A date has been set for boxer Chris Eubank Jr’s WBA super-middleweight title challenge against current champion George Groves.
The pair will battle it out on Saturday 17 February at the Manchester Arena in the semi-finals of the World Boxing Super Series.
Eubank, 28, won his chance to challenge the 29-year-old Londoner for his title when he beat the previously undefeated Turkish fighter Avni Yildirim in a WBSS quarter-final bout.
Hove-born Eubank stopped the young Turk in the third round of their fight in the German city of Stuttgart last month.
The WBSS has been described as the Champions League of boxing in two divisions – super-middleweight and cruiserweight.
The tournament has a prize fund of $50 million (about £38 million) with the two champions expected to have won about $10 million each from their three bouts by the end of next May.
Groves has been called Eubank’s most dangerous opponent so far but the prize is a respected world title against a super champion.
The Brighton boxer won his IBO super-middleweight world title in February, taking the belt from the Australian Renold Quinlan in 10 rounds.
Eubank has previously defended the IBO title from those critics who said that it wasn’t a real title.
Now he has a chance to win one that is universally accepted as legitimate.
