Last January, Walker (18-3-1, 9 KOs) won the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles with a stunning late knockout of Harry Scarff. In December, he rounded off an outstanding year by knocking 2020 Olympic silver medalist Pat McCormack out of the ring in the final round.

Saturday, he launched another dramatic comeback to knock out Sam Eggington in the 10th round of an all out war at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in England.

After the fight, Walker called for a fight against his British rival Conor Benn.

“Conor Benn, Listen,” he said. “You've proved that there's no friends in boxing. Me and you get on, but if you think you're the man in England, come and prove it, son.

“AJ and Fury undercard. Conor Benn, come and f-----g prove it, big boy.”

Whether Walker snares a Benn fight or not, he seems destined to secure a big fight next.

For a while, it looked as if the win over McCormack may have secured Walker the chance to rematch current IBF 147 pound champion Lewis Crocker, but boxing politics bought those plans to a swift end.

Having vacated his welterweight titles and seen his dream world title bid taken away, he found himself fighting the hard, experienced veteran Eggington (36-10, 20 KOs) at a catchweight of 153 pounds.

Eggington has forged his own reputation as a crowd pleasing warrior during an exciting, up-and-down 13-year career, but he does have a useful jab, and experience has taught him when to use it. Rather than jumping straight into the widely predicted brawl, he took the center of the ring and dominated the early exchanges.

Walker isn’t the type to be easily kept at bay, and he pressed forward, landing short hooks and uppercuts, but Eggington managed to land the cleaner, more eye-catching punches. He rocked Walker’s head back with a series of huge right uppercuts in the fourth, but the home favorite refused to take a backward step and seemed to establish a foothold in the fifth.

Already cut over his left eye, Eggington turned the tide back his way in the sixth with a brilliant display of accurate punch picking, but sat down on his stool with another cut over his right eye.

With the fight seemingly slipping away, Walker targeted the body in the eighth. The change of tactic worked. Eggington was frozen to the spot and then sank to the canvas after a left to the pit of his stomach.

Somehow, he survived and regathered himself, but just when it looked like he was beginning to find his groove again, he was stunned by a hard right that froze him where he stood. Walker ruthlessly unleashed and forced the referee to jump in.

“Listen, I'm the man. I'm the man in the 147 pound division,” a jubilant Walker said afterward. “I’m the best fighter in the world. Come and prove me wrong."