Dennis Hogan wants his first title defence to be in Dublin should he beat WBC middleweight champ Jermall Charlo.
The Kildare native, 34, heads to the Barclays Center on December 7th to face undefeated Charlo, and is locked into a rematch clause should he cause a big upset.
But speaking exclusively with Irish Mirror, Hogan insisted that he would push to have the fight held in the 3 Arena.
He said: "My goal was always to win the world title and do my first defence in the 3 Arena in Dublin and that's not changed.
"I do know that the contract for this fight is that if I win this there's a rematch clause that they would have to execute, but I'd push to have that in Dublin.
"It would be phenomenal to have a big fight in Ireland... There's a lot of politics around fighting in Dublin, but my promoter Paul Keegan of DDP Sports has been inspired when he's been at the 3 Arena.
"We don't look at the politics and all that, we just do things, I get so confused and frustrated with boxing politics but our little motto is 'we're doers, we just do'.
"So we'll do whatever it takes, I'll win this title and then there will be no stone left unturned from us to bring a fight to Dublin."
Hogan would also like to have a title fight with Cork veteran Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan, which would be the first World Championship boxing match including two Irishmen.
"I have also had this goal that I'd love to be involved in the first world title fight to include two Irishmen and with 'Spike' fighting Jaime Munguia in January, if he wins that's something we could do.
"I hope he gets the win there, I definitely believe he can and it would be great for us to do that for the WBC, these are all larger goals that I have after my primary goal of becoming world champion which I am focused on."
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