LAS VEGAS – A title shot is the only fight that Bruce ‘Shu Shu’ Carrington wants to hear for his next outing.

The unbeaten Brooklyn native made that point emphatically clear after his third-round knockout of Mexico’s Jose Enrique Vivas. Carrington, 15-0 (9 KOs) became the first to stop Vivas, 23-4 (13 KOs) during their ESPN+ streamed WBC featherweight title eliminator this past Saturday from BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. 

Carrington, 27, entered the fight ranked number one with both the WBC and WBO, number two with the WBA and number five with the IBF. That lofty placement should afford the right to not only land a title fight next, but one of his choosing.

“I want all the top champs, you already know,” Carrington said after his stoppage win. “But let me specific. Nick Ball? I want that [WBA] title. WBC, Stephen Fulton? Yeah I want that, I want that. 

“Let’s get this work in, I want all that. I’m top five in all the sanctioning bodies. Let’s get this work in, stop ducking.” 

The mindset was carried well into this fight. Carrington already had his sights set on Fulton, 23-1 (8 KOs) from the moment the Philadelphia native lifted the WBC featherweight title from Brandon Figueroa on February 1 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. 

Saturday’s win solidified his place in line for that shot, barring a ring return by WBC ‘Champion in Recess’ Rey Vargas, 36-1-1 (22 KOs).

From a purely political standpoint, a fight with rangy WBO titlist Rafael Espinoza, 26-0 (22 KOs) should be the easiest to make. Both are with Top Rank (Espinoza is also co-promoted by Zanfer Boxing) and Carrington is the number one contender to the title, though not yet the ordered mandatory.

Espinoza is set to defend his title against Edward Vazquez 17-2 (4 KOs) on the Naoya Inoue-Ramon Cardenas undercard at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Carrington is expected to be in attendance and undoubtedly among the most interested observers in the outcome. 

Judging by his response on Saturday, his expectation is for Espinoza, 30, to prevail. His demand is for the 6ft featherweight titleholder to finally acknowledge his presence, though he may soon not have a choice.

“You know I’ll chop that tree down, too,” Carrington insisted of the unbeaten Guadalajara native. “I’ve been calling his name out since last year. Stop playing. You got to ask him the question, if he wants to fight me. 

“I’ve been saying I want to fight. I’m not ducking nobody, I want this work. Come see me.”

Carrington’s technical knockout win on Saturday came after he went the distance in each of his last two contests.