By Miguel Rivera

Former world champion Giovani Segura is looking for opportunities both professionally and personally, and therefore decided to move to Mérida, Yucatán, where he has already begun his training for a return in the first quarter of 2018 and is about to start his high school studies.

The 35-year-old Segura said he plans to return in super flyweight or bantamweight, in addition to accepting the fact that he will have to train in overdrive while it is time to show that he still has quality and hunger to compete even for a world championship.

"A week ago I settled in Merida, Yucatan, it is a city that welcomed us very well when we fought here in 2009, which I fell in love with and that came with renewed illusions both professionally and personally, because I have not only started my training at the Balukas Boxing Gym but also thinking about starting my high school studies, it's never too late," Segura said to ESPN Deportes.

Gio (33-4-1, 29 KOs) has not fought since June 2016, and prior to that he did not fight since September 2014 when he was defeated by Juan Francisco Estrada at flyweight.

However, he has not stopped following boxing.

"I see the fights and the champions of my weight and I want to go back, the coaches I work with tell me I have potential, in sparring I knock them out and they tell me I'm a champion and people are motivating me. I have a lot of punch, resistance and conditioning, so we are going to return in super flyweight where the division is hot or bantamweight. I will respect what my body asks of me," said Segura.

Segura, who was a light flyweight champion of the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization, had some fundamental setbacks towards the end of his career with losses to Brian Viloria, Edgar Sosa and 'Gallo' Estrada; however, he believes that it is time to get in there again.

"There is a good group of champions in super flyweight. I think I can be there, that's my purpose, to go back and work hard to earn the opportunity and the respect to be able to fight with them, I know what to do, you just have to work," Segura said.