Katie Taylor will be back in the ring before the end of the summer after her promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed that she will fight on the undercard of the Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin bout.
Taylor's opponent has yet to be confirmed but the Bray native will be in action on 22 August as part of the Eddie Hearn/Matchroom Fight Camp series, which will take place in the grounds of Hearn’s home and will be shown live on Sky Sports.
While Hearn did not reveal the name of Taylor’s opponent, he did confirm that the undisputed lightweight champion will be putting her titles on the line.
Taylor, who also won the WBO junior-welterweight title last year, had agreed to fight seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano of Puerto Rico in May before the Covid-19 outbreak put paid to those plans.
Former world amateur silver medallist Jason Quigley (18-1) will also fight on the same bill as Taylor, against English middleweight Jack Cullen.
This is the third time a date has been announced for Whyte vs Povetkin, with the heavyweight fight twice falling victim to the pandemic.
Whyte defends his WBC interim world heavyweight title against Povetkin, with his WBC mandatory challenger status and fight with Tyson Fury also at risk.
Hearn is confident that it will be a case of third time lucky, and the card will be the culmination of four weeks of boxing shows run from Hearn's property, with fight cards on 1, 7 and 14 August.
Undefeated Kildare featherweight Eric Donovan (12-0) is part of the 14 August card and he will fight Commonwealth super-featherweight champion Zelfa Barrett over 10 rounds.
"We've of course got Madison Square Garden, this is Matchroom Square Garden," Hearn said of the unconventional venue.
"We've been working diligently with the British Boxing Board of Control for the last three months. We're in a position where we know the procedures that have to take place to make the sport safe to return.
"We feel like we've done it at the right time, we feel like everything's safe. We've got a brilliant schedule of fights lined up and we can't wait to bring boxing back to your screens.
"We have no crowd, we don't have the 80,000 singing 'Sweet Caroline' and have the energy of the audience but what we do have is the beauty of boxing, the rawness of the sport.
"We need to make sure those fights are compelling."
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