In a perfect world, Chris Colbert would love to line up a blockbuster fight with rising superstar Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis.

Very much living in reality, the unbeaten Brooklyn native can see himself in the ring with a former champion in order to get there.

“Me versus Leo Santa Cruz, I would love that,” Colbert said during a post-fight press conference following his latest win, a twelve-round unanimous decision victory over Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar. “He’s got a tremendous fan base. He’s a four-division champion, I’m a future champion.

“He’s a hell of a champion, former four-division champion. I take off my hat to him, no disrespect to him. It would be a hell of a fight and an honor to fight him.”

Colbert (16-0, 6KOs) is in a position to size up his future after preserving his unbeaten record with a dominant showing over Nyambayar (12-2, 9KOs). Their WBA interim junior lightweight title fight headlined Saturday’s edition of Showtime Championship Boxing from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.

It’s been more than two years since Colbert has been able to fight in his home region, last appearing on the non-televised undercard of a January 2019 Fox telecast from Barclays Center. Colbert has fought four times at the venue, including his May 2015 pro debut when he was still a junior in high school.

Saturday marked just Colbert’s second televised headliner, with the hopes among the PBC staff of developing him into a star. Boxing is eventually due to return to Barclays Center now that New York venues are allowing fans in attendance for the first time since the pandemic. Ever the realist, Colbert knows he’s not yet in a place to carry a show on his own.

“We need a stacked card. My people, these people (points to skin), they don’t support me,” Colbert admitted. “I need my people to come out more and support me. I do fight for my people. I come out and put on a show for my people and we get the win every time, dominate.”

A fight against the likes of Santa Cruz (37-2-1, 19KOs)—who was in attendance on Saturday—would certainly arouse interest. The future plans are unknown for the former four-division titlist, who hasn’t fought since a sixth-round knockout loss to Davis in their Showtime Pay-Per-View headliner last Halloween at Alamodome in San Antonio.

It never matters to Colbert who is manning the opposite corner. A pair of gloves and a fight date are always good enough for the 24-year-old at this stage of his career.

“To be honest, I don’t pick and choose [the opponents],” noted Colbert. “Whoever they put in front of me, I go in and beat them.”

The dream one day is for it to be against Davis, which will take some time—which both Davis (26) and Colbert (24) have on their side.

“That’s not a fight that’s going to happen because it won’t make money right now,” Colbert acknowledges. “It got to make money to make sense.

“But me and Gervonta Davis would be a superfight one day. I would love for that to happen one day.”

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox