Thursday 29 June 2017 15:43, UK
Frank Buglioni doesn't think there is a light-heavyweight in Britain who can beat him, including WBA champion Nathan Cleverly.
Buglioni (19-2-1-KO15) hopes a win over Ricky Summers (13-0-KO5), live on Sky Sports on Saturday night, can propel him towards a clash with the Welshman, who claimed the world strap from Juergen Braehmer last October.
He is defending the British title he won in a fight-of-the-year contender against Hosea Burton in December, and a rematch with Burton could be on the cards before he gets the chance to take on Cleverly.
Buglioni, who lost his first world title challenge against Fedor Chudinov, said: "There's no light-heavyweight in Britain that can beat me, including Cleverly, so line them up.
"It's a new chapter in my career. Hosea is above British level and I beat him so I think that shows how good I am. I want to win the Lord Lonsdale belt outright and then move onto European and world honours.
"[Robert] Stieglitz is the European champion and that'd be a great fight but I'm not sure that going to Germany against a German fighter is something what I would want. Bringing him to London would be great, but he'd want a lot of money.
"Nathan has got a lovely jab and a good work rate, but he can go macho and get drawn into a war and there's flaws in him. He trained with Don Charles for a few weeks so Don knows him inside-out which is bad for Nathan.
"Don is a real scholar of the sport and when he knows you inside-out, he knows how to unlock the door.
"Winning the Lord Lonsdale belt outright hasn't been done at light-heavyweight for a long time.
"The guys that have won it recently - Nathan Cleverly, Tony Bellew, Clinton Woods - they're great fighters, so it's brilliant to be in those types of names and to win it outright would be a real honour. But if something bigger presents itself, you have to look at the bigger picture.
"I know what I have got to do to beat Hosea. I've taken his best and his hard shots, but that wasn't me at my best. Now I am the champion, he's got to leave Manchester and come to my hometown where he'd be outnumbered and he's got the demons in his head now as he knows he can be KO'd by me and he knows he can't hurt me.
"I'd love that fight and I think the fans would but I don't think it would be as entertaining as the first one, it'd be more one-sided and get him out of there early. I have to fight my mandatory around September so if it's not Hosea, he might not get the fight."
Watch Frank Buglioni against Ricky Summers this Saturday night, with Joshua Buatsi, Conor Benn, Lawrence Okolie, Ted Cheeseman and Reece Bellotti also in action at The 02, from 7.30pm on Sky Sports 1.
