My amazing week

And now there's the prospect of an even more fantastic occasion - a superfight against another of the world's biggest names in boxing, possibly at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.

If promoter Frank Warren could get a big summer show there it would be absolutely amazing both for me and for Wales and if anyone can pull it off, it''s Frank.

It's always been an ambition of mine to fight there and it would have been brilliant if the stadium had been available for the Jeff Lacy world super-middleweight unification fight, but Manchester was fantastic.

There are a lot of superb Welsh fighters around at the moment with myself and Enzo Maccarinelli as world champions and Gary Lockett probably going to add the WBU middleweight crown to the list at the weekend.

There are also a lot of others coming through and everything is looking up for Welsh boxing and I think people would come from all over to watch us all in action in Cardiff. Regarding the Lacy fight, I've been amazed at the response in the Press, particularly the great coverage in the Argus, and from the public and I'm enjoying it.

I knew I'd fought at my very best and dominated the contest, but when you hear the acclaim and people saying it was the best performance seen in a British ring then it's truly amazing. Obviously winning is always the main thing, but to win in the style I did was a dream. Don't forget, I was under a lot of pressure. I'd been champion for eight years, it was my career defining fight and had I not performed on the night it would have been disastrous. But spurred on by the fantastic crowd it all fell into place.

I knew I had that performance in me, I just needed the right opponent to bring it out and unfortunately for Lacy it was him.

I'd be lying if I said I thought it would be as easy as it was - to go in and have a complete shut-out against another champion who's highly-rated was a surprise.

But I went into the fight with a game plan, the idea not to stand toe-to-toe, to keep my hands up and to be careful in defence because I knew he was a big puncher.

It was the most focused I have ever been, even more focused than when I won the title against Chris Eubank.

Mentally, I was right up for it and physically, to keep up that work rate, I was tremendously fit.

After three rounds when I went back to the corner my dad shouted at me to calm down a bit and to pace myself because I'd set such a furious tempo.

But I was able to keep it going and dictate the fight with my footwork and my jab and when I threw my combinations he had no answer to my hand speed.

I said before the fight that hand speed and footwork would be the key and that he would not be prepared for the number of blows he would have to take and he had no answer. I think his team were over-confident, believed their own hype and underestimated me, saying I couldn't punch and lacked heart, and that worked in my favour.

I think Lacy was shocked and after a couple of rounds you could tell by the look on his face that he was bamboozled and that his corner didn't know what to do.

And it wasn't just that he was being outboxed. He was being outfought. His punches didn't bother me. He didn't connect. I was in total control.

If I'm honest I have to say I sensed a bit in Lacy's body language at the main big-fight press conference that he was maybe not as confident as his camp claimed.

That's when you try to stamp your authority and show you are boss, but he was very quiet whereas in previous interviews he was talking a lot.

Maybe the reality of being away from home and fighting in front of a partisan crowd contributed to tha,t plus the realisation of having to face someone who had been champion for eight years.

But I think Lacy will come back.

Whether he'll be the same fighter I'm not sure, but he's not going to be fighting Joe Calzaghe again is he?

He's shown he can dominate other fighters, but I'm the best in the business, head and shoulders above everyone else.

Physically he'll recover but mentally it will be tough because when your confidence is damaged in this game it's hard.

The hammering he took was probably worse than a knock-out because when a fighter is KO'd he can say 'OK, I just got caught', but the way he was systematically beat up for 12 rounds is bound to leave its mark.

I'm sure his handlers will get him a couple of easy fights to try to get that confidence back and I have to give him credit for the heart he showed in hanging in.

As for me, I'm just going to chill out now and enjoy things, take a break in the sun, rest my badly bruised left hand, and then return to talk business next week or the week after.