If Ricky fights the winner of this, I do think we'll once again see the gulf in class between him and the rest of the domestic pack. Not a knock on the rest of the LW boys because its a division that's absolutely buzzing at the minute, but Burns is without a doubt a level above. Mitchell would beat the pair of these and he wasn't able to do anything with Burns.
A big domestic fight would be a good test and put him back on track I'm a big fan of Ricky but his last three outings have not been the best could do with re assessing things rather than another below par performance at world level
So this is likely to happen after you saying Ricky shouldn't be fighting at this level can't understand your logic there
His Logic doesn't decide where and when and who Ricky fights, his promoter and money will do most of the decision.