A group of businessmen, including Carss Park swim coach Dick Caine, are behind the moves to stage the spectacular bout, which would pit two of the sport's biggest sluggers against each other.

Even Khoder Nasser, manager of Anthony Mundine who Bika has unsuccessfully challenged over the years, has been contacted about helping promote the possible fight an open-air event at either Jubilee Stadium, Kogarah, or Toyota Stadium, Woolooware.

Briggs, the former light heavyweight world champion, is making a comeback to the ring and is understood to have in his sights IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green, who stopped American champion Roy Jones Jnr two months ago.

Bika, the Cameroon-born Australian nicknamed "the Scorpion,'' has offered himself as the lead-in, and is more than willing to move up from super middleweight to light heavyweight. However, if Bika won, his management would then push ahead for a match with Green, in a world champion versus world champion super fight.

Bika, 30, is the No. 1 challenger to eventually fight IBF world champion, Lucian Bute, of Romania, but since Bika's round one demolition last July of Nestor Fabian Casanova, of Argentina, opponent after opponent have pulled out of planned bouts.

The latest was Allan Green, of the US, last week, with Bika bypassed again for inclusion in the rich "Super Six Tournament'' which is supposed to include the best super middleweights in the world. Now Bika's trainer David Birchell, of Toe To Toe Gym at Kingsgrove, has Caine and a group of businessmen behind him, and hoping to make Briggs a substantial offer to fight Bika.

"Because Bika and Briggs are well known, the fight would not only attract great interest in Australia as a pay-per-view bout, it would sell overseas as well,'' said Birchell, who has Ryan Waters in his stable.

Bika has been sparring with Australian super middleweight champion Michael Bolling to keep in shape. He confirmed that despite his lack of fights he was not in any danger of losing his world title belt because no-one had come forward to challenge him.