Australia’s Max McIntyre believes that he is ready for the “measuring stick” presented by Tej Pratap Singh after sparring Lester Martinez.

The promising super middleweight on Thursday confronts his most experienced of 10 professional opponents, and does so aware that Singh has previously been matched to test other talented young fighters when they are being stepped up in class.

Singh, of India, has previously fought and lost to, among others, Amari Jones, but he then recorded successive victories over the previously undefeated Blake Wells, halting the upwards trajectory Wells’ career was then on.