Billy Joe Saunders insists he will not price himself out of fighting world middleweight No. 1 Gennady Golovkin.
Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) has not fought since he won the WBO world middleweight title from Irishman Andy Lee via points in December.
But promoter Frank Warren is lining up a first defence for Saunders against either Russian Artur Akavov (16-1, 7 KOs) or American Rob Brant (21-0, 14 KOs) on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko II at the Manchester Arena on October 29.
Akavov and Brant are ranked 11th and 7th by the WBO respectively and as long as Saunders is successful and unification fight with Golovkin is being planned for February 2017.
At the start of the year, Golovkin's team made Saunders an offer -- believed to be £2.2million -- to face the Kazakh knockout machine in a world title unification clash.
But Saunders, 27 turned it down because he wanted more to fight Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs), the WBA-WBC-IBF world middleweight champion.
"I'm ready to fight him [Golovkin] where ever, in England, in America or in a field," said Saunders, who has been kept out of action by a hand injury. "There's nothing that can get in the way of stopping this. I'm not pricing myself out, I will fight any man born.
"I'm fighting on October 29. Give me a week and I will fight him then. As long as I can shake my ring rust off in this next one I will fight him then."
Golovkin, 34, stopped Saunders' fellow Briton Kell Brook in five rounds in London last Saturday to stretch run of consecutive knockouts to 23.
But Saunders insists he was encouraged by what he saw of Golovkin, who is regarded as the most feared boxer in the world.
"Everyone is raving about him but I took a lot of confidence from what I saw at the weekends," Saunders said.
"I'm a fully fledged middleweight and not a blown up welterweight. Kell was up on the scorecards and showed a lot of heart and will. His corner were right to pull him out. Kell did well and established himself and all my credit goes to him.
"Golovkin did what he had should have but I see stuff that I can certainly capitalise on. People are beat before they get in the ring with him. But it is definitely not like that with me. He's had it rough but so have I. I've been dragged up.
"He's a good puncher, a good puncher and has a good chin. But he's a man and he's definitely beatable."
Warren has already began talks with Golovkin's promoter Tom Loeffler, but the California-based Kazakh is first being lined up to face American Daniel Jacobs in November.
"There's will on both side to make that fight happen and I would prefer it in Britain," said Warren. "The money that was offered last time was not enough. We felt he should get more money. Now Golovkin has fought in the UK, think those numbers are achievable."