Aaron McKenna has called for a shot at WBO & IBF middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly and insists the pair are the division's two 'most feared' fighters.

McKenna (20-0, 10 KOs) impressed the masses with a dominant unanimous decision victory over former world champion Liam Smith on The Ring's first ever card at the end of April.

The Irishman boxed brilliantly that night and even scored a 12th-round knockdown at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on the undercard of Chris Eubank Jr-Conor Benn.

And now he wants a shot at Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs), who successfully defended his two trinkets in brutal style at the start of April against Anauel Ngamissengue.

"No-one really is interested in fighting me, a rising star in the division," McKenna told The Ring. "I just want to take anyone on who is a test, and Janibek is one of them, he's world champion, he's in the same situation, he's trying to get a fight with the other world champions, but they don't want any of it.

"So I think between me and him, we're probably the two most feared in the division, I'm a rising star, he's a world champion, he'd be the most feared world champion in the division, so I think a fight between me and him would make perfect sense, because we're two guys that find it hard to fight anyone else in the division, no one really comes knocking on the door for us.

"I believe I am the best middleweight in the world, and I just have to prove it again. In my last fight I came through it in flying colours, and the next fight I intend to do the same, and I just want to fight the best.

"I do believe I beat him, and I want to become undisputed in the division, so I can move up to 168 then."

Alimkhanuly has called for unification fights with his fellow champions, WBA titleholder Erislandy Lara and WBC champ Carlos Adames.

Turki Alalshikh said earlier this summer that negotiations for an Alimkhanuly-Adames fight hit an impasse, and that it was the fault of the Dominican.

Meanwhile, McKenna just wants boxing to be as it was toward the end of the 20th century, when elite-level fighters would compete in 50-50 fights year-round.

He added: "I've seen he's doing a lot of calling out on Twitter to Adames and Lara, and he's not really getting too much out of it, and I said I'll fight him, he says no-one would fight him, and I think I'm the only one out there that says I'll fight him.

"I want to bring [boxing] back like the 80s and 90s, when boxers weren't afraid to fight each other.

"That's what boxing's about, I studied a lot of the 1980s fighters like Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray [Leonard], Tommy Hearns, [Roberto] Duran, all them guys. When I do my studying on boxers, they'd be the ones I watch. It's the activity ... they fought numerous times per year, but world champions now, they'd be lucky to fight once a year, twice a year if they're very active in their eyes, but that's just what I want to bring back."