Emanuel Navarrete earned his stripes as one of boxing’s most active major titlists.

That pace slowed as he moved up to featherweight but is now back to the stream of ring activity that saw him rapidly advance through the ranks.

Up next for the three-division titleholder is the second defense of his WBO junior lightweight title versus Brazil’s Robson Conceicao. The bout is the third of a productive campaign for Navarrete, who enters on the heels of a career-best win over former two-time champ Oscar Valdez earlier this summer.

“I love to fight and I love to do it as often as possible,” Navarrete told BoxingScene.com. “It makes me happy when I know there is something to train towards.

“It is such a big difference from when you go six or more months between fights. I don’t like it all. Waiting for fights bothers me.”

Navarrete-Conceicao is the co-feature to the Shakur Stevenson-Edwin De Los Santos WBC lightweight title fight. Both bouts will air live on ESPN from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Time was not wasted at all for the 28-year-old from San Juan Zitlaltepec, who is just three months removed from his big win over Valdez on August 12 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The same venue hosted his WBO 130-pound title win over Australia’s Liam Wilson. Navarrete hadn’t fought since the prior August, felt rusty early and was forced to overcome the first knockdown of his career in their February 3 clash.

Navarrete (38-1, 31KOs) stormed back to drop and eventually knock Wilson out in the ninth round of their instant classic. He admitted that it wasn’t his favorite performance, for good reason between the slower paced schedule and Valdez withdrawing from that bout due to a prior injury which never fully healed.

Another six months between fights saw his clash versus Valdez finally come to the forefront. The pacing was similar to his featherweight title reign, where Navarrete fought twice a year after a 122-pound title campaign that saw him cram five successful defenses into a nine-month period.

The training camp for his upcoming clash versus Conceicao (17-2, 8KOs; 1NC)—a 2016 Olympic Gold medalist for Brazil and former two-time title challenger—carried that same kind of energy.

“This camp was certainly different from my past two,” admitted Navarrete, who is a perfect 12-0 in title fights across three weight divisions. “It was like my older camps. I didn’t have to worry about starting from zero and warming up in the beginning.

“We were able to pick up right where we left off, which is important in a fight like this. You can’t afford to be rusty against a skilled opponent like Robson Conceicao.”

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox