Okolie's planning for a big future

LAWRENCE OKOLIE believes the opportunity is there for him to shape his legacy in the cruiserweight division before finally stepping up to challenge Tyson Fury.

- TOM HOPKINSON

Okolie makes a second defence of his WBO world cruiserweight title at London’s O2 Arena tonight when he takes on Michal Cieslak of Poland.

And he hopes their dust-up will be a final stepping stone to the unification fights he so craves against WBA champion Arsen Goulamirian, WBC top dog Ilunga Makabu or IBF and Ring king Mairis Briedis.

Okolie said: “It depends how the next three or four fights go.