Despite the 147lb division being talent-rich, the governing body bizarrely served up the Canadian as Brook’s mandatory challenger and he obliged them by destroying him inside two rounds.
Such one-sided fights do nobody any good – especially not Brook, whose underwhelming run with the IBF gold has comprised just 12 rounds and easy wins over Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin and now Bizier.
A combination of injuries and waiting for Amir Khan are mitigating factors and you can be sure Brook himself will have wanted a higher calibre of opposition.
Now it’s time for that to happen and he may have to make concessions to face the division’s big guns.
Brook has a perfect 36 wins on his record but only two of them have taken place outside the UK.
And since beating Shawn Porter in California to claim his world title, he’s fought in London once and his hometown Sheffield twice.