Wednesday 26 November 2014 11:15, UK
Kevin Mitchell will face Daniel Estrada for the WBC Silver lightweight title at the O2 in London on January 31.
Mitchell will be in action for the first time since May, when he was pushed to the limit by Canada's Ghislain Maduma at Wembley before eventually securing an 11th round stoppage.
He will face another tough exam against Estrada, whose last outing was a world title challenge against Omar Figueroa in Los Angeles, with promoter Eddie Hearn hopeful it will prove to be a final eliminator for a crack at the WBC belt.
"Mitchell vs. Estrada is a great fight," said Hearn. "I was ringside in Carson when he took on Figueroa for the WBC title and he put up a great fight.
"We have applied to the WBC to make this fight a final eliminator for the WBC title with the winner to face the winner of Jorge Linares vs. Javier Prieto and we will be pushing the request at the upcoming convention, I expect it to be successful. It's all part of a cracking line up at the O2."
The card will also include Anthony Joshua's first fight of 2015, which comes against former world title challenger Kevin 'Kingpin' Johnson.
Joshua extended his perfect professional record to 10 wins from 10 fights against Michael Sprott in Liverpool on Saturday but Johnson will be easily his toughest test so far.
He will make a big statement if he can quickly do away with an opponent who has taken Vitali Klitschko, Tyson Fury and Dereck Chisora the distance.
As well as those mouthwatering bouts, Islington middleweight John Ryder defends his WBO Inter-Continental middleweight title and there are two cracking domestic match-ups as Tommy Martin meets Ricky Boylan for the vacant English light-welterweight title and John Wayne Hibbert defends his WBC International light-welterweight title against Tyler Goodjohn.
