Jeff Horn Smiles: I Want The Scalps of Canelo, GGG Under My Belt!

Former two world champion Jeff Horn is smiling at the chance to get his hands on top middleweights Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.

Horn has been out of the ring since last fall's first round demolition of Anthony Mundine at a catch-weight just above the junior middleweight limit.

Canelo is back next Saturday night, when he faces Daniel Jacobs in a high stakes IBF, WBA, WBC unification at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and Golovkin returns on June 8th against Steve Rolls at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Horn believes he would do very well against either middleweight fighter.

“The biggest challenge and the biggest pay day out there would be Canelo Alvarez,” Horn told ESPN.

“Everyone knows [Canelo is] very strong. A very, very good boxer. I’d probably choose him or GGG. They are the two biggest names right now in boxing and they are two scalps I’d really like to get under my belt. I’d fight them. I’ve got that awkward style people keep talking about where they don’t know when I’m coming. They don’t know when I’m punching. I think I would do very well against [Canelo’s] style.”

Horn recently pulled out of a fight with former WBA "regular" middleweight Ryoto Murata in Tokyo that would have earned him $2 million because the proposed July date is set to conflict with the birth of his second child.

And Horn has no issue with doing a rematch with Manny Pacquiao at welterweight. Horn won a controversial twelve round decision over Pacquiao in 2017.

“We were happy to take the rematch and prove it once again,” Horn said. “That’s the reason I would want to do it again or else why would I do it again? I wouldn’t want to lose against him.

“He doesn’t want to do it again. He knows how hard it’s going to be the second time, so he wants nothing to do with it.”