Kell Brook Will Undergo Surgery to Repair Broken Orbital Bone Injury

Former welterweight champion Kell Brook will have surgery on June 16 to repair the broken left orbital bone he suffered in his knockout loss to Errol Spence Jr. on May 27, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com.

"That's all I'm saying for now," Brook told Rafael. "I'm having a rest for a while."  

Brook suffered the injury in the seventh round against Spence but continued to fight until he was unable to continue in the 11th round. It was deja vu for Brook, who had the same injury against Gennady Golovkin in his previous fight, as he noted:

"I got caught on the left eye in the seventh, and it felt really bad. It was the one the worst feelings I ever had—kind of like when [Golovkin] hit me and fractured my orbital bone. It was devastating. I just couldn't see."

It was a competitive fight. He got some rounds. I won some rounds, too. I felt I was winning, but my eye didn't allow me to continue. I just couldn't see. You can't fight if you can't see. I got put down, and I got up because I'm a warrior. I got up and kept on fighting, but in the 11th, I just couldn't see. I had to take the knee."

After starting his career 36-0, Brook has now lost consecutive fights to Golovkin and Spence, with neither fight going the distance. But Spence's trainer, Derrick James, praised Brook after his loss to Spence.

"Brook showed me a lot," he said, per FightHype.com (h/t Neel Khagram of Sky Sports). "He is a real man, because any other guy would have quit way before he did. Errol was hitting him with some real hard shots and he basically took it for as long as he could take it. That's what people don't understand. I don't think any of those other top guys would have been able to take the shots like that."