By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Badou Jack doesn’t want to waste time once he moves up to the light heavyweight division for his next fight.

The WBC world super middleweight champion wouldn’t mind facing hard-hitting WBC 175-pound champion Adonis Stevenson in his first full-fledged fight at light heavyweight. Canada’s Stevenson (28-1, 23 KOs) is one of boxing’s biggest punchers, but Jack won’t hesitate to sign a contract if Stevenson wants to fight him.

“Yeah, I’m ready to fight him,” Jack said as part of the post-fight press conference following his majority draw with James DeGale on Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

Yvon Michel, Stevenson’s promoter, already has begun negotiating with Joe DeGuardia, who promotes Joe Smith, to make an April 29 bout between them at the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

The owners and operators of Nassau Coliseum want the refurbished building’s first boxing event to feature a title fight. Smith (23-1, 19 KOs), of Mastic, New York, has a huge following on Long Island and would help draw a sizeable crowd to Nassau Coliseum for a title shot at Stevenson.

That won’t stop Floyd Mayweather Jr., whose company promotes Jack (20-1-3, 12 KOs), from trying to make a Stevenson-Jack fight.

“Adonis Stevenson,” Mayweather said. “We’re looking forward to a Badou Jack and an Adonis Stevenson fight.”

Beyond possibly meeting Smith next, the 39-year-old Stevenson has a mandatory title defense due against the winner between transplanted Canadians Eleider Alvarez and Lucian Bute. Colombia’s Alvarez (21-0, 10 KOs), ranked No. 1 by the WBC, and Romania’s Bute (32-3-1, 25 KOs), the WBC’s sixth-ranked contender at 175 pounds, are scheduled to fight February 24 in Quebec City, Canada

If he can’t land a fight against Stevenson, Jack wants his light heavyweight debut to come against another top 175-pound fighter.

“I wanna fight the best,” Jack said. “I never wanna be remembered as a cherry-picker. Give me the best guys. If I win, I win. If I lose, I lose. I wanna be tested. I want the challenges. I want the big-money fights. I don’t care who’s in front of me.”

The 33-year-old Jack doesn’t think a rematch against London’s DeGale (23-1-1, 14 KOs) is a viable bout at light heavyweight because he doesn’t expect DeGale to follow him up to 175 pounds. Jack, however, says he has had too much trouble making the super middleweight limit of 168 pounds recently to remain in that division.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.