British super-bantamweight James 'Jazza' Dickens insists he is unfazed by the prospect of facing Guillermo Rigondeaux.
Rigondeaux (16-0-KO10) is considered the best fighter in the division and is expected to take on the winner of Carl Frampton v Scott Quigg - but Dickens (21-1-KO6) is planning to wreck those plans and announce himself on the world stage.
In an interview reported on World Boxing News, Dickens said of the Cuban: "People have already told me that I have no chance of beating him but when I look in another man's eyes I can see he's just the same as me.
"I'm a man and he's a man; we both feel courage and we both feel fear. On the night we'll be stepping in the ring as equals and I believe I have what it takes to beat him; I wouldn't have taken the fight if I didn't.
"I remember walking into the gym for the very first time and thinking 'I want to be a world champion'. My Dad used to ask me to go down there with him but I was obsessed with football up until the age of twelve.
"As soon as I hung up my boots and stepped into the ring something came over me. There was a picture of the legendary John Conteh on the wall wearing his WBC belt and I said to my Dad 'that's going to be me'.
"Boxing was an escape from life. I got a massive rush every time I laced up my gloves and I was receiving praise for hard work for the first time in my life so it really drove me on to succeed. The coaches from my youth played a massive role in getting me to where I am today and I'm very thankful to them for giving their time up for free.
"I wasn't born in a bad area but there wasn't much going on there for kids to get involved in once they reached their teens. I was just lucky and blessed that I had the talent to put a pair of gloves on instead of getting involved in petty crime."
Dickens takes on Rigondeaux on March 12 at Liverpool's Echo Arena on the undercard of Terry Flanagan's rearranged WBO world lightweight title defence against Derry Mathews.