Recently, European champion Liam Davies told Queensberry that he believes he could face Miller in the not-too-distant future. The call out was music to the Mancunian’s ears.

The former British and Commonwealth featherweight champion has almost recovered from the biceps injury that ruled him out of a proposed showdown with Davies earlier this year and the video was a welcome reminder that he is still a big part of the 126 pound conversation.

“Whether it's going to be the next fight or the one after or whatever, that fight needs to happen this year,” Miller told The Ring.

“It's the fight that I want. It’s the fight that I wanted.”

Miller (17-1, 3 KOs) and Davies (18-1, 9 KOs) had been due to meet on the undercard of the heavyweight fight between Moses Itauma and Jermaine Franklin.

Initially, Miller, 29, attempted to train around the biceps injury but had to eventually admit defeat and withdraw from the fight.

In desperate need of action after months out of the ring himself, Davies remained on the card and was matched with Francesco Grandelli for the vacant European title. The 30-year-old produced an excellent display to outbox and stop the tough Italian in six rounds.

Miller is now back to full training and raring to go.

“I had one arm for two weeks. I’m telling everyone it's going to be all right. I'm lying to my family saying, 'Yeah, I'm all right.' I'm saying to Steve [Maylett, his trainer], 'I'm alright' but clearly it wasn't. The specialists do the job. We’ve had the surgery and I'm back,” he said.

“I put myself in the best place possible. I'm still in shape. I'm still fit and I'm on the comeback trail.

“If anything, the fights got bigger. Liam's last performance was good. He beat that kid, Grandelli, and looked well doing it as well.

“I wanted Liam to win that night. I wasn't going to be bitter and sit there and say, “I want Grandelli to beat him”. I didn't. I wanted Liam to win because it makes the fight bigger for us too. It makes sense.

“It makes sense in terms of boxing. It makes sense in terms of financial situation. It's a big fight for us both and it will happen this year.”

The top of the British featherweight division has changed significantly in recent months.

Nick Ball still leads the way but is resting and recuperating after losing his WBA title to Brandon Figueroa in February whilst Nathaniel Collins is considering which way to turn after losing a WBC final eliminator to Cristobel Lorente in April.

The fight with Davies was always going to help shape the featherweight division but now it will almost certainly catapult the winner into a major fight.

“The European title's huge but you've got to look at who's in front of us in the country,” Miller said.

“Nathaniel Collins is WBC No. 1 and Nick Ball was the world champion. Then there's me and Liam. You win the European title, who knows where it takes you.

“It's above European level in a way because, after that, you're going to go on to world honors. If not, you're going to get a world title eliminator. It's a massive fight but I'm in it for the big fights and the big nights.”