By Scott Gilfoid: It was both funny and sad to see Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KO’s), dreaming up a hoped for scenario where newly crowned IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KO’s) will vacate his title and then let Hearn’s fighter Brook fight for the vacant IBF strap against whoever. Hearn honestly thinks that Alexander won’t want to fight Brook because he thinks it’ll be too tough a fight for him or it won’t be worth the little money that the fight would bring in if it were staged in the United States.

Hearn said to reporter Kugan Cassius at iFILM London “I wouldn’t be surprised if Devon Alexander relinquished the world title. I don’t believe he’ll be chomping at the bit to fight Kell Brook…That might happen with Jamie McDonnell as well because Leo Santa Cruz [the IBF bantamweight champion] may move up.”

Hearn went onto say that he’ll work hard at getting Alexander to come over to the UK to fight Brook in Sheffield rather than coming to the U.S to fight the champion in what is normally the traditional way it’s done. Hearn doesn’t see it easy getting Alexander to come to the UK, though. In that case, Hearn said Brook would then come over to the U.S to fight Alexander, but Hearn then started with the make believe stuff about Alexander possibly vacating his IBF title before Brook had to come over to fight him. It just sounded like the most hopeless of dreams by Hearn and I was surprised he was wasting time even talking about it.

First off, Alexander isn’t going to vacate his IBF title just to avoid a slow fighter like Brook, who has been carefully matched against consistently weak opposition for his entire 8-year pro career. And as far as Santa Cruz vacating his IBF bantamweight title in order to avoid his pillow punching mandatory challenger Jamie McDonnell, that’s not happening either. Santa Cruz is going to stay the IBF champion and he’s going to tear the light hitting McDonnell to bits. Here’s what I think happens.

Hearn is going to have McDonnell avoid that fight with Santa Cruz like the plague and have him instead have him continue to fight the weak domestic level opposition that he’s been fighting for much of his career. Believe me, if Hearn puts McDonell in with Santa Cruz it’s going to be like Custer’s land stand. We’re talking a massacre, and it doesn’t matter if Hearn lures Santa Cruz over to the UK for the fight to happen, because Santa Cruz will take both the referee and the judges out of the fight by knocking McDonnell out cold.

There won’t be any controversial decisions like there was when American Carson Jones came over to fight Kell Brook last July. McDonell is going to get knocked out and there’s not much Hearn can do about it, because all the hoping and praying that he can do about Santa Cruz maybe vacating isn’t going to happen.

Devon Alexander won’t avoid the Kell Brook fight, because he’ll have no problem beating this six round fighter. If Hearn wants to give Alexander a ton of money to bring him over to the UK then so be it, but it’s not going to change the outcome of the fight. Alexander is going to box Brook’s head off and likely knock him out.