By Scott Gilfoid: Buoyed by his fighter Kell Brook’s easy win over a fighter that few boxing fans have ever heard of last Saturday night in Brook’s IBF welterweight eliminator bout against Hector Saldivia, Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn is now talking that Amir Khan will have to accept a 50-50 deal in terms of money split if he wants to fight Brook. The last I heard, Khan is laughing at the idea of fighting Brook, so Hearn is wasting his breath with his requests for parity in the financial split for his dream fight between Brook and Khan.

Hearn told IFilm London “We’re talking about a fight that would pay Khan 2 million quid. Where else is he going to get that kind of money? We could land a stadium fight in April. We’re [Brook] filling stadiums; we’re the mandatory challenger for the IBF title. The terms would have to be 50-50. But he’d [Khan] get destroyed by Kell. He couldn’t live with Kell Brook. Ricky Hatton is a legend. He couldn’t live with Kell Brook.”

It looks like Hearn is going over the deep end after Brook’s empty win over Saldivia. I could understand it if Brook had actually fought and beat someone good, but Saldivia was about the worse looking top five contender I’ve ever seen before, and I’ve seen a lot of terrible fighters.

Saldivia made Matthew Hatton, Michael Jennings and Rafal Jackiewicz look good in comparison. Hearn is really trying to pump up this empty victory by Brook, making it seem as if he did more than he actually did. It’s quite sad really, but also kind of scary because I’d hate to think of the kind of match-making Hearn would do for Brook if he were to somehow fall into a world title.

I mean, Brook isn’t going to beat IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander in this lifetime, but being as young as Alexander is, Hearn might be able to manage getting him a paper title at some point in his career. The WBA welterweight strap has been held by weak champions one after another for years now and is currently held by another weak champion in Paulie Malignaggi. I suppose Hearn will be able to wrangle a world title for Brook at some point before he ages out. I just hate to think of the kind of soft match-making we might see if that happens.

Hearn can forget about a 50-50 deal with Khan. Even if Khan were interested in that fight, it wouldn’t be a 50-50 deal that Brook would be getting because he doesn’t deserve it. Khan simply has fought the much better opposition during his career, and is well known outside of the UK. Brook is just well known in the UK, so he’s not going to get a 50-50 deal.

At any rate, none of this matters at all because Khan already said he’s not interested because Brook simply isn’t fighting world class opposition. He might be on the verge of fighting a world class fighter in next fight depending on if he takes the fight with Alexander or not of if squirms out of it. But that still won’t be enough. Brook would have to beat Alexander and then defend the title a few times against QUALITY opposition, not the Saldivia and Jackiewicz types that Brook has built his inflated record on.