By Miguel Rivera

WBC lightweight champion Mikey Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) is interested in moving up in weight by the end of this or early 2018.

He came back in January with a vicious third round knockout of unbeaten Dejan Zlaticanin to capture the WBC title - which was Garcia's third divisional belt.

The next fight on Garcia's hit list is a potential unification with WBA world champion Jorge Linares - hopefully some time in the summer.

The eventual path is to climb up to junior welterweight to pursue a fourth title, and the top dog in that division is WBO, WBC world champion Terence Crawford (30-0, 21 KOs).

Crawford is back on May 20, then he defends his titles against Olympic gold medal winner Felix Diaz at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Garcia lost to Crawford in the amateurs, but he would love to even the score in the professional ranks. By the time Garcia arrives at 140, Crawford could very well be fighting at the welterweight limit of 147. 

"Of course [I would want fight him], he is the man in that division. If at any point I decide to make the leap [to 140-pounds] and he is there - I am interested. He's a fighter with good reach, height, changes his guard, so it would be a good fight. I see a lot of studying in the first half [of the contest], but the second half would have more action in the fight," Garcia told ESPN Radio.

Garcia has a deep undefeated record, but says he is not focused in any way on matching the 49-0 unbeaten streak of Floyd Mayweather. He only wants to collect more and more world titles.

"No [that's not a focus for me]. My goal is not to achieve a certain number of victories in order to retire. My objective is to add world titles and then go up to another division and start again by adding more titles, and continue doing this for as far as I can," Garcia said.