Conor Benn could fight boxing legend Manny Pacquiao early in 2027.
Benn revealed to Sky Sports that he had been offered a December bout with Pacquiao.
But after the rigours of making welterweight and suffering a stoppage loss to Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas in September, he wasn't able to box Pacquiao next month.
He hopes though to restart talks to have the fight with Pacquiao in the first quarter of 2027.
"He's an all-time legend. He's an eight-division world champion, he's an all-time, he'll go down in the history books," Benn told Sky Sports, before adding: "Another stadium show sounds nice.
"I know the Pacquiao fight was offered to me for December. And I wasn't ready to get the fight done in December. But if he wants it Q1 next year, we can do Pacquiao," he revealed.
"The fight got presented to me for December and it was just too soon, making weight, got a newborn son, so for me it was really about spending time with my family."
But he added: "If Q1, he wants to get it on again, I'm interested.
"Always in the gym, always working, if he wants it Q1 next year, we can do it, no problem."
Garcia, the WBC welterweight champion, stopped Benn inside two rounds in the Briton's first world title challenge. "It's a hard pill to swallow," Benn acknowledged.
"To give 100 per cent in everything I do, I always want to be victorious. No one likes losing. You always want to come first place. So for me it's just one of those things, you go swimming, you get wet. And I always said I want to be in exciting fights and if I get caught, I get caught."
Garcia dropped him heavily though Benn was back on his feet when the stoppage came. He did not however criticise the referee for ending the fight.
"It's hard to say. I mean, listen I respect the referee and it's the referee's job to keep the fighter safe," he said.
"Obviously me knowing my style and who I am, would I have liked to let the fight carry on, of course, but I'm not going to argue with the referee, he was there to do his job and he did his job.
"If he didn't think I was fit to continue that was his call on the night. Ultimately, as I say, you swimming you get wet. You keep it moving."
He however won't fight at welterweight again. "I don't know what I was thinking making 147lbs. You think right now I'm 185, 186lbs," he noted.
"Making 147, a lot of people said I can't do it and of course the inner me was: 'Alright cool, you can't do it - watch me.' It's one thing making the weight and it's one thing performing at your best at the weight. And you know it showed, I paid the price for chasing greatness.
"My future's at middleweight. I thought about light-middle, there's nothing in me at light-middle either - that's how bad the weight cut was.
"There's no excuses, Ryan is a phenomenal fighter, caught me with a phenomenal shot and he was the better man on the night.
"I dust it all off, dust the cobwebs off and come back and be a better version of myself."
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