They say timing is everything. As he prepares for the stage in his career that could not only make him a very wealthy man but also define his boxing legacy, Kell Brook would probably agree with that expression more than most.
Serious business
"Kell has had to start training at that elite level," Ingle told
Sky Sports after an open session at Meadowhall Shopping Centre. "You look at Mayweather and Pacquiao training and it is a serious business - there are millions of dollars involved.
"It's not something you can do as an afterthought. Kell has got the ability but sometimes that has over-ridden other elements of his training.
"If you watch the fight against Carson Jones, for the first six rounds he schooled the guy, but he simply ran out of steam after that. What he did show, though, was tremendous amounts of courage, gritting his teeth and dealing with a broken nose to get through to the end of the fight.
"But that fight really made him sit up and think, 'this can't happen again'. It made him realise that it's not just a given that every time he walks into the ring he's going to win the fight.
"Kell's accepted that boxing is a full-time job; it's not something you do for three hours a day for five days a week. It's something you do from the age of 18 hopefully to the age of 30 or 32, hopefully making as much money as you can so you can finish.
"You have to utilise those peak years and generate your money."
Ingle had to watch on from the corner as Brook battled his way through the second half of the fight with the teak-tough Jones at the Motorpoint Arena, a stark contrast to his emphatic points success against Matthew Hatton at the same venue just four months previously.
For the first six rounds it seemed things were going to plan, but Brook's struggles to make the weight and inability to see off the American early meant he was forced to dig in right through to the final bell.
Learning
"I think he underestimated Jones," Ingle continued. "But he's learned from his mistakes.
"He had boxed Matthew Hatton and Lovemore Ndou, which was a big fight for him. He trained like a demon for that, he was in the gym at the weekend, got his diet right and I thought against Ndou he performed really well.
"After that I think everything was a bit of an anti-climax. We waited for the Hatton fight and he trained well for that as well. He got up for that, because Hatton was a name.
"I think because he won every single round and had him (Hatton) down, when the Jones fight came around, it was another anti-climax.
"Kell is a kid you've got to be challenging on a daily basis, even in training. If you let him get bored, then he'll think it's easy. When you challenge him to do certain things he's up for it."
If Brook needs a challenge to thrive then the next year to 18 months should suit him down to the ground. If the penny has truly dropped, then he could be about to hit the jackpot.
