Raphael Akpejiori is one of several new faces to the professional heavyweight scene looking to keep the division's revival going in the coming years, but in the here and now he wants to help current WBC champion Tyson Fury conquer WBA, WBO and IBF titleholder Anthony Joshua in their expected clash of the titans this summer.
Akpejiori stands six feet, eight inches tall and is 6-0 with all of those wins coming via finish since debuting in Rhode Island in September 2018. His first four fights were first-round wipeouts, and his last two made it as far as the second round.
He hasn't fought since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, but as his team continue their efforts to get him back in the ring, the 30-year-old has ideas of his own for work in the first half of the new year.
"Right now Miami is a hotbed for heavyweight boxing training," Akpejiori told Sky Sports. "We have Christian here. We have Ivan Dychko here. At some point, we had Bakhodir Jalolov here. We had Filip Hrgovic here, Cassius Chaney here.
"If [Fury] wants to come to Miami to spar, he is guaranteed to have high-quality sparring. It would be a great place for him.
"If he wants to fight someone with devastating knockout power and he wants to prep for that, then he is going to have to come spar with me and with Christian, or the other heavyweights that are here. Especially me.
"It's a great place for him, he should consider it."
Akpejiori, like Joshua, is of Nigerian descent. He is currently training under respected former world light-heavyweight champion Glengoffe Johnson, who plans to make Miami a fight sport hot bed with the help of rising talents such as the KO artist.
"Knockouts is what people come to see," continued Akpejiori. "Even though they come to see a boxing fight, they want to see someone get laid out.
"That's something I'm good at and I've always been good at doing.
"For me to get to that next level, the Anthony Joshua level, Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder and Oleksandr Usyk level, I really have to learn how to box in a very hostile situation and possibly get the knockout, but get to box and show a lot of maturity through a whole 12-round period.
"If the knockout comes, perfect. It always comes to me in spectacular fashion, but the goal is to develop and grow as a boxer with each fight."