Anthony Joshua insists he will do things his own way en-route to the top, stating every fight is imperative to his development.

The Watford-born 25-year-old has won each of his 11 professional bouts by knockout and has yet to be taken beyond the third round.

Tomorrow (Saturday) he will face another step-up in opponent as he faces experienced Brazilian heavyweight Raphael Zumbano Love (36-10-1) at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham.

It is the first of two fights for the former Finchley ABC fighter this month, with Kevin Johnson to come at the O2 Arena in Greenwich on Saturday, May 30.

For now though, the 6ft 6in puncher’s focus remains solely on extending his unbeaten record against Love.

“I will do things my way,” stated Joshua. “I have from the start and I will continue to do that. Everyone wants to fight me and I want to fight everyone, but I can’t fight them all at once, this is not WWE wrestling, this is boxing – we’ll do it at the right time and one at a time.

“There’s pressure on every fight so I just take it all in my stride as right now I am a prospect with nothing to defend.

“Early on in your career you rack them up one after the other. I’m not taking shots, I'm not going past three rounds and my hands aren’t hurt, so we’re fighting a lot.”

He added: “If I was in a slugfest or had a tough fight, we’d look at rest because that is important, but I am not at the moment.

“I have Saturday and May 30, and I’d like to think that I would have four more fights in 2015 – but you have to take things on a fight by fight basis.”

Joshua marked his return to the ring following a five-month lay-off with a stress fracture in his back with a third-round knockabout against American Jason Gavern in Newcastle last month.

And although the Olympic gold medalist was unimpressed with his own display against the 38-year-old from Virginia, he insists he is not putting pressure on himself to perform.

“The only pressure is from my coach, not from me,” he explained. “I came out of the ring against Gavern and thought ‘that was rubbish’ and he said that I’d done some good inside work that we had been working on in the gym and I had taken that into the ring.

“I am always being asked about fights that are coming down the line – that’s not pressure, that’s just that the team around me believe in me.”

Joshua continued: “I knew that after winning gold at 2012 I would be head-hunted in the amateurs as people would want to beat me. I was going to have to start at the bottom in the pros but there’s not that pressure and target of being the Olympic champion and staying in the amateurs where you are going to be a target.

“I had the determination and the heart but not necessarily the skillset to handle that.

“I feel like I have really developed and stuff that I was learning two or three years ago is starting to filter through but there’s still a few things to learn before I hit my peak.”