SOLIHULL, England — Conah Walker could fight Queensberry welterweight rival Ekow Essuman next, according to the British 147-pound champion's promoter Eddie Hearn.

Walker (16-3-1, 7 KOs) battered and bloodied Liam Taylor (28-3-1, 14 KOs) for 7 rounds before knocking him out with a thunderous left hook in Birmingham on Saturday night in the co-feature to Galal Yafai-Francisco Rodriguez Jr.

The Wolverhampton man defended the Lonsdale belt he won from Harry Scarff in January, and in doing so entertained the masses with a thrilling come-forward performance which ended in emphatic fashion.

After the fight, Walker got himself on the mic and called for a fight on a card put on by HE Turki Alalshikh, shouting 'show me the money!'.

But Hearn would like Walker to win his British title outright, and says there are talks already underway with Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions about a potential fight with Ekow Essuman, who recently beat Josh Taylor.

"Unbelievable," said Hearn to The Ring. "I mean, just one of the most exciting fighters.

"Sam [Jones] is saying 'let him get him a Riyadh Season show'. The thing is with Conah is, we put him in with Cyrus Pattinson to get beat up six fights ago, and he won that fight, then he fought Lewis Crocker in a war, which could have gone either way, then he fought [Lewis] Ritson, then he fought Harry Scarff, then he fought Liam Taylor, and every fight has been unbelievable and he's making money, banking it, and it's really nice to see.

"So part of me would love him to win the Lonsdale belt outright, I think that'd be an amazing thing, you know, we're talking to Queensberry about a fight with Ekow Essuman, which I think would just be a brutal fight."

Hearn also floated a possible move to junior middleweight for Walker, where a potential fight with Midlands rival Sam Eggington could be an option.

"There's a lot of people talking here about a fight, maybe stepping up a weight and meeting Sam Eggington at 154," Hearn added. "I mean, those two guys from Midlands would just be a bloodbath.

"I think we appreciate and understand that maybe Conah Walker won't go to that world level, but I got a lot of messages tonight across social sort of saying 'that's what we want to watch!'

"That is the sort of fight we go home and turn the TV on for, that was [expletive] great."