NEW YORK – Jared Anderson anticipates another short fight Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

The ascending heavyweight prospect predicted he’ll get rid of Oleksandr Teslenko quickly and impressively in a fight scheduled for eight rounds on the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Richard Commey undercard. Anderson (10-0, 10 KOs) has boxed beyond the third round in only two of his 10 professional fights.

“If he lands two punches, I need to get my butt whupped and my coaches gonna get on me,” Anderson told BoxingScene.com after a press conference Thursday at The Garden. “He’s a very slow fighter. He is very technical, and that’s it. He’s not very elusive. He’s not very fast or anything like that. So, I plan to do it very impressively and quickly.”

Teslenko (17-1, 13 KOs) has lost only to Shawndell Winters (13-6, 12 KOs), a former cruiserweight who stopped Teslenko in the fifth round of their September 2019 bout in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

The 22-year-old Anderson, whom WBC champ Tyson Fury has called the future of their division after numerous sparring sessions, has won each of his last two bouts by second-round knockout. The Toledo, Ohio, native most recently stopped previously unbeaten Russian Vladimir Tereshkin (22-1-1, 12 KOs) in the second round on the Fury-Deontay Wilder undercard October 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The 6-feet-4, 240-pound Anderson hopes to box better opposition in 2022, assuming the 22-1 favorite handles Teslenko as expected in the co-feature of ESPN’s four-fight telecast (9 p.m. ET; 6 p.m. PT).

“As far as the level of opponents to fight, Top Rank gonna do what they want,” Anderson said in reference to his promoter. “But they feel that they moving me right. I feel that they moving me right. Whoever accept those fights, that’s the biggest thing. There’s already a lot of fighters who don’t wanna fight me. And I ain’t mad at ‘em. Keep your 0 as long as you can, but they know when the ‘Boogeyman’ come knockin’ at they door, they gotta see me.

“So, eventually stuff gonna start getting mandated because I’m gonna get to 10-rounders and they gonna have to mandate people. They ain’t gonna be able to run for long. In 2022, I’m gonna be able to fight some people because they’re not gonna be able to run no more.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.