the toughest test of his career against the three-weight world champion, on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports 2.
Crolla is defending his WBA world title on the back of both Brook and Liam Smith losing high-profile bouts against elite fighters, Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez respectively, in the last two weeks.
Linares has won titles at featherweight, super-featherweight and lightweight and stopped Kevin Mitchell on his last visit to the United Kingdom in May 2015 and although Brook admits it is a hard fight to call, he believes ‘Million Dollar’ will get British world champions back to winning ways.
“It’s top fight after fight at the moment and this is the time for British boxing,” he told Sky Sports.
“Eddie Hearn and other promoters are …
