New WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wood is ready to take on Kid Galahad next summer.
Galahad became the IBF champion in August at Fight Camp, the same night that took his belt from Xu Can.
The pair of them now look on course to meet next summer in a unification bout, but for now Wood is enjoying his success.
“Yeah, it's great. It took a while to sink in, obviously,” he said to the DAZN Boxing Show.
“Something you always look up to is a key when you first walk into the gym. You know, once you've done some fun once you've reached a certain point, you always want more, you want to achieve your maximum potential.
“You don't just want to stop and look back. So I don't want to overthink it too much. I've done what I've set out to do because I've got to keep going, keep achieving and just bring some big fights back to my city.”
One of those fights could be against old sparring partner Galahad.
“I'm smiling now because I know, the experience I've gained, how much progress since leaving the gym is 10 times more than his progress since I was at the gym,” he said of the champion.
“And that's what's gonna make the difference in this fight. I know what he's doing in that gym day in, day out. He hasn't got a clue what I'm doing, that's going to be my power going into the fight with him next summer.”