By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for undefeated British welterweight contender Kell Brook (28-0, 18 KO’s), sees him as a future pound for pound champion as he moves forward towards his IBF welterweight eliminator bout on Saturday night against Hector David Saldivia (41-2, 32 KO’s) at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Hearn said to Sky Sports News “We want Kell to be a pound for pound world champion…We believe for this fight, Kell has prepared like a pound-for-pound world champion and we think he can deliver a performance that warrants that title.

For some reason Hearn sees Brook as someone capable of being the #1 pound for pound fighter in the sport despite the fact that Brook just finished winning a questionable 12 round majority decision over contender Carson Jones last July in the UK. I don’t know about you, but Brook sure didn’t look like a future pound for pound anything to me. He looked like a future second tier fighter. I’m sorry, Hearn, but I don’t see Brook as getting anywhere near any kind of top pound for pound list, and certainly not at the #1 position.

That’s dreamland stuff. I’m pretty surprised that Hearn is even talking hat kind of nonsense after how truly horrible Brook looked against Carson Jones last July. It’s like having a team member on a track team come in last place and then you’re talking how he’s going to win a gold medal in the near future. Is Hearn’s feet on the ground or what? The logic just isn’t there. If Brook can’t even beat Jones, then how in the heck is he going to be a pound for pound fighter?

I don’t know if Brook even beat Saldivia on Saturday, and I don’t think much of Saldivia at all, period. I see Saldivia as a fighter with a hugely inflated ranking, and who probably belongs in the top 50 or top 60 rather than the #3 spot by the IBF. That’s a ranking I don’t understand given what I’ve seen of Saldivia. He can punch a little, but he’s pretty crude and doesn’t have the power of some of his fellow Argentinians like Lucas Matthysse and Marcos Maidana. Brook has really lucked out in fighting this guy instead of someone like Thomas Dulorme, because I can see Dulorme beating Brook. I’m not so sure about Saldivia because he’s so mediocre.

Brook might not even beat this guy, though, because Brook is more like a six round fighter at best. If he runs out of gas early like he’s been doing, Saldivia is going to pound him and it’s going to be bad for the Brits watching Brook get his face rearranged again like last time he fought.