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Martin Domin

Amir Khan and Kell Brook avoid huge fine after weighing in for grudge fight

Amir Khan and Kell Brook successfully made weight for tomorrow night's grudge fight - and avoided a hefty fine in the process.

The bitter rivals had agreed a 149lb catchweight for a fight that has been more than a decade in the making.

And both men had agreed to pay a fine of £100,000 for every pound they scaled over the limit.

But Brook, who had teased that he may come in overweight in order to have an advantage in the ring, scaled 148lb before Khan weighed 147lb.

The build-up to the clash in Manchester has been fraught with both men stepping over the line at yesterday's press conference.

Amir Khan and Kell Brook both managed to weigh inside the 149lb catchweight limit (PA)

Khan revealed he has lost all respect for Brook after accusing his rival of making a racial slur but the Sheffield fighter insisted his "poppadom chin" remark has been taken out of context.

"It’s so sad that that he had to come out with a comment like that," said Khan. "I respected him as a fighter, don’t get me wrong. It gives me an added push to stick it on him and give him a proper beating.

"At the end of the day we’re fighting each other but you still have some sort of respect for him – I think that’s gone out the window now. I thought maybe after the fight we could be friends, I don’t want to be his friend.

"People look up to Kell Brook, he’s on the biggest stage of his career. The reason we have to talk about this and get it out there is so people realise giving racial (abuse) should not happen and we are totally against it.

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"Everyone needs to be on that and say ‘it shouldn’t happen’. People shouldn’t be racist especially in this day and age, come on. We’re in the 21st Century and we shouldn’t hear anything racial now. But it is still out there."

Khan also made allegations regarding Brook's sexuality as his rival denied being racist.

"What (Khan) is trying to do is get everyone on his side and think I’m some kind of racist character when I’m not. There’s no way I’m racist at all," said Brook.

"He’s trying to put me under the bus by getting people up turn on me. I just meant by what I said is how delicate he is, poppadoms just break, which is the same as his chin.

"That’s the only angle I’m coming from. There’s no racial angle there at all, zero."

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