GLEN Johnson is back on the agenda as a future opponent and I am confident I will beat him despite his shock destruction of Roy Jones junior last weekend.

Promoter Frank Warren, with whom I signed a new contract this week, is speaking to the camp of both Johnson and Antonio Tarver and I just hope he can match me with one of them for the world light-heavyweight championship.

Talk is that the pair will meet in a unification bout (Johnson is the IBF champion and Tarver the WBC, WBA and IBO champion) and if that's what happens, I hope I'll get the chance to meet the winner.

That would be some contest with two world titles at stake and would be sure to make big money, and that's what it is all about.

Johnson has already said he would be prepared to fight me anywhere in the world, even Wales, if the price was right and I hope he's true to his word because he had a different opinion after I had been forced to pull out of my previous scheduled fight with him because of a back injury.

He called me a few names then and said he wouldn't give me another chance, but he's no spring chicken and if the money is on the table, he'll take the fight because he can't go on a lot longer.

One thing I'll say about Johnson is that he has never been afraid to go anywhere or fight anyone, but of course he'll be asking for a lot more money after the way he dealt with Jones.

That result (a 9th round KO) came as a surprise to me, but only in so far as I was surprised how bad Jones was.

He was clearly a spent force, hardly threw a punch all fight and was a shadow of the man I had so admired. He was done for taking drugs a few years ago and you have to wonder whether he's really been the same since.

He's gone from winning the world heavyweight championship to giving three bad performances, including back-to-back KO defeats, and it's sad to see his decline.

As for Johnson, he has shown himself to be a really good fighter. He was well up for the contest, didn't stop throwing punches for nine rounds and didn't take a backward step.

Going into the ninth and what proved to be the last round Jones was 7-1 behind on some scorecards and I wouldn't disagree with that.

Tarver too is a more than decent fighter, but I'm confident I could beat either of them, though I'd prefer to fight Johnson first.

As for my new contract with Warren, I am more than pleased to have signed it as he is the best promoter in the country and remains the most likely person to get me the fights I want.

Regarding my WBO world super-middleweight title defence against Kabary Salem in Edinburgh on October 22, everything's going well.

Training has been excellent, there have been no signs of any problems and I'm looking forward to fighting in Scotland.

I'll probably travel up on the Wednesday before the fight for a few Press conferences and the usual head-to-head with my opponent and then it will just be a case of ticking over and making sure I make the weight without any trouble.

Come fight night, the only trouble will be Salem's for there's no way he's going to take my title from me.

I've got much bigger fish to fry yet.