The undisputed lightweight world title fight between champion Teofimo Lopez and Australia's George Kambosos Jr will now be held at a packed Miami stadium.
The date of the fight has changed from June 5 to June 19 (June 20 AEST) at IoanDepot Park, due to a change in stadium capacity rules amid the ongoing pandemic. Capacity will be lifted from 25 per cent to 100 per cent with the new date.
The card has also changed to add another world title unification fight, though the legends bout between Evander Holyfield and Kevin McBride has been pushed back to July. The co-main event on Kambosos' card is now women's WBC-WBO super middleweight champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn vs IBF-WBA champion Elin Cederroos.
Kambosos visited the stadium, home of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins, on Wednesday (AEST). The capacity, without added seating on the infield that will go around the boxing ring, is just under 37,000.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COv05u7rjfe/?utm_source=ig_embed&Kambosos trains out of Miami under Javiel Centeno. He will start as a heavy underdog against the man who conquered legend Vasiliy Lomachenko, yet is supremely confident of victory.
"The game plan's secret. I'm not going to put that out preparing for such a big fight but I see many holes in him," Kambosos previously told Wide World of Sports.
"He's a power puncher but you can't hit what you can't see. When you've got a power puncher but you've got a guy that's as fast as a light and can pack a punch, and can move and can be so sharp and not get hit, then we'll see what happens come fight night.
"I have a great team behind me, great coaches and the game plan is second to none. We're not going in there as an easy-beat, we're winning this fight."
He added in another interview: "There's a lot of risk in this fight, this is the biggest fight of my life. I know the risk but I'm so determined, my tunnel vision is so strong, I know what I bring to the table and I know I'm going to win this fight by any means necessary."
Kambosos is hard at work in his fight camp, as is Lopez. The Australian earned his shot as the IBF's mandatory challenger and the fight promises to be a quality battle of speed and angles.
Kambosos will get a $2.7 million cut of a $7.6 million purse for the fight, after Triller blew opposing bids out of the water. Lopez was previously promoted by Top Rank but the parties have fallen out over this fight, for which Bob Arum's organisation bid less than half the Triller sum.
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