Ajetovic wants win by knock-out

Ajetovic is looking for an early win in Sydney

Kirkby-based Serbian middleweight Geard Ajetovic has vowed to knock-out Australian IBO champion Daniel Geale when the pair meet on Friday night.

The 27-year-old is challenging for the champion's title in Sydney.

"I am 100% confident that I'm going to come back with the belt. I am going to stop him," Ajetovic told BBC Radio Merseyside.

"He can spar who he wants, I really don't care because I am going to beat him. That's all."

Geale is a rising star in Australian Boxing.

He has won all of his 18 fights as a professional, with 12 of those wins coming by knock-out.

This is my big, big opportunity for the whole world to see me and probably in a couple of more fights, fight in Las Vegas Geard Ajetovic

As an amateur Ajetovic boxed for Serbia and the former Yugoslavia for 14 years, winning 11 national titles and he believes his and Geale's paths may have crossed before.

"I've been going through my memory and I'm sure I fought him in my amateur days and I beat him."

The former Olympian of the 2000 games in Sydney knows that his World Title opportunity is too good to waste.

"That's changing everything [winning]. That's changing my life, changing my family's life.

"This is my big, big opportunity for the whole world to see me and probably in a couple of more fights, fight in Las Vegas.

"That's my dream."