By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook (24-0, 16 KO’s) is continuing his painfully slow climb up to the top to an eventual title shot against somebody. The 25-year-old Brook has still yet to face a live body after seven long years of facing almost exclusively C level opposition.

Recently, Brook stepped it up against lower B level fighters in beating 40-year-old Lovemore N’dou last June.

Instead of really stepping it up against an excellent opponent, Brook is taking on 34-year-old fringe contender Rafael Jackiewicz (38-9-1, 19 KO’s) on October 8th at the Ponds Forge Arena, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK.

The idea by taking on the little known Jackiewicz, who was recently easily beaten by International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion Jan Zaveck, is to use a vitory over this guy to try and get a title shot against WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko. I seriously doubt that Senchenko is going to fight Brook, so he’s probably wasting his time pining away for a fight against that guy.

The other option is a fight against the winner of the IBF welterweight fight between champion Zaveck and challenger Andre Berto. I can see Brook getting a fight against the winner of that fight if Zaveck wins it, but not if Berto does. He won’t waste time fighting a guy like Brook, because no one in the United States would likely be even slightly interested in seeing a fight between Berto and Brook.

That’s mostly Brook’s fault because if he had been facing A level fighters all these years instead of the over-matched unknown fodder opponents he’s been facing, he’d be better known among the casual boxing fans and they would know who he is. Anyway, a Berto-Brook fight is a huge mismatch because Berto is a lot better than Brook in my view. Berto would be doing Brook a favor by not fighting him and slaughtering him.