JOSHUA BUATSI must go to war against Craig Richards, while maintaining a friendship with Craig's light-heavyweight opponent's mother and sister.
Inactivity and injury have kept the South Londoner, who is now 29, from winning the world title race.
Craig Richards trains to fight Joshua Buatsi
British boxing will gain from his loss as he will be facing his promotional stablemate, his neighbor on Saturday at O2.
Ice-cool JB, who lives by his Just Business mantra, explains how he will maintain cordial relations with the Richards family and try to ruin their 32-year old boy's recent run.
SunSport spoke to the London 2012 bronze winner: "I bump into Craig’s mom and sister around South London. They really support his career, and they are really cool.
"When I meet them, there are always warm greetings.
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"Craig is now someone people want to watch fight, and I'm sure his fans want him to fight me," he said.
"But boxing is not what happens in the ring for those few minutes.
"Except for the ring, you must be yourself. If that means being kind to people, it shouldn't change."
"Those 36 minutes in the ring are rarely as good as what we are outside the ring 24/7.
FREE BETTING AND SIGN-UP DEALS - THE BEST NEW CUSTOMER OFFERINGS"I would say that I am completely different from how I am in boxing, and I'm very chilled away from boxing.
"When the bell rings, I feel it is time to fight and I switch into business mode."
Buatsi, who is not related to his family, has moved away to San Francisco to join the camps of Virgil Hunter, Buatsi's training guru.
He insists that segregation from Anthony Joshua's 258 management company and Team GB - where he has a lot of popularity - is part his mental training.
He explained that he could travel anywhere in Europe or the UK and only be a few hours away from his friends by train, car or plane.
"Instead, I choose to be a ten hour flight away and an eight-hour time difference behind everyone.
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"Even making it difficult for video and phone calls to be made is part of the process.
"And I will make it all worthwhile against Craig, and everyone else."
