Andre Ward keen on rematch with Carl Froch at Wembley Stadium

The WBA is ordering a second meeting between the two rivals three years after Ward outpointed Froch in December 2011 to claim the WBC and WBA titles in Atlantic City.

Ward has only fought twice since that meeting due to fitness and contract issues.

He is 27 fights unbeaten. Froch hasn't fought since he knocked out George Groves at Wembley last May, but has lost on points only twice in 35 fights - once to Ward and the other Mikkel Kessler, a fight he avenged with a points win in London two years ago.

He was keen to secure a fight with Julio César Chávez Jr in Las Vegas, but an elbow injury killed off the prospects of that fight.

“The UK is one thing, Nottingham is something different,” said Ward on Sky Sports.

“Now he’s saying: ‘Well, I came to America, now you need to come to Nottingham.’

"The thing is this: Atlantic City is thousands of miles away from my home. That’s a road fight, a six-hour plane ride for me.

"I’m not willing to come to Nottingham, I don’t think I should have to, but Wembley Stadium? The UK as a whole, I would love to come.”

Froch's promoter Eddie Hearn wants the fight in Nottingham in September.

“I said that we want it in Nottingham because Carl wants absolutely every advantage possible to fight Andre Ward," said Hearn.

"If he’s going to fight Andre Ward, now’s the time to do it – he’s been out for two years. I think he [Froch]will fight again in September, but if it’s not the right fight and it’s not for the right deal, he definitely won’t fight again."