The Londoner has fuelled the fire in the buildup to their Wembley fight, claiming he could sign with his opponent's promoter

George Groves says he is going to "verbally bully" Carl Froch all the way to their rematch at Wembley Stadium on 31 May – and then may sign a deal with the champion's promoter, Eddie Hearn. While that may be a wearing prospect, the confident young Londoner stands by his mantra: everything for a reason.

If he wanted to rile the world super-middleweight champion more than he already has done this past week – to the point where Froch shoved him in the chest when they faced off at Wembley – he has just found another button.

"He will have to come up with something new, something that's relevant," Groves said, deriding Froch's responses to his goading at their first press conference. "If he says something that contradicts what he's said before, I'm going to pull it apart. That's what activates him the most. I will verbally bully him, with Eddie sitting next to him, trying to talk for him.

"Eddie has realised that Carl doesn't want to or can't handle the verbal exchanges. I've already said to him: 'Listen, it's going to be me and you this time. We'll have to build it up, because Carl's not up to the challenge.'

"I'm self-managed. I want to try to look after myself and I'm at the stage where I can negotiate myself a world title fight. When I become world champion, what do I need? I need opponents, I need someone to pick a venue, negotiate a date, and I need a promoter.

"If it's going to be a British promoter, it most likely will be Eddie. They made me an offer but the terms weren't quite right. Maybe that's because they're still looking after Carl. If I beat Carl, then we'll see how ruthless Eddie is. The more successful a promoter becomes, the more ruthless they've got to be. He'll be fair, and I think that is his nature.

"But you can only be fair for so long. It will be interesting. Golden Boy are also interested, and Frank Warren. I like Frank. We've worked together. We split, but we didn't have a falling out, it just wasn't working."

Nor was his arrangement with Booth, who trained and managed Groves, along with his world heavyweight champion David Haye, in what seemed like a strong partnership. "Hayemaker [the promotional company Booth runs with Haye] were the ones for me who did things a little different. I was very impressed with Adam Booth.

"When I went with him, I thought we were on the same wavelength. I told him I was interested in 20 fights, fighting journeymen, but in two years I want to be fighting for titles. He shared that idea. He looked at similar situations in David's career.

"Me and Adam had our ups and downs. Then [last year], he expressed the view he didn't want to work with me any more. If someone says they don't want to work with you, then take the hint. I think he did care when I lost to Froch, but things got out of hand before the fight. I thought he had breached his contract. I'm pretty sure if he was honest, he'd say the same thing. We went to a hearing with the British Boxing Board of Control, Adam carried on being my manager. Then, after the fight, we managed to maintain a friendship and he released me from the contract."

While it is considered one of the cardinal sins of boxing to look past your next opponent, Groves resolutely marches to his own beat. If he is still searching for ring-walk music, he could do worse than listen to a bit of Frank Sinatra. Few fighters are more suited to the lyrics of My Way.