JAMIE Cox has said that he would knock new WBA Super world super-middleweight champion Felix Sturm out in less than three minutes.

The Swindon southpaw is on the cusp on a world title shot after winning the WBO European title last year.

The former Commonwealth light-middleweight champion, who scored three first round knock-outs in 2015, is ranked fourth with the WBO and 15th with the WBA.

Having watched Sturm become a two-weight world champion at the weekend with a controversial majority decision over Russia’s Fedor Chudinov, the 29-year-old is eager to get the new king in the ring.

“It was a disgusting decision, for me Chudinov won by eight rounds – but that is what you get in Germany,” Cox told the Advertiser.

“He (Sturm) can have a million judges, but I will knock him out and don’t be surprised if I did it in the first round.

“Chudinov was a great champion, he travelled all over the world, but Sturm won’t come out of Germany - I’ll go over there and knock him out.”

Cox, who has not fought since making the successful defence of his WBO European belt in November, is hoping that his promoter Frank Warren will secure his dream world title shot.

“I’m sure that Frank is on the case. This is what I’m waiting for. I’m training twice a day working towards a big fight,” said Cox. “I have great team behind me in my trainer John Costello and conditioning coach Des Witter.

“I will win a world title this year – guaranteed.”

Cox’s promoter Warren says that former champion Chudinov and his team are planning to appeal the decision, but backs his 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist to beat either the Russian or Sturm.

“Chudinov and his promoters are more than a tad peeved, and have filed an official protest to the WBA,” Warren told www.frankwarren.com “The 37-year-old Sturm, an immensely popular figure in Germany, broadly hints that he may now retire having achieved his goal of becoming a five-times world champion, saying it would be ‘a nice way’ to sign off a great career.

“If that’s the case our man Cox should be paired with Chudinov for the vacant title; it’s a natural match-up and one which we will try and make happen.

“Alternatively the southpaw slugger from Swindon would be happy to go to Germany to fight Sturm as his next challenger.

“Fear of foreign parts is not in Jamie’s psyche, for he believes he has sufficient dynamite in his fists to put the result against Sturm, Chudinov or any of the best super-middleweights –at home or abroad – beyond question.”