Loved-up Kell Brook and Ebanie Bridges back between the ropes
Kell Brook and partner Ebanie Bridges are plotting a 'His and Hers' comeback to the ring before the end of the year.
Brook, Sheffield's former IBF world welterweight champion, says he will return with a British Boxing Board of Control-sanctioned fight by the end of the year.
He says he has continued to train seven days a week after his scheduled fight with Eisa Al Dah (a planned Ricky Hatton benefit match) fell through.
"I am on a different level - I am flying" the 40-year-old Dore man told talkSPORT.
"There is some massive news about to drop."
"I'm coming back...a massive fight," he promised.
"It will happen this year."
Brook has not boxed since his explosive stoppage of Amir Khan in Manchester in February 2022, bringing an end to one of British boxing's most bitter and long-running rivalries.
Now, after more than four years away from competitive action, the gloabl champion appears determined to make his comeback count.
He refused to rule out a mouthwatering clash with Chris Eubank Jr, potentially at middleweight or super-middleweight, when asked about the possibility. "Who knows? It could be" he said.
A fight with Eubank would represent a significant step up in weight for Brook, but would also provide the kind of high-profile occasion that sees him thrive.
And it appears Brook will not be the only one in the household dusting off the gloves.
Ebanie, 39, says she too will "have a proper fight, by the end of the year, God willing.
"I would love to get out again this year" she said saying it would be her third outing after bouts in Tyne and War and Puerto Rico in January and April.
A simultaneous return for Brook and Bridges would give the couple a unique opportunity to share the spotlight, with both looking to end the year back where they feel most at home - inside the ring.