Rising junior middleweight star Tim Tszyu would love to secure a fight with current IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin.

Tszyu admits to idolizing Golovkin for several years.

Golovkin, now 38, has been out of the ring back in December when he easily crushed mandatory challenger Kamil Szeremeta.

Tszyu, 26-years-old and competing one division below, is unlikely to face GGG before the hard puncher retires.

"My dream fight would be against GGG," Tszyu told news.com.au.

"He's been my idol for the last five, six years. At one stage I idolized him and then at another stage I said 'you know what, that would be a fight I'd love to take one day.'  He's in his late 30s, [but] you never know. With these COVID situations and all this stuff. We're doing good stuff in Australia so you know."

Tszyu will return to the ring on March 31 in Newcastle, against former world title challenger Dennis Hogan.

He views Hogan as a very big step in moving forward to a potential world title fight in the very near future.

"It's another step closer to [a world title]. Dennis Hogan has been in with Charlo, Munguia, the top boys in the [middleweight] division, and he's given them trouble. So it's going to be good to see how I compare against him to the way they fought," Tszyu said.

"I've been keeping my eyes on these boys [with world titles]. They're the boys that I want. Charlo especially because he's got all the belts. But of course there's Castano who has the belt I want to fight for, because I'm the number one contender.

"If Teixeira won, he would've been mine straight away but Castano won so there's more politics involved and it's a bit harder to make."