By Scott Gilfoid: Recently, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan mentioned unbeaten number #2 WBO ranked welterweight contender Kell Brook (24-0, 16 Ko’s) as someone he plans on fighting if he can get by IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah on July 23, and after Khan faces aging former champion Erik Morales in his fight after that. It sound good, right? Wrong!

It’s easy for Khan to pick the 25-year-old Brook out, because the guy has never faced a top tier opponent during his entire seven year pro career. Brook is on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. track to the top, although Brook doesn’t get nearly as much stick because he’s not as well known as Chavez. But frankly, I think Khan shouldn’t waste his time fighting Brook until he fights a top tier guy for the first time.

All I’m asking is for Brook to face one top tier guy like Mike Jones, Andre Berto, Mike Alvarado, Randall Bailey, Selcuk Adyin, Luis Carlos Abregu, Sebastian Lujan or Shawn Porter. Instead of facing top tier guys, we’ve been seeing Brook against 39-year-old Lovemore N’dou, Philip Kotey, Michael Jennings, Krzysztof Bienias, Michael Lomax and Stuart Elwell in the past two years.

Khan isn’t even having to stick his neck out by fighting an inexperienced guy like Brook. I think Floyd Mayweather Jr. shouldn’t waste his time fighting Khan if all he’s going to fight is Judah, Erik Morales and Brook to campaign for a fight against Mayweather. Maybe I would see the Brook fight as something if Brook had actually fought someone from the top tier instead of just a bunch of little known B level fighters. Mayweather is going to expose Khan as being an overqualified novice when and if they do fight. Guys like Brook isn’t a stepping stone to Mayweather if Brook has never fought anyone before. This isn’t going to help Khan. It’s going to give him a swelled head because he’ll wind up thinking he’s better than he really is after beating the inexperienced Brook.