Paul Smith is back in the gym and ready to fight again.
The 32-year-old super-middleweight was contemplating retirement after his catchweight loss to Andre Ward in California in June, which followed back-to-back world title defeats by WBO champion Arthur Abraham.
Smith (35-6-KO20), who will be working ringside for his brother Stephen's world title eliminator against Devis Boschiero live on Sky Sports on Saturday, recently became a father again but is ready to give boxing one more crack.
"I've just started getting back into the gym training and I've had a chat with Eddie Hearn and there's a few fights out there and there's a few routes out there as well," he told Sky Sports.
"I wouldn't mind going back out to America to fight again. The door to Germany is always open for me and I enjoyed fighting over there and there is always big fights here in Britain.
"I don't want to retire. If you told me I was never going to fight again, I would be gutted - and the fact that I feel that way shows I want to carry on.
"I've had three hard fights in my last three fights so why not have a sort of comeback fight - a six or eight-rounder like every normal fighter - and see where we go from there."
Smith is already looking at a fight in the winter, with brothers Stephen fighting this weekend, Liam fighting for a world title in October and Callum taking on Rocky Fielding in November.
He admits he didn't "manage" his preparations as well as he should have done for the Ward fight but although trainer Joe Gallagher felt he should retire, the 32-year-old is convinced he is still fit enough following an elbow operation.
"I'm not shot, I've not been hurt," said Smith.
"You do see it all the time with fighters - like someone like Brian Vera who gets hit and hurt by jabs now - but I've never had that. I've had my niggles and aches and pains and injuries in training but that is my age; not me being finished.
"Also the first people who would tell me if that was going on would be my brothers and they've all said the same thing: I'm not shot, I'm not finished, I'm not done.
"But I might have this six or eight-rounder and think 'you know what, I can't be bothered to go through camp again'. That's the hardest thing. It wasn't the fights themselves but the camp, the 12 to 14-week camps I had for the last three of them.
"It does take its toll and I might not want to go through that for those big title fights again. But I will never know until I try it."