It'S great to be back home after proving that Joe Calzaghe is still the number one super-middleweight boxer in the world.

The Mario Veit WBO title defence went exactly as I said it would in my last Argus column and my thoughts have already turned to my next fight.

Despite all the talk about an Autumn unification bout with IBF world champion Jeff Lacy, that's unlikely to be next on the agenda.

First of all, I can't see that fight materialising before next year.

If you think about it, Lacy doesn't fight Robin Reid until August and realistically I can't see him fighting straight after that. He'll probably have three or four months off.

Reid's a good fighter and I think that bout will go the distance anyway. Either way, Lacy will want a rest. So I'm not going to wait until the American's ready and I expect to make a voluntary defence before the year's out.

I don't want another six or seven months out of the ring, especially at my age (33).

In the past, for one reason or another, mainly injuries (and I'm nursing a badly bruised left hand after the Veit fight), I've not fought as much as I've wanted and three fights in two years is definitely not enough.

In addition, I proved against Veit that I'm still right at the top of the tree and I want to carry on fighting while I'm still in great shape.

I was over the moon with my performance, but I'm not sure how it rates compared with some of my other displays because I haven't had the chance to see the fight on tape myself yet.

But I was sharp and because some people had questioned whether I was still at my best, I really wanted to make a statement and show I still have a hunger for the fight game.

Mentally I was perfect. That's why I looked so relaxed and was smiling when I went into the ring. I knew I couldn't lose.

I said I would stop Veit in the middle to late rounds and I did, using my speed and boxing skills to break him up.

I knew he'd made plans to avoid my big left hand, so in sparring I worked hard on my right hand and though he was always moving away from my left I countered with fast rights which he wasn't prepared for.

I got a bit cocky and dropped my hands a few times, but I knew as soon as I dropped him with a left hook at the end of the fifth round he was a goner.

I'm a great finisher when I've got an opponent going and I stepped it up straight away in the sixth and that was that.

My biggest disappointment was that my fans weren't able to see the fight on television.

In a way I feel it was a bit disrespectful of the various TV companies not to show it. I am Britain's best and longest-reigning world champion after all.

It shows the state boxing is in at the moment with fewer and fewer top fights being screened and in that respect I'm glad my career is nearer the end than the beginning.

But I think the fight will be shown on Eurosport some time in the next week, so my supporters will be able to make up their own minds about my display.

Another disappointment was the suggestion by some pundits that I should stop fighting at super-middleweight and concentrate on fighting at light-heavyweight in future.

That's just not realistic. Unless I were to get an immediate title shot it would simply not be worth my while financially and I'm not prepared to fight for peanuts at this stage of my career.

I'd love nothing more than to win a second world title and I'd love Frank Warren to get me a shot at the light-heavyweight crown.

But the problem is that the fighters at that weight don't want to risk facing me, including new IBF champion Clinton Woods.

I still desperately want a career-defining fight soon, before I go over the top, because it would be sad to finish my career without having achieved that.

A Lacy fight would be a unification fight but not a career-defining fight because he's no better a fighter than Byron Mitchell or a few others I've fought.

And it won't be a big money fight because Lacy is not that big a name even in his own country.

Glen Johnson remains the man I want, but many obstacles remain and only time will tell whether a win over him proves to be a crowning achievement.

Finally, can I mention Saturday's return fight in Bolton between Cuban world and Olympic amateur champion Mario Kindelan and Britain's Amir Khan, whom he defeated 30-22 on points in the Olympic final.

Some people have suggested the return is a waste of time and that Khan will lose again.

Whatever the outcome, the fight (being shown live on ITV) is great exposure for Khan and he has nothing to lose.

He hasn't turned pro yet and he's making more headlines than any professional boxer. In terms of his future, that's certainly no waste of time.