By Keith Idec

Jarrett Hurd has enough difficulty shrinking down to 154 pounds that the thought of fighting at the middleweight limit is pretty appealing.

There are plenty of high-profile opponents at 160 pounds, too, which would help Hurd earn more money as a middleweight. The IBF/IBO/WBA 154-pound champion still wants to become the undisputed champion in his division.

Reaching that goal will help keep the 6-feet-1 Hurd at 154 pounds – at least for now.

“I definitely wanna be undisputed,” Hurd said during a recent conference call. “It depends because I’m such a big junior middleweight. Every fight, man, it’s more and more difficult to make the weight. Even though I come in under weight – my last fight I was 152, when I fought against [Jason] Welborn. It’s just that I’m putting on more weight in between fights. And even though I’m making it, to me, I don’t think it’s healthy to be dropping that amount of weight for a fight. I still feel strong, but I think there’s more opportunity at 160 for me, too.”

If Hurd can fend off Julian Williams’ challenge Saturday night, he’ll pursue title unification fights against the winner of the Tony Harrison-Jermell Charlo rematch or WBO junior middleweight champ Jaime Munguia.

Hurd has already beaten Harrison, who’ll try to top Charlo again in their rematch for Harrison’s WBC super welterweight title June 23 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas (FOX).

Mexico’s Munguia is affiliated with Golden Boy Promotions, which streams his fights on DAZN. That could make putting together a Hurd-Munguia match troublesome.

Hurd, Harrison and Charlo are advised by Al Haymon. Their fights are televised either by FOX or Showtime as part of Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions series.

“I think the junior middleweight division’s pretty much has fought everyone,” Hurd said. “And there’s a lot of people at 160, bigger fights for me. So, I mean, it all depends. You know, I wanna sit around for the WBO and the WBC. But if it don’t present an opportunity for me, I’ll move up and I won’t become undisputed.”

When pressed about whether he’ll fight at 160 pounds by this time next year, Hurd was noncommittal.

“It all depends,” Hurd said. “It’s hard to say. I wanna say no, because I’d rather stick around for the WBO and the WBC. I wanna say no, but if it looks like it’s not gonna present itself any type of way, then maybe so.”

The 28-year-old Hurd (23-0, 16 KOs), of Accokeek, Maryland, will defend his three 154-pound titles against Philadelphia’s Williams (26-1-1, 16 KOs, 1 NC) in the main event of FOX telecast Saturday night. The broadcast is set to begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.