Kell Brook: Twenty years on - the Sheffield council estate kid who became a world-beater
The stadium is long gone.
Sheffield's Don Valley once echoed the sounds of superstars like Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and Michael Jackson.
But in the bowels of the bowl, a boxing ring set up for a routine Dennis Hobson show, 20 years ago on Tuesday, was to be the stage for two local fighters.
One was John Fewkes, who went on to have a solid Won 22 Lost 2 Drew 2 career.
'Fireball Fewkes' collected a Central Area Super Lightweight title and competed for an English strap before retiring.
He now runs a successful gym in Gleadless and trains professionals and amateurs.
The other debutant that night, was one Kell Brook, who became a world champion and traded blows with some of the best fighters on the planet.
Not that there was much evidence of what lay ahead, that evening of September 17, 2004.
Brook was being blooded in the sport against Birmingham journeyman Peter Buckley, who had had no fewer than 189 fights before climbing into the Sheffield ring with Brook.
Beatable - obviously. But Buckley was knowledgeable enough to put the rookie through his paces, in a bout that lasted the full six rounds.
Looking back at that night - where it all began - is a source of pride for Brook, now a Dore family man, millionaire and seemingly out of the game.
"It is 20 years ago but I remember it like it well, like it was yesterday," Kell told The Star.
"You don't forget your first pro fight.
"I didn't know much about Buckley at the time but knew he was a grown man, not someone of my own age, (he was 20) and that made a difference to me and I remember thinking 'This is a real fight, I am fighting a big man.'
"I thought this is where it all starts and it did!"
Journeyman Buckley retired four years later.
Kell went on to have a proud record of 43 fights, all but three of them wins. More importantly, he became IBF World Welterweight champion.
His losses only came against elite fighters, Gennadiy Golovkin, (a middleweight) Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford.
His career finished with a stoppage of long-term domestic rival Amir Khan two years ago, and some fans think that grudge-match victory must have been one of his proudest moments.
But Kell prefers to focus on his stunning win on American soil over Shawn Porter, which delivered him the world title he'd toiled so hard for.
He defended it three times before his career started to take some unexpected twists and turns, not least of all the back-to-back defeats to Golovkin and Spence.
"Over that time, injuries took their toll, I had two eye injuries, I was ballooning up to middleweight for Golovkin and then dropping back to kill myself to fight Errol Spence, he was mandatory, it happened quick, and it was all about making weight.
"I felt that during the fight and my eye went in it.
"I know I could have beaten him. I am a big welterweight but I was completely drained.
"After Golovkin, I had gone on holiday - all-inclusive - carried on eating then starting to get the weight down again (for the Spence duel.)
"All-inclusive! It's very difficult when you are from a council estate and you just want to get as much on your plate as you can!"
Life has had its ups and downs over the past few years as the Sheffielder has fought his private demons.
Occasionally, there are suggestions that at 38 years old the former Ingle champion could enter the ring for another moneyspinner.
So The Star asked him directly: Have you hung them up?
"Yes, I think so, it is always hard when you have done it all your life," said the father of three daughters.
"But yes, I think enjoying time with my family, enjoying nobody phoning me to get to gym or telling me to eat rabbit food.
"I am getting holidays in, I have started skiing and I am enjoying life,
"It has always been Kell Brook the boxer; now I am finding the real me...being a family man."
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