By Lee Courtney: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio are a class apart. We all accept that, yes? Victor Ortiz has his fans, Juan Manuel Marquez has his. I don’t accept that Victor has a chance against Floyd. Neither does Juan Manuel against Manny.

There is however, another contender out there who, in my humble opinion, would beat, with style, every other fighter at 147. He has a style not seen since Naseem Hamed and a perfect 23-0 (16ko) record. He has limited domestic experience yes, I accept that but only because no-one wants to fight him and Matchroom need to pay the money to get him the exposure in America that he deserves. His name is Kell Brook. He is young, fast, stylish, with dynamite in his gloves and hails from the same stable that produced champions Naseem Hamed and Johnny Nelson among others. He is under the tutelage of Brendan Ingle, a Ring top ten trainer and the grand old man of British boxing. Please don’t let the fact that Naseem was taken to school and ultimately destroyed by the legendary Marco Antonio Barrera, in his prime, taint Kell.

Kell, I’m sure, will be unknown to most of you but if you get the chance to watch him on the 25th June, he is fighting Lovemore N’dou, who has never been stopped. Tune in and behold a fighter that will light up boxing and make people sit up and take notice. People in America have been taken in by Amir Khan, believing him to be the most stylish fighter we have to offer. He most certainly is not.

Amir has run away from a domestic showdown with Kell in the past and his talent is the very reason he hasn’t made it to the big time yet but they cannot prevent him from taking his rightful place in the upper echelons of boxing forever. At 25 he is young enough to be here for a while and replace Floyd and Manny as the biggest draw in the division, when they retire (after their trilogy). I believe he will be the biggest, brightest star in an already twinkling British boxing sky. That may be seem an over optimistic assessment to some of you, being that a lot of our boxers remain mostly unknown outside our shores other than Carl Froch and David Haye (who will be dispatched to retirement by Wladimir Klitschko).

I would urge you to watch the fight on the 25th or have a look at him on the myriad sites which cover boxing and then make a judgement, it would be easy for other fans out there to dismiss this fighter without seeing him in action and claim that your guy, whoever he may be, would beat him. I have seen all the top contenders in this division and for me he beats them all bar the Golden Duo.