Super-middleweight boxer George Groves has revealed he "wouldn't rule out" a potential switch to UFC later in his career.

The 27-year-old, whose most recent outing saw him stop Andrea Di Luisa inside five rounds in January, has several options open to him but is yet to confirm his next opponent.

But while speculation persists in regards to Groves' immediate future and a potential domestic clash with one of James DeGale, Callum Smith or Martin Murray, the Hammersmith-born fight is adamant he could consider switching sports altogether.

George Groves, speaking at the launch of EA SPORTS UFC 2, told Standard Sport: “I certainly wouldn’t rule it out [a move to UFC].

“I’d love to have a crack at it, but I’d want to give myself a proper go.

“I’d want to give a good account of myself. It wouldn’t be a quick thing.

“I’d dedicate some time to getting ready before I had my first fight.”

Groves already mixes up his current training regime with fighters from other disciplines and relishes the challenges which they pose to the familiar Queensberry rules school of thought.

“I do train from guys with MMA backgrounds, jiu jitsu, Greco wrestling.

"It's great exercise - it's fun. It's good to do something new and something a bit different.

"I'm keeping all my options open, getting a bit of wrestling in when I can and stuff like that.

"There's always kick boxers in the gym. Sometimes they make great boxing sparring partners because they have a different rhythm and a different style that you have to contend with," he added.

While Groves now counts himself as a certified UFC fan, the Londoner confesses to being a 'latecomer' to the sport, which has exploded in popularity in recent years.

“At the start it captured the imagination of my friends who were the most sadistic - they wanted to see blood, they wanted to see knock outs.

“But as the sport has grown everything has gone with it. The standard of the opposition has gone up, the level of competitions, and that is probably down to the fact that fighters are now earning really good money.

“They can afford proper training camps, sparring and everything else that goes with it."

Boxing is somewhat starved of major upsets when compared to UFC, whose fighters are rarely able to sidestep a challenge, and Groves is adamant the unexpected nature of MMA should be seen as a positive trait.

“There’s some stars emerging but where it’s still relatively new some of these stars are getting a little bit found out.

“Like [Conor] McGregor got beat. In boxing there’s great fighters who never get beat or there’s never a shock or an upset.

“So that’s an attribute to the sport more than anything else - you get behind a guy and you never know what’s going to happen.”

A career in UFC could be regarded as a pipe dream now but there would surely be plenty of British fans willing to get behind Saint George if he did ever enter the octagon.

George Groves took on the Finish the Fight Challenge to mark the launch of EA SPORTS UFC 2 . EA SPORTS UFC 2 is out now on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Find out more at easports.com/uk/ufc