Photos: Errol Spence Drops, Stops Kell Brook - MONSTER Gallery

Bramall Lane, Sheffield - For the IBF welterweight championship, Errol Spence (22-0, 19 KOs) stopped Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) in the eleventh round to become a world champion.

For Brook, it was his first fight back in the welterweight division. Last September, he moved up by two full weight classes to challenge IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. Brook suffered a fractured orbital bone and was stopped in the fifth round.

Spence is coming off his world title eliminator win from last August, when he knocked out Leonard Bundu in Coney Island to secure his mandatory world title shot.

Brook was taking the fight to Spence, being aggressive in the first. Spence was going to the body quite often and looking to check the resolve of the champion. Brook continued the same type of fight in the second. Brook was able to land his right hand often, while Spence was able to get off with the right jab of his own. Spence was more focused on the body than anything else. 

Spence was really accurate in the third, landing to the head and body, pressing the action and had Brook on the defensive quite often. Brook was able to slow things down with a good right. Brook was able to rally in the final twenty seconds with punches of his own. In the fourth, it started with a good exchange of punches between the two. There was blood coming out of the mouth of Spence, who continued to target the body. There was a lot of holding on the inside. Brook started to rally with some good shots in the second half of the round.

Brook started going to the body himself in the fifth. Spence was using the jab to close the distance and went back to the body. Brook landed a big uppercut on the inside. Brook was switching often from orthodox to southpaw. Spence with a combination of punches to close out the round. At the start of the sixth, Brook landed a good shot that backed Spence up and rattled his legs. That forced Spence to really fight back with a variety of punches that had Brook holding on. Spence continue to control most of the round.

The seventh was close, with both fighters slowing down the pace. Brook was landing the more telling punches during the action. During the eight, Spence was going after Brook - who knocked him big with a good shot and then unloading with a combination of punches. They were trading shots to the body and Spence started to unload with combinations of his own. The left eye of Brook was starting to swell up.

In the ninth, Brook was targeting the head and Spence was still going to the body. Spence was jabbing and looking to target the damaged eye of Brook. Brook was lunging forward and getting caught with big shots to the head and body. Spence really worked him over in the final minute.

Spence unloaded with punches at the start of the tenth to put Brook down to his knees. Spence went right after Brook, battering him with punches. brook started trying to rally back with punches of his own. The final minute was a close-pitched battle on the inside. They were trading at the start of the eleventh, Spence with more digging shots to the body and working over Brook as he kept pawing at the left eye. Brook took a knee out of nowhere and stayed down, as it appeared the eye was injured. The referee counted him out and waved off the fight.