Boxing: Williams Shelves Retirement Plan and Sets Sights on European Title

The British heavyweight champion, Danny Williams, who considered retiring after regaining the title when he knocked out the Welshman Scott Gammer in Neath on Friday night, has said that he intends to continue his career and would like to face the Ukrainian Vladimir Virchis for the European title.

"I have had so much positive feedback from people who said I showed glimpses of world class [against Gammer]," said the Brixton-based 33-year-old. "My main goal is to get back to the top and I believe I can compete with champions like Oleg Maskaev [the WBC world champion]."

Williams beat Mike Tyson three years ago but lost a world title challenge in December 2004 when he was stopped in eight rounds by the then WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. It remains Williams' ambition to fight again for a world title but he ruled out a rematch with Audley Harrison, who knocked him out in December.

Amir Khan, 20, who is undefeated in his first 11 professional fights, is to fight Doncaster's Steffy Bull on the undercard of Joe Calzaghe's WBO world super- middleweight title defence against Peter Manfredo at the Millennium Stadium on April 7.

Bull, 29, who has been a professional since 1995 and has won 24 of his 29 contests, has ended a short-lived retirement by agreeing to provide Khan's 12th professional test.

"My partner and I are due to be married in July and she gave me a present of pitchside tickets for the show," said Bull. "We were going to have a nice weekend in Wales and support the British boxers.

"It's amazing how things work out because now I am going to be getting into the ring and there is going to be a spare ticket next to my missus. It feels like I have been handed a lottery ticket."

Khan said: "I know British fighters are more up for it than the rest but it just makes me train harder because I also know I am fighting guys who are coming to win."