Lenny Daws is not planning to box on as long as Bernard Hopkins did — but aims to be world champion before he is 40.

Daws (30-4-2, 11 KOs), 38, has his first fight in over a year when he disputes the vacant European light-welterweight title with Sweden’s Anthony Yigit at the Westcroft Leisure Centre in Carshalton, south London, Saturday.

The fight was originally slated for Dec. 17 last year — the same night American Hopkins had his last professional fight aged 51 — but had to be rearranged after Daws suffered a back injury.

“I’ve not thought about packing it in yet,” Daws told ESPN.

“I’m getting on a little bit now, I’m a lot older than the boys I train with, but none of them can stay with my fitness.

“I’m still gifted with that, I’ve got to use it and it’s always a big factor in my fights when they go down the stretch. It’s how you live your life. If you’ve done it right, why can’t you go on for that long? What Hopkins did is amazing.

“I’m not going to go on as long as Bernard Hopkins but I’m still strong minded, I still love the sport and I’m training so hard. It’s a fight I have to win and off of that big things can come — you could get a world title fight from being European champion. So this is a big, big fight for me.

“I can’t see why not I will fight until 40, I’m still enjoying it.”

Daws will be trying to win the belt for the third time after he was controversially disqualified in his last fight against Ruben Nieto in December 2015.

Daws was ahead on the scorecards when he was judged to have deliberately headbutted his Spanish opponent, who suffered a cut and was unable to continue.

Daws also lost a unanimous points decision to Michele Di Rocco in Italy in 2013 for the same European light-welterweight title.