BOXING is in my blood and it’s in my nature, I’ve been fighting all of my life in and out of the ring, whether it was physically or mentally, to survive and because of where I came from. I have missed the adrenalin.



I realised I missed the punching, I missed the sweating and getting the toxins out. I missed being athletic all my life and then suddenly I just stopped and it was like, wow, after 10 months of not exercising it felt like rigor mortis was setting in.



I miss knocking people out, I miss the butterflies beforehand, I miss the competitive nature of the game. I have been working out for the last three weeks and I realised how good that makes you feel.



I am making a comeback, not just to finish on a win, but to win the heavyweight championship of the world. Looking back on Germany, Vitali Klitschko fought me for 12 rounds with one arm and he couldn’t knock me out. Don’t forget, this is one of the men with one of the greatest knockout ratios in heavyweight history. I feel it would be awful to live the rest of my life knowing that he couldn’t knock me down when I had one arm, and that I could have beaten him with two. Life is too short for regrets, I have to make the most of my time.



I don’t miss the lying, the cheating, the stealing. I don’t miss the fact that fighters are taken advantage of all the time. I don’t miss the business side of it at all. So I’ll be coming back under different circumstances. I will not be robbed and taken advantage of. Let’s not forget that, as it stands, I fought the Klitschko fight for zero money. To this day, I still don’t know what the payday was supposed to be.



With my new promoter, Garry Jonas, we’re going to do this right. He hasn’t got the bad heart that some of the guys I worked with recently have to the core. He’s a different guy, he’s a different person altogether.



I want to thank all the fans who have supported me throughout the last year and I’m looking forward to showing you all that I’m back and I’m even better than before.



We’re getting in shape, and we’re looking at launching again in December or January. I’m making my comeback and I’m going to be coming back with a boom. There’s going to be a lot of advantages to it. I’m going to be marketing the product Zivair, it’s my asthma product that got me through that fight. I was able to breathe.



Being able to breathe, and with a healthy strong arm, I’m back baby.



I showed that I wouldn’t quit. If you look at his next fight, he fought Odlanier Solis, and the guy lost in the first round and he made $1.7million. How is he making that money and Shannon Briggs isn’t paid? He gets knocked out in the first round, an undefeated young man, gone inside three minutes. It proves to me more and more when I look back on my fight with Vitali that there’s unfinished business.



I had him hurt in the 10th round. Klitschko buckled and he was ready to go! This was with one arm. I’ve got my desire back. I’m ready to embark on my mission, it’s not finished, I’m going to be heavyweight champion for the third time.



I needed my time away, I needed a break and I needed the right people to support me. I was under pressure financially and there were too many people looking to make a buck off me. Now I’m going to take it to another level.



I’m not about to jump out of the window and shout to everyone that I’m ready for a title shot now. I’ve had 10 months off working on other products, I have to be realistic. I need to take a couple of tune-ups, prove I’m ready and then if the Klitschkos are still around, and let’s face it, it looks like nobody is going to get in their way, I will do what I was originally supposed to do: Knock them out.



Shannon now works for online marketing company Acquinity Interactive and continues to support his revolutionary asthma medication ZIVAIR