A few notes from around the boxing world:

• Junior middleweight Terrell Gausha represented the United States on the 2012 Olympic team in London and turned pro a few months later. Now, just as the 2016 Rio Games have ended, Gausha (18-0, 9 KOs), 28, of Cleveland, feels he is nearly ready to fight for a world title. He’s still working his way toward one and will continue that trek against 26-year-old New Yorker Steve Martinez (16-2, 13 KOs) on a Premier Boxing Champions card Saturday (Spike, 9 p.m. ET) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

  “I think I’m ready for a title shot soon,” Gausha said. “I want to go out there and take care of this guy and show that I’m ready to take over the division. I don’t need to call anybody out. My way of doing it is by my performance. I’m a laid back and humble guy. I will fight anybody though. It’s a yes to any name. Each fight I feel like I’ve been growing. I’ve been learning and taking something from every experience in the ring. I’m a student of the game. I’m always training and I feel like I’m getting sharper and better.”

  Welterweight Robert Guerrero (33-4-1, 18 KOs), of Gilroy, California, headlines the tripleheader against Argentina’s David Peralta (25-2-1, 14 KOs). In the other televised bout, Mexican brawler Alfredo Angulo (24-5, 20 KOs) takes on Freddy Hernandez in a super middleweight bout.

• Light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (17-1, 12 KOs), who dropped a one-sided decision to Andre Ward on March 26, said he is ready to fight again and frustrated by not having a bout lined up, even though in today’s age his layoff has actually been quite brief. Nonetheless, the former Cuban amateur standout is anxious to fight.

  “I don’t understand it. I’ve been putting on great fights,” Barrera said. “People have seen my knockouts on ESPN and on HBO Latino. I thought I would have fought again in the summer or at least had a fight lined up by now. Over the past few months there have been talks to face Bernard Hopkins, Jean Pascal and Slava Shabranskyy, but when it comes down to signing a contract, nothing ever happens. I am willing to fight any of these guys. I went to Ward’s backyard. I am not afraid of anything or anyone. I don’t have any problems with my manager or my promoter, which is usually why a lot of guys aren’t fighting. Everyone knows I am willing to go to Canada to fight Pascal and I am ready to fight Hopkins anywhere. I heard he is looking to have a final fight and I have no problem sending a legend out with a loss. There were talks of both of these fights. One of these guys needs to sign a contract. Seanie Monaghan hasn’t fought in a while. Artur Beterbiev, Eleider Alvarez — I would take their 0’s away too. Just give me a fight.”

• Jason Sosa, who won a secondary junior lightweight title with a come-from-behind 11th-round knockout of Javier Fortuna on June 24, had been ordered to face titleholder Jezreel Corrales (20-1, 8 KOs), of Panama, in a mandatory fight to consolidate their belts. However, the WBA announced that Sosa (19-1-4, 15 KOs), of Camden, New Jersey, has been granted special permission to first defend his 130-pound belt against Floyd Mayweather protégé and hot prospect Gervonta Davis (16-0, 15 KOs) — a southpaw from Baltimore, Maryland. The fight could take place on Oct. 22 in Las Vegas but nothing is set.