By William Mackay: Perhaps it’s for the best that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) doesn’t fight unbeaten top welterweight and fellow Brit Kell Brook (23-0, 16 KO’s). It isn’t about Brook being bigger than Khan or anything like that, because Brook is actually shorter than Khan at 5’9″ compared to the 5’10” Khan. And it isn’t because Brook is bigger than Khan in terms of weight or frame, because only a mere seven pounds separates the light welterweight division where Khan fights and the welterweight division where Brook fights.

If you’re supposedly good enough to unifiy all the light welterweight titles and speak of fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr next year, then Khan should be more than big enough to fight a shorter guy at a catch weight if he needs the handicap or at his weight. I’m pretty sure that Brook would be more than willing to take off some weight to meet Khan at light welterweight or a catch weight. But I think what this comes down to is that Brook is just too good right now, and I think Khan and his handlers don’t want any part of the shifty counter punching Brook.

Brook is a very good puncher, and has power similar to Marcos Maidana but with hand speed to give him the ability to catch up to Khan and punish him with shots. I think what we would see if these two fighters went at it would be Khan getting rocked almost immediately and would find himself having to fight for his life early in the bout instead of the 10th.

There wouldn’t, of course, be referee Joe Cortez to step in to halt the action on the inside because Brook doesn’t fight on the inside like Maidana. Brook fights from every angle – outside and inside. Khan wouldn’t be able to deal with that. If your Khan fans, it’s a good thing that he avoid Brook but sooner or later Khan will face pressure to fight this guy and I see bad things happening to Khan when that day comes unless he avoids him his entire career.