ELLE BROOKE says she loves and adores AJ Bunker despite knocking her out – and now wants to join forces for a tag-team fight.
The pair of influencers-turned boxers first collided in the summer of 2022 when Brooke won a points decision.
So on the surface it looked as though the bad blood was brewing ahead of a rematch in Leeds at Misfits 12.
Brooke eventually stopped Bunker with a brutal right hand but the two hugged it out post-fight.
And now the dust has settled, OnlyFans star Brooke revealed her admiration for Bunker, who she now wants to team up with.
She told SunSport: “I adore AJ, I really adore her. I loved seeing her win her title in Newcastle in September.
“I genuinely love her and when you’re in fight mode, that week I’m not going to lie to you she was my worst enemy, you have to be in fight mode, I’m fighting her.
“But put that aside, I’m a really big fan of her and I’d like to do a tag-team with her. That would be a really good story.”
Brooke was beaten for the first time in her last fight in July, losing to Brazilian TikToker Jully Poca.
So Brooke was in the mindset that consecutive defeats would have brought an end to her boxing career.
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She revealed: “I said that if I didn’t win this fight, then boxing’s not for me.
“Even though I enjoy it and I absolutely adore it, I spend so much time and energy and it’s so mentally draining that if I’m not winning there’s no point it being in my life.
“So I’m super happy I won. It was all or nothing, I want to be the best and if I was beaten twice then… I want to be the biggest, the baddest, the best, so I would’ve firmed it that boxing wasn’t for me.”
Brooke was close to leaving the sport all together but admitted she now has never loved it so much.
She said: “It wasn’t a pressure thing because I’d be happy either way. Boxing isn’t my only life – it is and it isn’t.
“I had a life before that so ultimately after my last loss it made me fall out of love with boxing a little bit.
‘And now I’ve won, I’ve fallen in love with it all over again.”
