By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is really rolling the dice by putting his fighter IBF International welterweight champion Lee Purdy (19-3-1, 12 KO’s) in with #7 IBF Carson Jones (34-9-2, 24 KO’s) on December 8th at the Olympia, Kensington, in London, United Kingdom. Talk about your risky gambles.

Purdy, 25, stands no chance of winning this fight outside of winning it by an incredibly controversial decision like the one we saw when Carson Jones lost to Hearns’ fighter Kell Brook last July in the UK. Many people this writer included, saw Jones winning that fight quite handily.

Now Hearn wants to put another one of his fighters in with Jones by matching Purdy against him in the UK, and I can’t understand the logic here. I’m not impressed with Brook as a fighter, but I see him as worlds better than Purdy. These two guys are on different levels.

Okay, so if Jones was able to batter Brook for six rounds of the fight and have him out on his feet in the 12th, then what is Hearn thinking of by putting an arguably inferior fighter than Brook in Purdy with Jones? Are we going to see yet another controversial decision? I hope not.

This is going to be a mismatch. Jones is going to punish Purdy and knock him out cold in front of his British fans on December 8th, so I don’t see this as working out well at all for Hearn and Purdy, unless they’re okay with losing.

Jones is a punching machine and reminds me a lot of a younger, smaller version of heavyweight Joe Louis. The punching form that Carson Jones has is something you can’t teach. He just looks a heck of a lot like a smaller Louis. Granted, Jones isn’t the best welterweight in the division but he’s certainly up there in the top five, above Kell Brook and of course Lee Purdy in my estimation.

Jones is a major talent and I see the Purdy fight as more of a stay busy fight than an actual fight. I just hope we don’t see another controversial decision like last time.