I’ve never lost a professional fight, so I’ve no idea how bad that feels.

 

But if it’s as big a downer as training for a fight that doesn’t happen, then it must be pretty rough.

 

I worked my nuts off to be in prime shape to defend my world title against Anthony Cacace and then the fight was binned through no fault of mine, or Cacace’s.

 

An injury to Tyson Fury – who was scheduled to top the bill against Oleksandr Usyk on the same night in Saudi Arabia – meant the whole event was postponed.

 

It’s all been rearranged for May 18 – same bill, same opponent – by which time I’ll have plenty of frustration to offload.

 

These things happen. But boxers don’t get sick pay, even when it’s someone else who gets sick.

 

If we don’t fight, then we don’t get paid. It’s as simple as that. So, even though I shelled out for my training camp in the US, and for all the expenses that went with it, I don’t see a penny come back until after the new date.

 

That’s not the worst of it, though. It’s the wasted emotional energy.

 

I was away from my family for weeks, with no end product. Now, I’ve got to go through all that slog of training away from them, all those missed days with my kids, to get my mind and body back to the same point I was at when the original date was scrapped.

 

That’s tough.

 

But I’ll knuckle down, and I’ll do it because I want to stay unbeaten and realise my dreams.

 

Those remain the same as they were before the original date for the contest in February – to have three or four big money fights and retire unbeaten.

 

Increasingly, it looks as though I may have to move up from super-featherweight to achieve those ambitions.

 

If I’m not able to get unification fights, then I need to look elsewhere.

 

The truth is that there are now bigger, more profitable fights for me at lightweight.

 

I’d be very comfortable at making that step up. It feels a natural one for me at this stage of my career.

 

I fought at that weight earlier in my boxing journey and was a British and Commonwealth champion in that category.

 

It was only because I felt my power at super-featherweight would be too much for a lot of fighters that I moved down a weight.

 

Now, though, I think I’d have the same relative power at lightweight, so it makes sense to think about the switch. I’m a bigger puncher, so fighting against bigger opponents wouldn’t be an issue.

 

There are some proper names operating at lightweight – like Gervonta Davis and Shakur Stevenson – and the prospect of big fights in that division is appealing.

 

My ultimate ambition would be to have those big, money-spinning fights, and then finish my career with two more shows in Cardiff – maybe one at Cardiff Arms Park and another at Cardiff City.

 

I realise though, that not many fighters get to write their own scripts, and that there’s so much in this sport that’s unpredictable and out of the fighter’s control.

 

One fight that’s pretty unlikely is me fighting O’Shaquie Foster.

 

Pro boxing is about making fights the public want to see, and the truth is Foster has no following in the US.

 

If people don’t want to see a fight, then the money looks elsewhere.