Despite only just moving up to heavyweight after vacating his WBC bridgerweight title, Lawrence Okolie has announced that he has no intentions of just taking part in his new division.
This comes after the surprising news that the WBC has entered Okolie into their rankings at number five.
Moreover, he has recently signed a new promotional deal with Queensbury Promotions and Frank Warren.
This is significant as Warren’s heavyweight stable is arguably better than any other promoters in the world.
Okolie joins the likes of Fury, Dubois, Parker, Zhang, Itauma and Wardley.
The former two-weight world champion has struggled with momentum in his career.
Okolie then went on to lose his WBO cruiserweight world title against former stable-mate Chris Billam-Smith.
Since then, he moved up to bridgerweight where he won the WBC bridgerweight title after knocking out Łukasz Różański in the first round.
At 6’5 Okolie has always had to cut weight, so now after announcing his move up to heavyweight he is relishing the opportunity to finally fight at his natural weight.
Speaking to talkSPORT he has revealed his plans for his career moving forward.
”I hope to have a fight before the end of the year because I need to have a fight as I haven’t fought since May,” he said.
”Straight after that I want to face someone in the top five and then we will go straight into a world heavyweight title fight.”
”I’m looking at summer next year to be a world champion again, three-weight world champion, why not?”.
This shows that Okolie is not short of any confidence and is keen to accelerate his career after struggling to find any rhythm previously.
The heavyweight landscape is set to change again come December 21st when Tyson Fury faces Oleksandr Usyk in their much anticipated rematch.
With Anthony Joshua carrying an apparent injury, it will be interesting to see who IBF world champion Daniel Dubois fights next.
Lawrence Okolie certainly is ambitious and if he can find some momentum, he could be a real problem within the division.
Boxing Social is now on WhatsApp! Join our channel by clicking here and getting all the latest boxing news direct to your phone.