JAMIE Cox will defend his WBO European super-middleweight title as he tops the bill at the Harrow Leisure Centre on Friday October 30.

The unbeaten southpaw, who won the title in the summer, is finding opponents in the 168lb division hard to come by with promoter Frank Warren offering fights to Chris Eubank Jr, Spike O’Sullivan; undefeated Mexican hot-shot Gilberto Ramirez, former European champion Christopher Rebrasse as well as Australians Blake Caparello and Rohan Murdoch – all of whom have turned the chance to fight Cox.

But despite this Cox is excited to return to action again.

"It just shows the reputation that I’m building in the division and these fighters can’t keep running away forever, sooner or later I’ll get them,” Cox said.

“I know that I can beat the likes of Eubank Jr, O’Sullivan, Ramirez and co, right now and they know it. I’ll continue to win and do what I do and stay on my own course and I’ll become a world champion, I’ve no doubts about that,”

“I’m currently ranked number eight in the WBO and I’m moving upwards. The funny thing is Caparello and Ramirez are both ahead of me, Caparello at five and Ramirez at one, I’m not scared to put my ranking or unbeaten record on the line to prove how good I am.”

A name that does excite Cox is Russian hitman Fedor Chudinov, the WBA World Champion, who defeated Frank Buglioni last month and Cox has no reservations about what he would do to him.

“I’d love a crack at Chudinov, if we do ever meet I’d expect to knock him out,” added Cox.

“Frank put on a brave performance against him, Chudinov is a good, strong fighter, but I know what his weaknesses are. I was trained by a Russian coach in the amateurs and I know that style well.

“I’d have no hesitation in taking a fight against Chudinov right now. I’m in this business to be a world champion.”