I'll chop woods

If he does, a world-title clash between Woods and myself in the summer or autumn would be awesome.

Woods has been the best light-heavyweight in this country for a few years now and I'm the best super-middleweight in the world, so it would be a natural fight and one I'd be prepared to give up my current title to take.

Rest assured, if he does win the contest, I'll be the first to issue him with a challenge.

Woods has called me out a couple of times and obviously feels he could beat me and promoter Frank Warren is confident he could make the match.

As for me, it would enable me to fulfil my ambition to be a double world champion because I know I would destroy the Yorkshireman.

I have known Woods for a long time and I've always known I would beat him.

Nevertheless, he deserves to win a world title as it will be his fourth attempt and his previous challenges were against the once great Roy Jones junior and against the evergreen and popular Glen Johnson.

He drew with Johnson one one occasion and failed narrowly against him on the other and Johnson has gone on to defeat Antonio Tarver to become number one in the light-heavy division.

I have to be honest and say if I had the chance again, and I unfortunately had to pull out against him previously, I would prefer to fight Johnson.

I know, if Woods wins, our fight would be for the second world title I want, but there are so many world title nowadays with so many self-appointed world governing bodies that they no longer mean as much.

Johnson is the best light-heavy in the world, I want to fight the best and so I would happily meet him in a non-title fight.

Another possibility, if a Woods or Johnson fight doesn't materialise, remains a return against WBO interim super-middleweight champion Mario Veit.

I'm not keen, having destroyed the German once inside a round, but the WBO could order me to make a mandatory defence and if nothing else was in the offing, rules are rules and I'd have to face him.

He probably figures that he has improved since our last meeting (it remains his only defeat) and that I have gone back but, I can assure you, if he came over to meet me again, he would get another caning.

But a lot of this talk is counting chickens because first Woods has to beat Hoye and secondly, I have to beat Belfast's Brian Magee at the Kings Hall a fortnight tonight in the 16th defence of my title.

Woods should win. He is a good fighter who can take a good punch and proved his heart and stamina against Jones and Johnson and tonight could be his crowning moment.

But Hoye is a big puncher and a tall, rangy individual with an 18-0 winning record and, though he hasn't really been tested, he shouldn't be underestimated, though he doesn't have Woods' big-fight experience and Woods has home advantage.

As for me, I am taking the Magee fight very seriously after failing to impress against Kabary Salem last time out when I underestimated him and fell from my high standards.

I have been training harder than ever because I want to make amends for that performance with a top class display in Ireland and I'm confident of taking Magee clean out.

Another big fight this weekend is that between IBF super-middleweight champion Jeff Lacy and Rubin Williams in Las Vegas.

Lacy could be a rival for me in a year or so's time, but meanwhile he is rightly picking up experience and money with some easier defences of his title.

He's a sensible guy and even though he struggled before defeating Omar Sheika last time out, I don't believe his handlers would put him in against Williams if they thought for one minute he could lose.

Lacy fought Williams three times as an amateur, beating him twice, and though there is a big difference between amateur and professional boxing, I expect Lacy to come through comfortably.