NEW YORK – Undisputed light heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. made it clear on Tuesday that if middleweight champion Felix Trinidad wants to fight him, the bout should be no later than next January.

"It'll be January at the latest," Jones said on Tuesday. "I ain't waiting until spring. I'll be 33 years old.

"I ain't got all day to wait. If he doesn't want to fight I'll find someone else."

However, Jones also conceded that "possibly, someone could make it worth waiting until after January. I'm a businessman."

Jones then quipped that he would take on new heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman if the money were right.

The 44-1 Jones was in town to announce a July 28 fight against light-hitting Mexican Julio Gonzalez (27-0) in Los Angeles. Jones is about a 15-1 favorite to beat Gonzalez.

The subject of Trinidad came up after Trinidad, a former welterweight and super welterweight champion, successfully moved up to middleweight on Saturday by stopping William Joppy to win the World Boxing Association title.

Trinidad has said he wants to eventually fight Jones, considered pound-for-pound the best boxer in the world.

Jones said he would move down from 175 pounds (79 kg) to 168 pounds (76 kg) but definitely not to the 160-pound (72.5 kg) middleweight division to meet Trinidad.

Jones also said he would not go to Germany to take on Dariusz Michalczewski, the unbeaten light-heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Organization. That has been a matchup long proposed for Jones.

"I got nothing to prove over there. I live over here. Let him come over here. I don't know anybody over there," said Jones, who has said he does not believe he would be treated fairly by judges in Germany.

Jones also said he knew that Briton Lennox Lewis could be headed for trouble before he lost his titles to Rahman last month in South Africa.

Lewis trained for just two weeks at the high altitude site and Rahman knocked him out in the fifth round of their April 22 bout.

"You already got a suspect chin," Jones said about Lewis. "The right punch and he's going to sleep. C'mon man, everybody knew he was gonna lose."