Welterweight champion Kell Brook hospitalized after stabbing

International Boxing Federation welterweight boxing champion Kell Brook of England was stabbed in the leg while on vacation on the island of Tenerife.

Brook, who won the title by majority decision over Shawn Porter at StubHub Center on Aug. 16, is in stable condition at a hospital, his promoter told the Associated Press.

The 28-year-old was stabbed in his left leg Wednesday at the Golf del Sur resort in San Miguel de Abona on the Spanish island off the coast of Morocco.

“We’ve been through a lot together, me and Kell, and receiving the news this morning hit me in the pit of my stomach,” his trainer, Dominic Ingall, told the BBC. “It’s a sickening feeling.”

Brook (33-0, 22 knockouts) was scheduled to defend his title on Dec. 6, though an opponent had not been announced.

“He’s a fighter, Kell. We don’t know the extent of his injuries but whichever way, knowing Kell, he’ll try and make that date [in December] if he can,” Ingall said.

Brook’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had reportedly been in talks with former light-welterweight champion Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) for a fight between the fellow countrymen next year.

“There is some serious beef between Kell Brook and Amir Khan,” Hearn recently told Sky Sports. “They cannot stand each other and I think that those rivalries are always something very special.”