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"Every fight from here on in is a super-fight," he added. "Most importantly he kept his belt in a fight he absolutely dominated from start to finish."
Shalom will speak to rival London cruiserweight Riakporhe on Sunday. Riakporhe is a big puncher who is ready to challenge for world honours himself.
Shalom said: "It's either the unification or Richard for Lawrence next and I know it's a fight that Richard's dying for. I think that's the plan, that's the route and it's exciting because already Lawrence has got his mandatory out the way, now with ring rust off.
"CBS [Chris Billam-Smith] has built brilliantly to the stadium fight, Richard Riakporhe's gone from British level to world level over the past 18 months and just got better and better and better.
"So the beautiful thing is we do have three cruiserweights at world level ready to go for world titles and fight each other. So it'll be a big year this year."