By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (33-0, 22 KOs) successfully made weight on Friday for his first title defense of his IBF 147 pound strap against 33-year-old Romanian Jo Jo Dan (34-2, 18 KOs) for their fight this Saturday night at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

The 28-year-old Brook weighed in at 145.6 pounds, and looked kind of slender for the weight. It’s unclear why Brook came in so far under the 148 pound weight limit. He’s a fighter that tends to balloon up in weight after he rehydrates after his weigh-ins, and he probably should be fighting in the junior middleweight division rather than at 147.

For Brook to come in this low, it suggests that he dehydrated too much, or he over-trained for the fight. My guess is he overdid it with the dehydration.

There’s no reason for Brook to over train for the Jo Jo Dan fight, because this fight is a mismatch on paper due to Dan not having much punching power, and him having been beaten twice by Selcuk Aydin in the past.

Dan looked a lot better in weighing in at 146.25. He looked healthy at the weight, and didn’t look stringy the way that Brook looks. That’s not to say that I think Dan will win the fight. I think he has no chance of winning, but I do think he looked healthier at the weigh-in. He obviously did a better job of draining down in weight than Brook did.

Brook, 28, needs to look good for this fight in order to make a case that he deserves the bigger fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr, Amir Khan and Manny Pacquiao.

It’s almost an impossible situation for Brook though, as Jo Jo Dan isn’t a big enough name for Brook to get much of a bounce from this fight. It’s one thing looking good against a top talent like Marcos Maidana or Adrien Broner, but it’s another thing looking good against a fighter with an arguably inflated record like Jo Jo Dan.

Here are the other weights on the card:

Gavin McDonnell 121 vs. Oleksandr Yegorov 121.5
Adam Etches 159.4 vs. Sergei Khomitsky 159
Frankie Gavin 149.25 vs. Bogdan Mitic 147.1
Kal Yafai 114 vs. Cristofer Rosales 113

As you can see, the card is pretty much filled with mismatches. I don’t see one competitive fight on the card. Welterweight Frankie Gavin is over-matched against Bogdan Mitic, and the same goes for Gavin McDonnell in his fight against Oleksandr Yegorov.